This past summer, thirty-two undergraduate students completed a NASA summer internship designed to provide them with an airborne Earth science research experience. The NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is run by the National Suborbital Research Center at the BAER…
BAER Institute participants in the recent ORACLES mission received recognition for their invaluable service to this Earth Venture Science mission. The breadth of talent included efficient logistics management, weather forecasting, and maintaining reliable instrument performance. The dedication of BAERI scientists…
NASA has agreed to fund a team of scientists (Dr. Ved Chirayath-PI, Dr. Alan Li-Co-I, Dr. Kamalika Das, Co-I), including Dr. Michal Segal Rozenhaimer from BAER as Co-Investigator to study aquatic ecosystems, particularly coral reefs using recently developed remote sensing…
On April 27, 2017, the journal Atmospheric Chemistry Physics published an article led by Dr. Susan Kulawik introducing new analysis of near-infrared observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). GOSAT, also known as “Ibuki”, meaning “breath” in Japanese, was…
Dr. Juan Torres-Perez will lead a joint effort by BAER Institute, NASA, researchers from the University of Puerto Rico, and citizen scientists to study the bleaching of coral reefs off the coast of Puerto Rico. Globally, coral reefs have been experiencing…
BAER’s Senior Scientist Dr. Susan Kulawik will be co-Investigator on a new NASA satellite-based mission called the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory, or GeoCARB. The mission, which, is expected to launch in 2022 as a hosted payload in on a commercial…
The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world begins Sunday, December 11, 2016 in San Francisco, California. BAERI will be well-represented, with our scientists involved in over 74 presentations. View and download…
The NASA Airborne Science Program announces the opportunity for highly motivated rising senior undergraduates to participate in an 8-week summer 2017 internship program in Earth system science using its C-23 Sherpa and ER-2 flying laboratories. The NASA Student Airborne Research…
NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) has announced its 2016 proposal awardees. Dr. Sangram Ganguly received funding for two proposals (as Co-Investigator) for the next three years to perform research related to monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of the annual greenhouse…
The work of BAER's Sreeja Nag was a recent focus of MIT news: “A team of small, shoebox-sized satellites, flying in formation around the Earth, could estimate the planet’s reflected energy with twice the accuracy of traditional monolith satellites, according…