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…
On March 26th, 1993, our founder Robert Bergstrom signed the official paperwork to create the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. We’ll be celebrating BAERI’s 30th anniversary with 30 stories that highlight some of the most impactful work the Institute has…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Over 25 BAERI and NASA Ames Science Directorate researchers presented in person or virtually at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA., December 13-17, 2021. AGU is the leading forum for advancing Earth and space science…