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…
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.…
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…
