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…
A paper featuring Vanessa Polito's work on solar flares was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy. Polito is a co-author on the study, which is a collaboration with lead author Chengcai Shen of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA),…
Over 25 BAERI and NASA Ames Science Directorate researchers presented in person or virtually at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA., December 13-17, 2021. AGU is the leading forum for advancing Earth and space science…