By Ian Watsky Thirteen years, 15 aircraft, 968 flights, and nearly 5,000 flight hours: that’s the combined effort it took to monitor and collect data on Earth’s cryosphere, otherwise known as the frozen part of the planet. NASA’s Operation IceBridge…
By Jane Berg Logo embroidered into the seat covers on the DC-8 jetliner, also known as the Airborne Science Laboratory. Image: Jane Berg. Despite my noise-canceling headset, the whirring engines are still very loud as NASA’s Airborne Science Program plane…
By Rachel Sender A fire coral before and after bleaching. Bleaching has become more prevalent in coral reefs as global warming causes the oceans to warm. Image: XL Catlin Seaview Survey. A Daring Drone Delivery In 2019, over the waters…
Sue Tolley in Denali National Park, Alaska, March 2008. Image: Marilyn Vasques. In this year after Sue Tolley’s passing, we continue to remember and honor her nearly two decades with BAERI as a member of the NASA Earth Science Project…
BAERI researcher Taylor Bell has co-created a piece of open source software that is “an end-to-end pipeline designed for JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) time series observations.” In this episode of the JOSSCast: Open Source for Researchers podcast, Bell discusses…
At December’s 2023 AGU conference, one poster that has generated buzz…or squawks, analyzed the flights of great frigatebirds in the Pacific. The poster, with statistics analyzed and figures generated by BAERI’s Sepideh Khajehei, shows that the high-flying birds likely trace…
ARC-CREST (The NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative Research in Earth Science and Technology) is a five-year, $117 million cooperative agreement from NASA Ames Research Center to advance cutting-edge research in Earth science and technology. The agreement was originally awarded to…
This year, dozens of BAERI researchers will be involved in over 100 different AGU talks and poster sessions. The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world, will be held this year in…
In a comment published on November 29, 2023 in the journal Nature Microbiology, a research team including BAERI’s Claire Teitelbaum warns of climate change’s impacts on bird migration and highly pathogenic avian influenza.
By Jane Berg The first photo taken from space was captured by a rocket-borne camera launched from New Mexico in October 1946. It showed a grainy black-and-white image with clouds and a sharp horizontal line where the atmosphere ended and outer…