BAERI’s Ryan Bennett, Program Manager of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) West, said farewell to 24 students last month as they presented their final research at the University of California, Irvine, on August 9–10. In this 8-week long internship program,…
BAERI’s Milan Loiacono wrote a terrific article on the 20th-anniversary celebration of the NASA Ames chapter of DEVELOP (Digital Earth Virtual Environment and Learning Outreach Program). The internship was brought to Ames in 2003 by BAERI Researcher Cindy Schmidt and her colleague Jay Skiles.…
In this special episode of our podcast For the Love of Science, we hear the story of BAERI’s founding from the founders themselves: Robert Bergstrom and Sharon Sittloh. Listen here or on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. Robert…
Consider two philosophies around sharing data: Open Data vs. Data Sovereignty. Can these two ideologies coexist? BAERI researcher Sativa Cruz, a member of NASA’s Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative (IPI), talks about this and other matters involving rights over scientific data on…
Did you know that existing maps of Mars and the moon are currently more detailed than those of the seafloor on Earth? Ved Chirayath, a professor at University of Miami and a National Geographic Explorer, is leading a group of…
A new paper published by BAER Institute alumna Kate Duffy in the October edition of Nature Climate Change reveals that it isn't just rising global temperatures that pose a risk to insects around the world—the fluctuations in temperature that accompany…
ARC-CREST (The NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative Research in Earth Science and Technology) is a 10-year, $137 million cooperative agreement awarded to BAER Institute in 2012 that has funded the work of over 70 research groups with four collaborating institutions.…
The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world, will be held this year in Chicago and online everywhere from December 12-16, 2022. BAER Institute scientists will be involved in over 50 different…
In this episode we hear from climate scientist Kristina Pistone about her research, her role on the sustainability commission for the city of Sunnyvale in California, and how our current system of science funding impacts her ability to do her work. Listen…