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…
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…
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…
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…
ARC-CREST (The NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative Research in Earth Science and Technology) is a five-year, $117 million cooperative agreement from NASA Ames Research Center to advance cutting-edge research in Earth science and technology. The agreement was originally awarded to…
This year, dozens of BAERI researchers will be involved in over 100 different AGU talks and poster sessions. The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world, will be held this year in…
In a comment published on November 29, 2023 in the journal Nature Microbiology, a research team including BAERI’s Claire Teitelbaum warns of climate change’s impacts on bird migration and highly pathogenic avian influenza.
“What is the role of irrigation as a human land management practice in the observed greening patterns in Indian croplands?” This is the question investigated in an article by BAERI’s Taejin Park and Ramakrishna (Rama) Nemani in collaboration with a…
BAERI’s Taylor Bell and a team of researchers have identified the presence of methane in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-80b, a Jupiter-sized planet 163 light years away from Earth. Data from the James Webb Space Telescope enabled this discovery. Bell and…
November 3, 2023 Moffett Field, CA—The Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI), in partnership with California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and San José State University (SJSU), has been awarded a five-year, $117 million cooperative agreement from NASA Ames Research…