Claire Teitelbaum Quoted in Reuters Article on Bird Flu
In a recent Reuters article, BAERI Postdoctoral Researcher Claire Teitelbaum offered insight into the relationship between bird migration and avian flu.
Congrats, Taylor Bell!
Congratulations to BAERI’s Taylor Bell for being named one of NASA Ames Science Directorate’s Stars of the Month for June 2024!
New Plain-Language Earth Science Series on NASA Website
BAERI’s Katera Lee has launched a new series on the NASA website called “What Is…?” This group of plain-language articles is intended to promote accessibility and understanding of Earth science concepts. The first piece (linked here) focuses on Earth’s atmosphere.Stay…
Ju-Mee Ryoo Receives Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award
We are proud to announce that BAERI’s Ju-Mee Ryoo has received a prestigious Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award “for seminal research leading to a key discovery highlighting the coupling between atmospheric rivers and wildfire potential.” Congratulations to Ju-Mee on this achievement!
Science News Covers BAERI Heliophysicist’s Work on “Campfires”
As reported in a recent Science News story, BAERI heliophysicist Navdeep Panesar is working on understanding the mechanisms that lead to pint-size eruptions on the Sun known as “campfires.”
Team Uses JWST Data to Map Weather on Distant Exoplanet
A team of researchers has interpreted data from the James Webb Space Telescope in order to map weather conditions on WASP-43b, an exoplanet 283 light-years away from Earth. BAERI’s Taylor Bell, lead author of a study published in the journal…
The Airborne Science Laboratory’s Swan Song
After 37 years and 158 data-collecting missions, NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory flies for the final time on May 15th. The DC-8 featured prominently in the climate-study efforts of the National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC), a collaboration between NASA’s Ames…
FireSage Gets Award from NASA’s Bridge Program
NASA’s Bridge Seed program, whose goal is “to develop sustainable partnerships among institutions historically under-resourced by NASA,” recently awarded one of its first 11 awards to the FireSage project. FireSage is a collaboration between San José State University’s Wildfire Interdisciplinary…
Taylor Bell Talks Open Source Software for JWST
BAERI researcher Taylor Bell has co-created a piece of open source software that is “an end-to-end pipeline designed for JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) time series observations.” In this episode of the JOSSCast: Open Source for Researchers podcast, Bell discusses…
Great Frigatebirds and the Planetary Boundary Layer
At December’s 2023 AGU conference, one poster that has generated buzz…or squawks, analyzed the flights of great frigatebirds in the Pacific. The poster, with statistics analyzed and figures generated by BAERI’s Sepideh Khajehei, shows that the high-flying birds likely trace…