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…
This year, dozens of BAERI researchers will be involved in over 100 different 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 in…
In a comment published on November 29, 2023 in the journal Nature Microbiology, a research team including BAERI’s Claire Teitelbaum warns of climate change’s impacts on bird migration and highly pathogenic avian influenza.
By Jane Berg The first photo taken from space was captured by a rocket-borne camera launched from New Mexico in October 1946. It showed a grainy black-and-white image with clouds and a sharp horizontal line where the atmosphere ended and outer…
“What is the role of irrigation as a human land management practice in the observed greening patterns in Indian croplands?” This is the question investigated in an article by BAERI’s Taejin Park and Ramakrishna (Rama) Nemani in collaboration with a…
By Rachel Sender Extreme and unpredictable weather patterns are quickly becoming the new normal—intense heat, flooding, tornadoes, and wildfires have become almost old news as Earth’s climate changes rapidly. To continue moving forward as a species, we will need to…