By Jane Berg and Tamara Enz June 6, 2025 What is the Internet of Animals? For thousands of years, people could only guess at the movements of animals once they were beyond where we could see and hear them directly. When…
BAERI’s Emma Yates is part of a small group of research scientists who look at air quality in the San Joaquin Valley. For their project “Ozone Where We Live” (OWWL), they are seeking citizen scientist volunteers on the ground and…
Last week, NASA’s FireSense project was featured on the TODAY show and NBC Nightly News.” The segments took place during a controlled burn at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and both featured BAERI’s Harrison Raine as subject matter expert. In interviews with…
Congratulations to Rama Nemani who recently co-authored a paper that analyzes satellite data to quantify how monsoon precipitation and groundwater pumping contributed to the greening of India’s Thar Desert from 2001–2023 and discusses resource planning for the future.
BAERI, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Lab and NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, recently completed the first test flights with a remarkable new navigation system called Soxnav. The system, using automated 3D steering guidance, aims to keep aircraft, at…
In the journals JGR: Planets and JGR: Machine Learning and Computation, BAERI Research Scientist Ariel Deutsch and a team of researchers have published two papers on Mercury’s hollows, “small, shallow, rimless depressions” on the planet’s surface. The ground-breaking studies classify…
February 24, 2025 Congratulations to Rama and his colleagues at Niruthi! Learn more here.
BAERI alumn Taylor Bell has contributed to a new study that rethinks the nature of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b, its surface and the existence of its atmosphere. The billion-year-old planet was thought to have a heavily weathered surface; however, the…
Lead author, BAERI’s Alejandro S. Borlaff, and a team of researchers devised image-analysis techniques that led to the discovery of a massive “tipped over” black hole. The group used archival data from several telescopes around the world, beginning with NASA’s…
by Jane Berg and Rachel Sender (A version of this piece was published previously on the nasa.gov site.) At the end of 2022, 65% of the western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two-decades-long megadrought in…