Dear BAER Employees, It is with great sadness that I have to report that Marion Williams, our Executive Director from 1995 to 2012, passed away January 6, 2019, after a long illness.Probably more than anyone else, Marion was responsible for…
For the first time, a numerical model has simulated the entire evolution of a solar flare. In these events, a huge amount of energy is released in several ways: thermal and magnetic energy, and kinetic energy in the form of energized…
Alan Li and Jarrett van den Bergh attended the National Convention for State Legislators (NCSL) held in Los Angeles, CA, July 30 – August 2, 2018. Li and van den Bergh presented their work on the NASA NeMO-Net project, a…
BAER Institute Research Scientist Darlene Lim has appeared in a number of articles about her work with NASA related to for future missions to Mars and other planets. Kilauea Eruptions and BASALT Dr. Lim, a geobiologist working with the Planetary…
The NASA Ames-based instrument 4STAR (Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research) team has formed a new partnership with the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) to integrate the instrument onto the Canadian airborne platform, Convair 580. BAER Institute Research Scientist Samuel…
BAER Institute scientist, Ann Marie Cody, is an avid runner and the mother of triplets. She‘s sometimes seen running through the NASA Ames campus at noon with her children strapped into a 3-seated stroller. On April 15, 2018, she broke…
Robert Comstock of Cal Poly San Luis Obsipo, and Sean Lam, University of Washington, have achieved the first simulations of an Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) aircraft that will support a variety of aerodynamic analyses in support of future science missions.…
Members of the National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC) recently returned from Ramstein, Germany, after supporting a joint research project with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Adam Webster (Mission Director), Kelly Edmond (Mission Director-in-training), Dave van Gilst (data system and Satcom…
BAER Institute's Dr. Irina Kitiashvili of the Heliophysics Modelling and Simulation Project at NASA Ames served as the primary convener of “Advances in Observations, Data-Constrained Modeling, and Predictions of Solar Activity from the Deep Interior to the Corona” at the…
This past summer, thirty-two undergraduate students completed a NASA summer internship designed to provide them with an airborne Earth science research experience. The NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is run by the National Suborbital Research Center at the BAER…