NASA Earth Exchange (NEX): Big Data Challenges, High-Performance Computing, and Machine Learning Innovations BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | September 25, 2016 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley Speaker: Sangram Ganguly, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for…
BAER Staff, working with NASA’s Earth Science Project Office, have laid the groundwork for a series of pioneering flights over the Korean Peninsula as part of the Korea-U.S. Air Quality Experiment (KORUS-AQ). This study hopes to compare air quality models…
The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world begins Sunday, December 13, 2015 in San Francisco, California. BAERI will be well represented, with our scientists involved in over 60 presentations. See the…
Dr. Emma Yates of BAER has begun analyzing atmospheric data collected this spring and summer by the Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment (AJAX). The AJAX project, which has supported NASA Earth Science objectives since 2011, measured ozone and greenhouse gas concentrations…
BAER Institute’s President, Dr. Robert Bergstrom, has received the Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Award from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. The award “recognizes alumni who have demonstrated excellence in industry, academia, governmental service, or other endeavors related to…
BAER’s Cecelia Chang recently returned from Houston where she participated in the "Volcano-plume Investigation Readiness and Gas-phase and Aerosol Sulfur" (VIRGAS) field experiment. The experiment primarily tested a new NOAA instrument designed to study sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from volcanoes.…
On October 13 and 14, 2015, Dr. Sangram Ganguly of BAER was part of the faculty for a graduate course in Geomatics presented by Aalto University’s School of Engineering in Espoo, Finland. During the two-day course, entitled “Global Monitoring of…
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…