BAERI’s Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla (Pardha) (first author) and his co-authors have received the first place 2026 Esri Award in the category Best Scientific Paper in GIS. They were recognized for their work, “Landsat-derived rainfed and irrigated-area product for Conterminous United States…
We are pleased to share that a number of current and former BAERI folk have been selected for 2025 Ames Honor Awards in several categories, including:Best First Paper—Kristen Okorn, PhD (“An overview of outdoor low-cost gas-phase air quality sensor deployments:…
A team of researchers, including BAERI alumnus Michel Nuevo, analyzed the oldest organics in samples retrieved from the asteroid Bennu during the 2024 OSIRIS-REx mission. Their paper, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows how molecules that are thought to…
The 106th American Meteorological Society annual meeting is taking place from January 25– 29, 2026 both online and in-person in Houston, TX. Here is this year's schedule of talks and poster presentations that involve BAERI researchers.
The NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Newsletter has arrived! The first issue of the newsletter was published in December, and among its editors are BAERI’s Lora Jovanovic and Partha Bera. Each quarterly issue will be based on a single theme within the…
The MASTER instrument (the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator), which is supported/calibrated by the Airborne Sensor Facility (a group made up entirely of BAERI employees), is uniquely calibrated to capture imagery and temperature information of wildfires. As part of the GEMx project,…
Congratulations to BAERI’s Pratima K C, PhD, winner of the recently announced 2024 Best PhD Thesis Award, Remote Sensing from MDPI. In her thesis, K C develops a structure to use remote sensing to model and monitor forest conditions to…
BAERI’s Alex Borlaff is lead author of this study in Nature, which is causing quite a stir. In the paper, Borlaff and his team model, analyze, and discuss the light interference that would affect space and ground telescopes as the…
A team of researchers, led by Savannah Cooley, examined what happens when farmland returns to its natural state as forest or savanna. Unlike previous studies that focused mainly on carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption, Cooley's team analyzed a more complete picture:…
BAERI’s Ju-Mee Ryoo and a team of research scientists used 10 years of Global Precipitation Management data to investigate how precipitation systems are linked to Atmospheric rivers. Their findings, described in Geophysical Research Letters, can lead to improvement in the predictions of extreme rainfall.