Pamela Adelaide Wales
(Assistant Research Scientist)
| Email: | pamela.a.wales@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.3450 |
| Org Code: | 610.1 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610.1 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | MORGAN STATE UNIV. |
Brief Bio
I am a GESTAR II Assistant Research Scientist at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO). I am a developer for the GEOS Composition Forecast (GEOS-CF) modeling system, a member of the GEOS Composition Reanalysis team, and a GMAO liaison to the Chemistry Climate Modeling group at GSFC. After receiving my Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, I joined the GMAO in 2019 as a NASA postdoctoral fellow before transitioning to my position as a GESTAR research scientist.
Positions/Employment
Assistant Research Scientist
Morgan State University - Baltimore, MD
December 2021 - Present
Associate Scientist
Universities Space Research Association - Columbia, MD
January 2021 - December 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow
NASA Postdoctoral Program - Greenbelt, MD
January 2019 - January 2021
Education
PhD in Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park (2019). Dissertation title: Evaluating the Stratospheric Injection of Brominated Very Short-Lived Substances and Inorganic Chlorine in the Lower Stratosphere
B.A. in Chemistry and Mathematics, College of Wooster (2011).
Publications
Refereed
2026. "A Survey of Applications of the NASA GEOS-CF Global Atmospheric Composition Forecasts: Case Studies for NASA Open Data and Earth Science to Action .", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 107 (2): E222–E238 [10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0131.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "A Fire‐Driven Shift in Canadian Air Quality Concerns Mirrors Trends in the US.", Earth's Future, 13 (12): e2025EF007041 [10.1029/2025ef007041] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Stratospheric Water Vapor Beyond NASA's Aura MLS: Assimilating SAGE III/ISS Profiles for a Continued Climate Record.", Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (8): [10.1029/2024gl112610] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Application of Satellite‐Based Detections of Arctic Bromine Explosion Events Within GEOS‐Chem.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15 (8): [10.1029/2022ms003465] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "M2‐SCREAM: A Stratospheric Composition Reanalysis of Aura MLS Data With MERRA‐2 Transport.", Earth and Space Science, 10 (2): e2022EA002632 [10.1029/2022ea002632] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "NASA GEOS Composition Forecast Modeling System GEOS‐CF v1.0: Stratospheric composition.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14 (e2021MS002852): [10.1029/2021ms002852] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Description of the NASA GEOS Composition Forecast Modeling System GEOS‐CF v1.0.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13 (4): [10.1029/2020ms002413] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Intercomparison Between Surrogate, Explicit, and Full Treatments of VSL Bromine Chemistry Within the CAM‐Chem Chemistry‐Climate Model.", Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (4): [10.1029/2020gl091125] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Evaluation of the Stratospheric and Tropospheric Bromine Burden over Fairbanks, Alaska Based on Column Retrievals of Bromine Monoxide.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126 (2): e2020JD032896 [10.1029/2020jd032896] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Link Between Arctic Tropospheric BrO Explosion Observed From Space and Sea-Salt Aerosols From Blowing Snow Investigated Using Ozone Monitoring Instrument BrO Data and GEOS-5 Data Assimilation System.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123 [10.1029/2017jd026889] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Stratospheric Injection of Brominated Very Short-Lived Substances: Aircraft Observations in the Western Pacific and Representation in Global Models.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, [10.1029/2017jd027978] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "BrO and inferred Br<sub><i>y</i></sub> profiles over the western Pacific: relevance of inorganic bromine sources and a Br<sub><i>y</i></sub> minimum in the aged tropical tropopause layer.", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17 (24): 15245-15270 [10.5194/acp-17-15245-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Airborne measurements of BrO and the sum of HOBr and Br2 over the Tropical West Pacific from 1 to 15 km during the CONvective TRansport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) experiment.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, [10.1002/2016jd025561] [Journal Article/Letter]