Steve Hipskind, Division Chief of Earth Sciences at NASA Ames Research Center, is retiring on July 31, 2015, after 27 years of service. Steve became the Division Chief in 2005 and has been instrumental in the Division’s success and growth…
NASA has selected a team led by BAER’s Dr. Meloë Kacenelenbogen to study atmospheric aerosols. Through the three-year project, Dr. Kacenelenbogen will work with scientists from NASA, NOAA, and several universities on a number of tasks designed to improve the…
A team of scientists, including BAER’s Dr. Darlene Lim, have won the prestigious NASA Ames Honor Award for Group Achievement for the Pavilion Lake Research Project. The goal of the project is to discover the origin of freshwater reef-like structures…
Sreeja Nag, MIT graduate student in the AeroAstro Department and summer BAER Institute employee is the winner of the 22nd Annual Frank J. Redd Student Competition held at the Commerce of Small Satellites conference in Logan, UT, Aug. 2-7. This…
The work of BAER’s Susan Kulawik on NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO‑2) mission now enters a new stage with the launch of the OCO-2 satellite on July 2, 2014. The mission aims to provide scientists with new insight into the…
The Showtime television series “Years of Living Dangerously” premiered this month focusing on the role of greenhouse gases in global warming and the danger to the planet posed by rapid climate change. The series’ opening segment shows actor Harrison Ford’s…
SEAC4RS (Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys) studies how summer storms interact with air pollution and smoke from forest fires to the climate. Convective storms can loft pollution and gases high into the…
Story by Cathy Bussewitz THE PRESS DEMOCRAT NASA awarded $137 million Thursday to a team led by a Sonoma environmental research group to study climate change and pollution. The 10-year contract provides a long-term funding source for the Bay Area Environmental…