In 2017, BAERI's Cindy Schmidt launched NASA's Indigenous People's Capacity Building Initiative, a program that partners with indigenous communities to give them the technical training to use remote sensing tools for tribal land and resource management. The partnership and its…
StoryCorps, the award-winning nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing humanity's stories, is currently featuring Share your Science, a new collection of interviews with NASA Ames Research Center scientists, created by BAER Institute's Kassie Perlongo, Sandy Dueck, and Katrina Wesencraft. Their…
Dr. Zara Mirmalek BAER Institute's Zara Mirmalek has received a 2021 NASA Ames Honors Award, a peer nominated award that is among Ames's most prestigious honors. Dr. Mirmalek is a Co-I on the P-STAR funded BASALT and SUBSEA analog research…
An international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets orbiting a pair of related young stars (TOI 2076 and TOI 1807) that may give scientists insight into a little-understood stage of planetary evolution. A paper describing the findings, led by…
On May 31st, the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF) team joined BAERI, bringing with them an impressive breadth and depth of knowledge about airborne science instrumentation, and a deep enthusiasm for making the most of what the facility's tools can do.…
BAERI scientists Drs. Michel Nuevo, Partha Bera and two scientists from the NASA Ames Space Science and Astrobiology Division, Drs. Scott Sandford and Timothy Lee, co-authored a major review of astrochemistry and how it relates to astrobiology. The paper discusses…
Emily Schaller received the NASA Public Service Award at the 2019 NASA Honor Awards ceremony, held at NASA Ames Research Center, September 26, 2019. Presenting the award is (left) Mr. Clayton Turner, Deputy Director of NASA Langley Research Center, and…
Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Susan Kulawik, and SARP Program Manager, Dr. Emily Schaller, are the recipients of 2019 NASA Honor Awards for Exceptional Public Achievement and Exceptional Public Service, respectively. Dr. Kulawik Dr. Kulawik, a researcher in the Atmospheric Science…
Sreeja Nag is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center. Her research focuses on how clusters of spacecraft may autonomously ‘talk’ and move while in orbit to make more accurate observations and…