The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world, will be held this year in Chicago and online everywhere from December 12-16, 2022. BAER Institute scientists will be involved in over 50 different…
BAER Institute researchers Jennifer Kenworthy and Kristina Pistone were awarded NASA Ames Honors Awards earlier this month. Kenworthy is being recognized for "outstanding support to the entire Earth Science Division as researchers return to Ames and field deployments internationally, while…
An article highlighting the students of SaSa (NASA's Student Science Activation Program) was published to the NASA Earth Expeditions blog last week. SaSa is a new NASA program at work to diversify the field of geoscience by engaging rising sophomore…
A paper featuring Vanessa Polito's work on solar flares was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy. Polito is a co-author on the study, which is a collaboration with lead author Chengcai Shen of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA),…
Over 25 BAERI and NASA Ames Science Directorate researchers presented in person or virtually at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA., December 13-17, 2021. AGU is the leading forum for advancing Earth and space science…
On December 1st, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris chaired the Biden administration's first meeting of the National Space Council. Biden’s Space Council is the largest in history — new members include Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Agriculture…
Citizen science projects are nothing new for BAERI researchers, whether it's teaching the public to identify transiting exoplanets (Planet Hunters Coffee Chat), or building an iPad game that helps classify the world's coral reefs (NeMO-Net). We can now add one…