Climate Projections Detail Future Risks for Many People Worldwide
A recent study, built to enable local action, illustrates the extreme climate effects of 2°C of warming.
How to Build a Research Institute, in 30 Short Years
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…
“Down to Earth“ Podcast Features Discussion with BAERI’s Sativa Cruz on Data Sovereignty and the Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative
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…
NeMO-Net Video Game, Developed with Help of BAERI Researcher, Featured by National Geographic
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…
BAER Institute alumna Kate Duffy publishes paper on climate change’s major extinction threat to insects
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…
AGU Preview: The ARC-CREST researchers involved in the American Geophysical Union 2022 Fall Meeting
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.…
AGU Preview: The BAERI researchers involved in the American Geophysical Union 2022 Fall Meeting
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…
Kristina Pistone on what it’s like to work as a climate scientist
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…
Researchers Jennifer Kenworthy and Kristina Pistone receive 2022 NASA Ames Honors Awards
BAER Institute researchers Jennifer Kenworthy and Kristina Pistone were awarded NASA Ames Honors Awards earlier this month. Kenworthy is being recognized for "outstanding support to the entire Earth Science Division as researchers return to Ames and field deployments internationally, while…
NASA’s Student Science Activation Program completes first summer of student research
An article highlighting the students of SaSa (NASA's Student Science Activation Program) was published to the NASA Earth Expeditions blog last week. SaSa is a new NASA program at work to diversify the field of geoscience by engaging rising sophomore…