How do we determine accuracy of satellite observations taken from hundreds of miles above the Earth? In the case of the PACE satellite, verification of data is accomplished by collecting measurements much closer to the ground through projects like AirSHARP.PACE,…
By Jane Berg and Tamara Enz June 6, 2025 What is the Internet of Animals? For thousands of years, people could only guess at the movements of animals once they were beyond where we could see and hear them directly. When…
BAERI’s Emma Yates is part of a small group of research scientists who look at air quality in the San Joaquin Valley. For their project “Ozone Where We Live” (OWWL), they are seeking citizen scientist volunteers on the ground and…
Last week, NASA’s FireSense project was featured on the TODAY show and NBC Nightly News.” The segments took place during a controlled burn at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and both featured BAERI’s Harrison Raine as subject matter expert. In interviews with…
Congratulations to Rama Nemani who recently co-authored a paper that analyzes satellite data to quantify how monsoon precipitation and groundwater pumping contributed to the greening of India’s Thar Desert from 2001–2023 and discusses resource planning for the future.
BAERI, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Lab and NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, recently completed the first test flights with a remarkable new navigation system called Soxnav. The system, using automated 3D steering guidance, aims to keep aircraft, at…
February 24, 2025 Congratulations to Rama and his colleagues at Niruthi! Learn more here.
This year, dozens of BAERI researchers will be involved in a wide range of 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…
by Jane Berg and Rachel Sender (A version of this piece was published previously on the nasa.gov site.) At the end of 2022, 65% of the western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two-decades-long megadrought in…
We are very excited about the news that the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract has been awarded to a team of organizations led by Crown Consulting, Inc. as prime contractor. BAERI is a part of “Team Crown,” which…