Dr. Tom Barclay of BAER Institute is the newest Director of the Kepler and K2 Mission Guest Observer Office. NASA’s Kepler Mission uses a satellite to look for Earth-sized or smaller planets that, like Earth, are within the ‘habitable zone’. …
Sreeja Nag, MIT graduate student in the AeroAstro Department and summer BAER Institute employee is the winner of the 22nd Annual Frank J. Redd Student Competition held at the Commerce of Small Satellites conference in Logan, UT, Aug. 2-7. This…
The work of BAER’s Susan Kulawik on NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO‑2) mission now enters a new stage with the launch of the OCO-2 satellite on July 2, 2014. The mission aims to provide scientists with new insight into the…
BAER Institute welcomes Margaret Williams as its new Associate Director of Research. Margaret comes to BAER from Impact Carbon, a non-profit organization that uses carbon finance to increase access to clean energy technologies in the developing world. Margaret served as…
Working with NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, a team of scientists, including BAER’s Thomas S. Barclay, have discovered a planet 500 light-years away that is 10% wider than Earth and could have a climate suitable for liquid water – and therefore life…
The Showtime television series “Years of Living Dangerously” premiered this month focusing on the role of greenhouse gases in global warming and the danger to the planet posed by rapid climate change. The series’ opening segment shows actor Harrison Ford’s…
On March 29, 2014, a team of scientists, including BAER's Dr. Lucia Kleint, obtained some of the highest resolution observations to date of an "X-class" solar flare, the largest and rarest type of such solar eruptions. Solar flares are classified…
NASA Ames Research Center reopened yesterday and the BAER employees who have offices and labs there returned yesterday afternoon. NASA is currently adjusting the schedules of field programs and satellite development that were affected by the 16 day shutdown.
BAER received a notice from NASA’s Shared Services Center today explaining that as October 1, “there are no longer appropriations for Federal Agencies, including NASA. As a result, all NASA installations are forced to shut down with limited exemptions for…
SEAC4RS (Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys) studies how summer storms interact with air pollution and smoke from forest fires to the climate. Convective storms can loft pollution and gases high into the…