The work of BAER's Sreeja Nag was a recent focus of MIT news: “A team of small, shoebox-sized satellites, flying in formation around the Earth, could estimate the planet’s reflected energy with twice the accuracy of traditional monolith satellites, according…
NASA has awarded BAER scientist Dr. Eduardo Bendek its Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal. The award recognizes two unique technologies Dr. Bendek developed to enhance direct imaging used in exoplanet characterization. The Medal is one of NASA’s “most prestigious honor awards … approved by the…
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX): Big Data Challenges, High-Performance Computing, and Machine Learning Innovations BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | September 25, 2016 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley Speaker: Sangram Ganguly, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for…
BAER Scientists Dr. Partha P. Bera and Dr. Gustavo Cruz-Diaz participated in the Chickasaw Nation Aeronautics and Space Academy’s Science Technology Math (STEM) Camp on the 7th and 8th of June, 2016 at Ada, Oklahoma. The camp was comprised of…
BAER and NASA Ames Research Center’s Dr. Darlene Lim will explain her research related to NASA’s potential mission to Mars at a Community Day to be held at the Craters of the Moon National Monument near Arco, Idaho on Thursday,…
BAER Staff, working with NASA’s Earth Science Project Office, have laid the groundwork for a series of pioneering flights over the Korean Peninsula as part of the Korea-U.S. Air Quality Experiment (KORUS-AQ). This study hopes to compare air quality models…
The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world begins Sunday, December 13, 2015 in San Francisco, California. BAERI will be well represented, with our scientists involved in over 60 presentations. See the…
Dr. Emma Yates of BAER has begun analyzing atmospheric data collected this spring and summer by the Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment (AJAX). The AJAX project, which has supported NASA Earth Science objectives since 2011, measured ozone and greenhouse gas concentrations…
BAER Institute’s President, Dr. Robert Bergstrom, has received the Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Award from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. The award “recognizes alumni who have demonstrated excellence in industry, academia, governmental service, or other endeavors related to…
BAER’s Cecelia Chang recently returned from Houston where she participated in the "Volcano-plume Investigation Readiness and Gas-phase and Aerosol Sulfur" (VIRGAS) field experiment. The experiment primarily tested a new NOAA instrument designed to study sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from volcanoes.…