Glenn M Wolfe
(Rsch AST, Atmospheric Chemistry & Dyn)
| Email: | glenn.m.wolfe@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6008 |
| Org Code: | 614 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 614 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Missions & Projects
Brief Bio
Glenn has worked at NASA GSFC since October 2012. He is a member of the 614 In Situ Observations Laboratory, which supports NASA Earth Science objectives with measurements of trace gases (formaldehyde, ozone, NO2, and other gases) on multiple airborne platforms. He has participated in numerous airborne missions, including PEGASOS, SENEX, SEAC4RS, CONTRAST, WINTER, SONGNEX, KORUS-AQ, CARAFE, OWLETS, ATom, FIREX-AQ, BlueFlux, ACCLIP, GOTHAAM, and AEROMMA. He is a regular participant in the NASA student airborne research program (SARP).
Glenn's research involves novel applications of airborne observations, including 1) quantifying surface-atmosphere exchange to understand the source and sinks of trace gases, 2) synthesis of airborne and satellite observations to constrain global atmospheric chemical processes, and 3) analysis of interconnected chemical systems through numerical modeling. Glenn is the maintainer of the Framework for 0-D Atmospheric Modeling (https://github.com/AirChem/F0AM), a widely-used software package for simulating atmospheric chemistry. A full list of publications can be found here.
Prior to arriving at NASA, Glenn was a NOAA CGC Post-doctoral fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Washington. He is also an Eagle Scout.
Positions/Employment
Research Physical Scientist
NASA GSFC - Greenbelt, MD
November 2020 - Present
Research Associate Professor
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology - Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Lab, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
July 2019 - October 2020
Research Assistant Professor
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology - Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Lab, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
March 2014 - June 2019
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology - Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Lab, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
October 2012 - March 2014
Awards
2017 NASA GSFC 610AT Award for “Outstanding Performance: Field Campaign Support”
2011 Invited participant, Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XI); Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference
2010-2012 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow
2009-2010 EPA STAR Fellow
2005-2008 NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow
2004-2005 Ringold Fellow, University of Washington Department of Chemistry
2004 Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society inductee
2003 Martin and Mary Kilpatrick Prize in Chemistry, JHU Chemistry Department
2003 Howard Hughes Summer Research Fellow
2002 Howard Hughes Summer Research Fellow
1998 Eagle Scout
Current Projects
ACCLIP
Atmospheric Chemistry
https://espo.nasa.gov/acclip/content/ACCLIP
BlueFlux
Carbon Cycle
https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php/acd/campaigns/nasa-carbon-monitoring-system-blueflux
GOTHAAM
Atmospheric Chemistry
https://gothaam.science/
AEROMMA
Atmospheric Chemistry
https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/aeromma/
Professional Service
Co-Editor, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Peer Reviewer for that paper you wrote
Special Experience
Field Campaigns:
2019 FIREX-AQ: Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments Experiment - Air Quality
2018 SARP: Student Airborne Research Program
2018 ATom 4: Atmospheric Tomography Mission (Spring)
2017 ATom 3: Atmospheric Tomography Mission (Fall)
2017 OWLETS: Ozone Water-Land Environmental Transition Study
2017 SARP: Student Airborne Research Program
2017 CARAFE-CMS: Carbon Monitoring System
2017 ATom 2: Atmospheric Tomography Mission (Winter)
2016 CARAFE: Carbon Airborne Flux Experiment
2016 ATom 1: Atmospheric Tomography Mission (Summer)
2016 KORUS-AQ: Korea U.S. Air Quality Study
2015 SONGNEX: Shale Oil and Natural Gas Nexus
2015 WINTER: Wintertime Investigation of Transport, Emission, and Reactivity
2014 CONTRAST: Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics
2013 SEAC4RS: Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys
2013 SOAS: Southern Oxidants and Aerosols Study
2013 SENEX: Southeast Nexus
2012 PEGASOS: Pan-European Gas-Aerosols Climate Interaction Study
2009 BEARPEX-II: Biosphere Effects on Aerosols and Photochemistry Experiment II
2009 ACCRONIM: Activation of Continental Chloride by Reactive Oxides of Nitrogen in Wintertime
2007 BEARPEX-I: Biosphere Effects on Aerosols and Photochemistry Experiment I
2006 INTEX-B: Intercontinental Transport Experiment – B
Selected Publications
Refereed
2026. "Compounded effects on wetland greenhouse gas fluxes from climate change and water management along a saline to freshwater gradient.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 (8): e2513685123 [10.1073/pnas.2513685123] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Validation of formaldehyde products from three satellite retrievals (OMI SAO, OMPS-NPP SAO, and OMI BIRA) in the marine atmosphere with four seasons of Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) aircraft observations.", Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 18 (1): 1-16 [10.5194/amt-18-1-2025] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Assessment of Landscape‐Scale Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide and Methane in Subtropical Coastal Wetlands of South Florida.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129 (11): [10.1029/2024jg008165] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Sources of Formaldehyde in U.S. Oil and Gas Production Regions.", ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 7 (12): 2444-2457 [10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00203] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "An observation-based, reduced-form model for oxidation in the remote marine troposphere.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (34): [10.1073/pnas.2209735120] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Multi-scale observations of mangrove blue carbon ecosystem fluxes: The NASA Carbon Monitoring System BlueFlux field campaign.", Environmental Research Letters, 18 075009 [10.1088/1748-9326/acdae6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Photochemical evolution of the 2013 California Rim Fire: synergistic impacts of reactive hydrocarbons and enhanced oxidants.