Every summer, dozens of rising seniors get hands-on experience collecting environmental data from research aircraft and field sites during NASA's Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). In addition to collecting data, SARP mentors teach students how to analyze and present their…
BAERI’s Savannah Cooley is lead author on a recent paper that quantifies the long-term thermal stress on forests in the Brazilian Amazon after fire, with effects lasting decades. Cooley and her co-authors found that fire-damaged forests in the Brazilian Amazon…
A new photo gallery by BAERI’s Milan Loiacono depicts a prescribed burn operation that took place in April at the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. The burn was conducted by the Department of Defense (DoD); its primary purpose was…
How do we determine accuracy of satellite observations taken from hundreds of miles above the Earth? In the case of the PACE satellite, verification of data is accomplished by collecting measurements much closer to the ground through projects like AirSHARP.PACE,…
First author and BAERI alumna Erica Luzzi, alongside co-authors that include BAERI’s Ariel Deutsch and Alexander Sehlke, have found evidence of near-surface ice on Mars, close to areas under consideration for potential future Mars landing sites. The team used high…
BAERI’s Emma Yates is part of a small group of research scientists who look at air quality in the San Joaquin Valley. For their project “Ozone Where We Live” (OWWL), they are seeking citizen scientist volunteers on the ground and…
Last week, NASA’s FireSense project was featured on the TODAY show and NBC Nightly News.” The segments took place during a controlled burn at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and both featured BAERI’s Harrison Raine as subject matter expert. In interviews with…
Congratulations to Rama Nemani who recently co-authored a paper that analyzes satellite data to quantify how monsoon precipitation and groundwater pumping contributed to the greening of India’s Thar Desert from 2001–2023 and discusses resource planning for the future.
BAERI, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Lab and NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, recently completed the first test flights with a remarkable new navigation system called Soxnav. The system, using automated 3D steering guidance, aims to keep aircraft, at…
In the journals JGR: Planets and JGR: Machine Learning and Computation, BAERI Research Scientist Ariel Deutsch and a team of researchers have published two papers on Mercury’s hollows, “small, shallow, rimless depressions” on the planet’s surface. The ground-breaking studies classify…