We interviewed Christina Hedges, an astronomer and scientist working on NASA’s Kepler/K2 space telescope mission. Kepler launched in 2009, and its mission was to search for planets around other stars. Losing two out of four reaction wheels on the telescope…
We’re excited to debut a new feature to our website, “The Women of BAERI.” In promoting STEM education to all young students, women in science and engineering are the best examples of inspiration and motivation for girls and young women…
AnnMarie Cody, BAERI Research Scientist in the Kepler/K2 Mission, competed in the 36th Wildflower Run held in Morgan Hill, CA, on March 31. With her triplets in their 3-seat stroller in front, she set a new Guinness Book world record…
The work of Senior Research Scientist Darlene Lim and her colleagues is the subject of a special issue of Astobiology, a peer-reviewed journal for evolution and life’s origins research. For the last 4 years, the Biologic Analog Science Associated with…
Dear BAER Employees, It is with great sadness that I have to report that Marion Williams, our Executive Director from 1995 to 2012, passed away January 6, 2019, after a long illness.Probably more than anyone else, Marion was responsible for…
For the first time, a numerical model has simulated the entire evolution of a solar flare. In these events, a huge amount of energy is released in several ways: thermal and magnetic energy, and kinetic energy in the form of energized…
Alan Li and Jarrett van den Bergh attended the National Convention for State Legislators (NCSL) held in Los Angeles, CA, July 30 – August 2, 2018. Li and van den Bergh presented their work on the NASA NeMO-Net project, a…
BAER Institute Research Scientist Darlene Lim has appeared in a number of articles about her work with NASA related to for future missions to Mars and other planets. Kilauea Eruptions and BASALT Dr. Lim, a geobiologist working with the Planetary…
The NASA Ames-based instrument 4STAR (Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research) team has formed a new partnership with the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) to integrate the instrument onto the Canadian airborne platform, Convair 580. BAER Institute Research Scientist Samuel…
BAER Institute scientist, Ann Marie Cody, is an avid runner and the mother of triplets. She‘s sometimes seen running through the NASA Ames campus at noon with her children strapped into a 3-seated stroller. On April 15, 2018, she broke…