BAERI’s Katera Lee has launched a new series on the NASA website called “What Is…?” This group of plain-language articles is intended to promote accessibility and understanding of Earth science concepts. The first piece (linked here) focuses on Earth’s atmosphere.Stay…
By Jane Berg Logo embroidered into the seat covers on the DC-8 jetliner, also known as the Airborne Science Laboratory. Image: Jane Berg. Despite my noise-canceling headset, the whirring engines are still very loud as NASA’s Airborne Science Program plane…
By Erin Bregman Every Tuesday morning, members of the Earth Science Project Office gather around a conference room table at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, to problem solve and talk about upcoming mission plans. The 20-person…
By Rachel Sender A fire coral before and after bleaching. Bleaching has become more prevalent in coral reefs as global warming causes the oceans to warm. Image: XL Catlin Seaview Survey. A Daring Drone Delivery In 2019, over the waters…
Sue Tolley in Denali National Park, Alaska, March 2008. Image: Marilyn Vasques. In this year after Sue Tolley’s passing, we continue to remember and honor her nearly two decades with BAERI as a member of the NASA Earth Science Project…
We are proud to announce that BAERI’s Ju-Mee Ryoo has received a prestigious Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award “for seminal research leading to a key discovery highlighting the coupling between atmospheric rivers and wildfire potential.” Congratulations to Ju-Mee on this achievement!
After 37 years and 158 data-collecting missions, NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory flies for the final time on May 15th. The DC-8 featured prominently in the climate-study efforts of the National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC), a collaboration between NASA’s Ames…
NASA’s Bridge Seed program, whose goal is “to develop sustainable partnerships among institutions historically under-resourced by NASA,” recently awarded one of its first 11 awards to the FireSage project. FireSage is a collaboration between San José State University’s Wildfire Interdisciplinary…
At December’s 2023 AGU conference, one poster that has generated buzz…or squawks, analyzed the flights of great frigatebirds in the Pacific. The poster, with statistics analyzed and figures generated by BAERI’s Sepideh Khajehei, shows that the high-flying birds likely trace…
ARC-CREST (The NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative Research in Earth Science and Technology) is a five-year, $117 million cooperative agreement from NASA Ames Research Center to advance cutting-edge research in Earth science and technology. The agreement was originally awarded to…