“What is the role of irrigation as a human land management practice in the observed greening patterns in Indian croplands?” This is the question investigated in an article by BAERI’s Taejin Park and Ramakrishna (Rama) Nemani in collaboration with a…
BAERI’s Taylor Bell and a team of researchers have identified the presence of methane in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-80b, a Jupiter-sized planet 163 light years away from Earth. Data from the James Webb Space Telescope enabled this discovery. Bell and…
BAERI’s Taejin Park has been recognized with a 2023 NASA Ames Honor Award. Considering how often he has appeared on our LinkedIn feed, this honor should come as no surprise! In addition to his significant contributions to many, many climate-change related research…
BAERI’s Taejin Park was among the contributors to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society‘s “State of the Climate in 2022“ report. This annual peer-reviewed publication has been collecting and publishing research from hundreds of scientists for almost 30 years. The report…
Congrats to BAERI alumn Luis F.A. Teodoro and his team for their work on modeling the formation of Saturn’s rings and the resulting discovery of their surprising newness. Favorite quote from the New York Times article about their paper: “I’m sure it…
Cheers to BAERI's Kristina Pistone for last night's KTVU news interview in support of California's transition from diesel to electric buses. You can watch that interview and read the article here.
BAERI’s Ryan Bennett, Program Manager of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) West, said farewell to 24 students last month as they presented their final research at the University of California, Irvine, on August 9–10. In this 8-week long internship program,…
BAERI’s Milan Loiacono wrote a terrific article on the 20th-anniversary celebration of the NASA Ames chapter of DEVELOP (Digital Earth Virtual Environment and Learning Outreach Program). The internship was brought to Ames in 2003 by BAERI Researcher Cindy Schmidt and her colleague Jay Skiles.…
Consider two philosophies around sharing data: Open Data vs. Data Sovereignty. Can these two ideologies coexist? BAERI researcher Sativa Cruz, a member of NASA’s Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative (IPI), talks about this and other matters involving rights over scientific data on…
Did you know that existing maps of Mars and the moon are currently more detailed than those of the seafloor on Earth? Ved Chirayath, a professor at University of Miami and a National Geographic Explorer, is leading a group of…