Yasuko Yoshida, Research Associate

GEST Research Group:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics

GSFC Code:

613.3

Mailing Address:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch
Building 33, Room E314
NASA GSFC, Code 613.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6009

Email:

yasuko.yoshida-1@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

The Global Modeling Initiative (GMI) working group has developed a combined stratospheric-tropospheric chemistry and transport model (CTM) to be used for assessment of the impact of various natural and anthropogenic emissions on atmospheric composition and chemistry. I am using the GMI CTM to understand the sensitivity of surface ozone, long-range transport, and cross-tropopause transport of anthropogenic pollutants to two sets of meteorological fields used to drive transport in the CTM.

Biography:

Dr. Yasuko Yoshida received her degree of Bachelor of Arts in Science Education from Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Japan, in 1992. She obtained a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 2001. She received her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in 2006. Her Ph.D. thesis was a study of the global sources and distribution of atmospheric methyl chloride (CH3Cl) using a global chemistry and transport model (CTM). In August 2006, she started work as a research scientist at GEST, UMBC. She is currently studying the chemistry and transport of trace gases (e.g. carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide etc.) in the troposphere using the NASA GMI CTM and measurements from aircraft and satellites.