In this episode we hear from planetary scientist Victoria Hartwick who works with the Mars Climate Modeling Center at NASA Ames. The conversation includes a discussion about Dr. Hartwick’s paper that explores whether wind turbines on Mars could be a viable source…
BAERI researcher Taylor Bell was part of the team that recently published a paper in Nature that shows the Earth-like exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b likely has no atmosphere. The study is significant in that the seven-planet TRAPPIST system has three planets…
On March 26th, 1993, our founder Robert Bergstrom signed the official paperwork to create the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. We’ll be celebrating BAERI’s 30th anniversary with 30 stories that highlight some of the most impactful work the Institute has…
A recent paper published by BAER Institute researcher Victoria Hartwick in Nature Astronomy shows the potential for wind turbines to help power future human exploration on the surface of Mars, a source of energy previously written off due to the…
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…
Part II: An interview with Jesse Bregman In this two-part series we’ll meet two researchers who will soon be working with data from the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. In this episode, Part II, I speak with Jesse Bregman,…
Part I: An interview with Taylor Bell In this two-part series we’ll meet two researchers who will soon be working with data from the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. In this episode, Part I, I speak with early career…
Vanessa Polito is a heliophysics researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. Originally from Italy, her work focuses on understanding the nature and dynamics of solar flares, the largest explosions in the solar system. This interview has been edited for…