Pamela Adelaide Wales
(Assistant Research Scientist)
| Email: | pamela.a.wales@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.3450 |
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| 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. "Atmospheric Constituent Data Assimilation in NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System.", Earth and Space Science, 13 (8): e2026EA005031 [10.1029/2026ea005031] [Journal Article/Letter]
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]