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…
On December 1st, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris chaired the Biden administration's first meeting of the National Space Council. Biden’s Space Council is the largest in history — new members include Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Agriculture…
In 2017, BAERI's Cindy Schmidt launched NASA's Indigenous People's Capacity Building Initiative, a program that partners with indigenous communities to give them the technical training to use remote sensing tools for tribal land and resource management. The partnership and its…
StoryCorps, the award-winning nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing humanity's stories, is currently featuring Share your Science, a new collection of interviews with NASA Ames Research Center scientists, created by BAER Institute's Kassie Perlongo, Sandy Dueck, and Katrina Wesencraft. Their…
In this episode we speak with two team members of NASA’s Earth Science Project Office (ESPO), and learn about the essential, behind the scenes work they’re doing to help scientists get out into the field and collect the data they need to…
Dr. Zara Mirmalek BAER Institute's Zara Mirmalek has received a 2021 NASA Ames Honors Award, a peer nominated award that is among Ames's most prestigious honors. Dr. Mirmalek is a Co-I on the P-STAR funded BASALT and SUBSEA analog research…