We’re excited to debut a new feature to our website, “The Women of BAERI.” In promoting STEM education to all young students, women in science and engineering are the best examples of inspiration and motivation for girls and young women…
January 28, 2019 Dear BAER Employees, It is with great sadness that I have to report that Marion Williams, our Executive Director from 1995 to 2012, passed away January 6, 2019, after a long illness.Probably more than anyone else, Marion…
August 8, 2018 Alan Li and Jarrett van den Bergh attended the National Convention for State Legislators (NCSL) held in Los Angeles, CA, July 30 – August 2, 2018. Li and van den Bergh presented their work on the NASA…
BAER Institute Research Scientist Darlene Lim has appeared in a number of articles about her work with NASA related to for future missions to Mars and other planets. Kilauea Eruptions and BASALT Dr. Lim, a geobiologist working with the Planetary…
The NASA Ames-based instrument 4STAR (Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research) team has formed a new partnership with the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) to integrate the instrument onto the Canadian airborne platform, Convair 580. BAER Institute Research Scientist Samuel…
Robert Comstock of Cal Poly San Luis Obsipo, and Sean Lam, University of Washington, have achieved the first simulations of an Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) aircraft that will support a variety of aerodynamic analyses in support of future science missions.…
Members of the National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC) recently returned from Ramstein, Germany, after supporting a joint research project with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Adam Webster (Mission Director), Kelly Edmond (Mission Director-in-training), Dave van Gilst (data system and Satcom…
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…