For decades, scientists have used satellite data to assess the health and greenness of Earth’s vegetation. These data have influenced our understanding and decision-making on pressing issues from sustainable crop production to climate change. Plants that grow on land absorb…
BAERI’s Ryan Bennett, Program Manager of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) West, said farewell to 24 students last month as they presented their final research at the University of California, Irvine, on August 9–10. In this 8-week long internship program,…
BAERI’s Milan Loiacono wrote a terrific article on the 20th-anniversary celebration of the NASA Ames chapter of DEVELOP (Digital Earth Virtual Environment and Learning Outreach Program). The internship was brought to Ames in 2003 by BAERI Researcher Cindy Schmidt and her colleague Jay Skiles.…
Consider two philosophies around sharing data: Open Data vs. Data Sovereignty. Can these two ideologies coexist? BAERI researcher Sativa Cruz, a member of NASA’s Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative (IPI), talks about this and other matters involving rights over scientific data on…
Did you know that existing maps of Mars and the moon are currently more detailed than those of the seafloor on Earth? Ved Chirayath, a professor at University of Miami and a National Geographic Explorer, is leading a group of…
BAERI researcher Taylor Bell was part of the team that recently published a paper in Nature that shows the Earth-like exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b likely has no atmosphere. The study is significant in that the seven-planet TRAPPIST system has three planets…
On March 26th, 1993, our founder Robert Bergstrom signed the official paperwork to create the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. We’ll be celebrating BAERI’s 30th anniversary with 30 stories that highlight some of the most impactful work the Institute has…
A recent paper published by BAER Institute researcher Victoria Hartwick in Nature Astronomy shows the potential for wind turbines to help power future human exploration on the surface of Mars, a source of energy previously written off due to the…
A new paper published by BAER Institute alumna Kate Duffy in the October edition of Nature Climate Change reveals that it isn't just rising global temperatures that pose a risk to insects around the world—the fluctuations in temperature that accompany…
ARC-CREST (The NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative Research in Earth Science and Technology) is a 10-year, $137 million cooperative agreement awarded to BAER Institute in 2012 that has funded the work of over 70 research groups with four collaborating institutions.…