Emma Yates

Affiliation: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI) 

Branch: Atmospheric Science Branch (SGG)

Email: emma.l.yates@nasa.gov

Phone: 650-604-2237

Professional Biography

Dr. Emma Yates is a Research Scientist employed through the NASA Ames Cooperative for Research in Earth Science and Technology (ARC-CREST) and with Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI). 

Dr. Yates is part of the Trace Gas Group at NASA Ames. Her role focuses on development of instrumentation, laboratory testing, ground-based and airborne-based deployment, and analysis of atmospheric trace gas measurements. Dr Yates has a background in with both in-situ and remotely based instrumentation. Her research interests quantifying atmospheric emissions, transport pathways and impacts of greenhouse gases and atmospheric trace gas pollutants.  

Dr. Yates also serves as an Associate Program Manager for the NASA Earth Science Applied Sciences Equity and Environmental Justice Program. Providing science management support for work with Environmental Justice communities in the United States. 

Education

Ph.D., Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group, University of Bristol, U.K. 

M.Chem (Hons), Chemistry with Industrial Experience, Class I., School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, U.K. 

Research Interests

Emissions, transport and impacts of atmospheric trace gases

Awards & Others

NASA Group Achievement Award, Ames Railroad Valley experiment team (2012) 

Ames Honor Award Yuri’s Night and Education Day Team (2011) 

Select Publications

E.L. Yates et al., (2023) “An extensive database of trace gas and meteorological observations from the Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment (AJAX)” Earth System Science Data, 15, 2375-2389, doi: 10.5194/essd-15-2375-2023. 

E. L. Yates, et al., (2020) “The effect of an upwind non-attainment area on ozone in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains” Atmospheric Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117426. 

E. L. Yates, et al. (2017) “An assessment of ground-level and free-tropospheric ozone over California and Nevada”, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2016JD026266. 

E.L. Yates, et al. (2016) “Airborne measurements and emission estimates of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents from the 2013 California Yosemite Rim wildfire” Atmospheric Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.12.038. 

E.L. Yates, et al. (2015) “Characterizing the impacts of vertical transport and photochemical ozone production on an exceedance area.” Atmospheric Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.09.002. 

E.L. Yates, et al. (2013) “Airborne observations and modelling of springtime stratosphere-to-troposphere transport over California.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi: 10.5194/acp-13-12481-2013. 

E.L. Yates, et al. (2012) “Assessing the role of alkaline soils on the carbon cycle at a playa site.” Environmental Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s12665-012-2194-x.