BAERI’s Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla (Pardha) (first author) and his co-authors have received the first place 2026 Esri Award in the category Best Scientific Paper in GIS. They were recognized for their work, “Landsat-derived rainfed and irrigated-area product for Conterminous United States…
We are pleased to share that a number of current and former BAERI folk have been selected for 2025 Ames Honor Awards in several categories, including:Best First Paper—Kristen Okorn, PhD (“An overview of outdoor low-cost gas-phase air quality sensor deployments:…
The 106th American Meteorological Society annual meeting is taking place from January 25– 29, 2026 both online and in-person in Houston, TX. Here is this year's schedule of talks and poster presentations that involve BAERI researchers.
The MASTER instrument (the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator), which is supported/calibrated by the Airborne Sensor Facility (a group made up entirely of BAERI employees), is uniquely calibrated to capture imagery and temperature information of wildfires. As part of the GEMx project,…
Congratulations to BAERI’s Pratima K C, PhD, winner of the recently announced 2024 Best PhD Thesis Award, Remote Sensing from MDPI. In her thesis, K C develops a structure to use remote sensing to model and monitor forest conditions to…
A team of researchers, led by Savannah Cooley, examined what happens when farmland returns to its natural state as forest or savanna. Unlike previous studies that focused mainly on carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption, Cooley's team analyzed a more complete picture:…
BAERI’s Ju-Mee Ryoo and a team of research scientists used 10 years of Global Precipitation Management data to investigate how precipitation systems are linked to Atmospheric rivers. Their findings, described in Geophysical Research Letters, can lead to improvement in the predictions of extreme rainfall.
Every summer, dozens of rising seniors get hands-on experience collecting environmental data from research aircraft and field sites during NASA's Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). In addition to collecting data, SARP mentors teach students how to analyze and present their…
BAERI’s Savannah Cooley is lead author on a recent paper that quantifies the long-term thermal stress on forests in the Brazilian Amazon after fire, with effects lasting decades. Cooley and her co-authors found that fire-damaged forests in the Brazilian Amazon…
A new photo gallery by BAERI’s Milan Loiacono depicts a prescribed burn operation that took place in April at the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. The burn was conducted by the Department of Defense (DoD); its primary purpose was…