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22 (6): 4253-4275 [10.5194/acp-22-4253-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Formaldehyde evolution in US wildfire plumes during the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality experiment (FIREX-AQ).", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21 (24): 18319-18331 [10.5194/acp-21-18319-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Rapid cloud removal of dimethyl sulfide oxidation products limits SO2 and cloud condensation nuclei production in the marine atmosphere.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (42): e2110472118 [10.1073/pnas.2110472118] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Evolution of formaldehyde (HCHO) in a plume originating from a petrochemical industry and its volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission rate estimation.", Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9 (1): [10.1525/elementa.2021.00015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Spatial and temporal variability in the hydroxyl (OH) radical: understanding the role of large-scale climate features and their influence on OH through its dynamical and photochemical drivers.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21 (8): 6481-6508 [10.5194/acp-21-6481-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Validation of satellite formaldehyde (HCHO) retrievals using observations from 12 aircraft campaigns.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20 (20): 12329-12345 [10.5194/acp-20-12329-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Spatial heterogeneity in CO2, CH4, and energy fluxes: insights from airborne eddy covariance measurements over the Mid-Atlantic region.", Environmental Research Letters, 15 (3): 035008 [10.1088/1748-9326/ab7391] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "A machine learning examination of hydroxyl radical differences among model simulations for CCMI-1.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20 (3): 1341-1361 [10.5194/acp-20-1341-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Hydrocarbon Removal in Power Plant Plumes Shows Nitrogen Oxide Dependence of Hydroxyl Radicals.", Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (13): 7752-7760 [10.1029/2019gl083044] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Mapping hydroxyl variability throughout the global remote troposphere via synthesis of airborne and satellite formaldehyde observations.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (23): 11171-11180 [10.1073/pnas.1821661116] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Towards a satellite formaldehyde – in situ hybrid estimate for organic aerosol abundance.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19 (5): 2765-2785 [10.5194/acp-19-2765-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The NASA Carbon Airborne Flux Experiment (CARAFE): instrumentation and methodology.", Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11 (3): 1757-1776 [10.5194/amt-11-1757-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "A new non-resonant laser-induced fluorescence instrument for the airborne in situ measurement of formaldehyde.", Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10 (12): 4833-4844 [10.5194/amt-10-4833-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Formaldehyde in the Tropical Western Pacific: Chemical sources and sinks, convective transport, and representation in CAM-Chem and the CCMI models.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, [10.1002/2016jd026121] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Impact of evolving isoprene mechanisms on simulated formaldehyde: An inter-comparison supported by in situ observations from SENEX.", Atmospheric Environment, 164 325-336 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.05.049] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "The Framework for 0-D Atmospheric Modeling (F0AM) v3.1.", Geoscientific Model Development, 9 (9): 3309-3319 [10.5194/gmd-9-3309-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "An observationally constrained evaluation of the oxidative capacity in the tropical western Pacific troposphere.", J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121 (12): 7461–7488 [10.1002/2016jd025067] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Formaldehyde production from isoprene oxidation across NOx regimes.", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16 (4): 2597-2610 [10.5194/acp-16-2597-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "A pervasive role for biomass burning in tropical high ozone/low water structures.", Nat Comms, 7 10267 [10.1038/ncomms10267] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Quantifying sources and sinks of reactive gases in the lower atmosphere using airborne flux observations.", Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (19): 8231-8240 [10.1002/2015gl065839] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Reassessing the ratio of glyoxal to formaldehyde as an indicator of hydrocarbon precursor speciation.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15 7571-7583 [10.5194/acp-15-7571-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Airborne measurements of the atmospheric emissions from a fuel ethanol refinery.", J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120 4385–4397 [10.1002/2015JD023138] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "A new airborne laser-induced fluorescence instrument for in situ detection of formaldehyde throughout the troposphere and lower stratosphere.", Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8 541-552 [10.5194/amt-8-541-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Photolysis, OH reactivity and ozone reactivity of a proxy for isoprene-derived hydroperoxyenals (HPALDs).", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14 (20): 7276 [10.1039/c2cp40388a] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2025. "BlueFlux: Modeled Daily CO2 and CH4 Wetland Fluxes, Southern Florida, 2000-2024.", Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, [https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2404] [Dataset]