Dr. Kyle N. Crabtree

Professional Information

Tenure: April 2007 - August 2012
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2012
B.S., Ball State University, 2006

kncrabtree@ucdavis.edu

Bio

I was born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, where I graduated from Benjamin Bosse High School in 2003. I received my B.S. in Chemistry from Ball State University in December 2006. During my time at Ball State, I worked in the research group of Dr. James Poole, and studied the kinetics and photochemistry of azidopyridine-N-oxide molecules.

I was a member of the McCall group from 2007-2012, primarily studying the nuclear spin dependence of reactions involving H₃⁺. In my final year at Illinois, I was awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for developing new spectroscopic techniques for highly accurate and precise sub-Doppler spectroscopy of molecular ions in the mid-infrared. After completing my Ph.D. studies, I received a CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Papers

12	K. N. Crabtree and B. J. McCall "On the Symmetry and Degeneracy of H₃⁺" Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2013), 117, 9950-9958.
11	K. N. Crabtree, J. N. Hodges, B. M. Siller, A. J. Perry, J. E. Kelly, P. A. Jenkins II, and B. J. McCall "Sub-Doppler Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions" Chemical Physics Letters (2012), 551, 1-6.
10	F. Grussie, M. H. Berg, K. N. Crabtree, S. Gärtner, B. J. McCall, S. Schlemmer, A. Wolf, and H. Kreckel "The Low-Temperature Nuclear Spin Equilibrium of H₃⁺ in Collisions With H₂" Astrophysical Journal (2012), 759, 21.
9	K. N. Crabtree and B. J. McCall "The ortho:para ratio of H₃⁺ in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (2012), 370, 5055-5065.
8	H. Kreckel, A. Petrignani, O. Novotný, K. Crabtree, H. Buhr, B. J. McCall, and A. Wolf "Storage ring measurements of the dissociative recombination of H₃⁺" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (2012), 370, 5088-5100.
7	K. N. Crabtree, B. A. Tom and B. J. McCall "Nuclear Spin Dependence of the Reaction of H₃⁺ with H₂. I. Kinetics and Modeling" Journal of Chemical Physics (2011), 134, 194310.
6	K. N. Crabtree, C. A. Kauffman, B. A. Tom, E. Beçka, B. A. McGuire and B. J. McCall "Nuclear Spin Dependence of the Reaction of H₃⁺ with H₂. II. Experimental Measurements" Journal of Chemical Physics (2011), 134, 194311.
5	K. N. Crabtree, N. Indriolo, H. Kreckel, B. A. Tom and B. J. McCall "On the Ortho:Para Ratio of H₃⁺ in Diffuse Molecular Clouds" Astrophysical Journal (2011), 729, 15.
4	H. Kreckel, O. Novotny, K. N. Crabtree, H. Buhr, A. Petrignani, B. A. Tom, R. D. Thomas, M. H. Berg, D. Bing, M. Grieser, C. Krantz, M. Lestinsky, M. B. Mendes, C. Nordhorn, R. Repnow, J. Stuetzel, A. Wolf and B. J. McCall "High-Resolution Storage-Ring Measurements of the Dissociative Recombination of H₃⁺ Using a Supersonic Expansion Ion Source" Physical Review A (2010), 82, 042715.
3	K. N. Crabtree, C. A. Kauffman and B. J. McCall "A Modular and Robust Continuous Supersonic Expansion Discharge Source" Review of Scientific Instruments (2010), 81, 086103.
2	B. A. Tom, A. A. Mills, M. B. Wiczer, K. N. Crabtree and B. J. McCall "Development and Characterization of a Source of Rotationally Cold, Enriched para-H₃⁺" Journal of Chemical Physics (2010), 132, 081103.
1	B. A. Tom, V. Zhaunerchyk, M. B. Wiczer, A. A. Mills, K. N. Crabtree, M. Kaminska, W. D. Geppert, M. Hamberg, M. af Ugglas, E. Vigren, W. J. van der Zande, M. Larsson, R. D. Thomas, and B. J. McCall "Dissociative Recombination of Highly Enriched Para-H₃⁺" Journal of Chemical Physics (2009), 130, 031101.

Proceedings

1	K. N. Crabtree, N. Indriolo, H. Kreckel and B. J. McCall "The ortho:para ratio of H₃⁺ in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas" Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, AIP Conference Proceedings