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…
BAER research scientist Souvik Bose will be awarded the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) best PhD thesis of the year award in the Sun and Heliosphere ...
BAERI astronomer Dr. Sanjiv Tiwari was curious about the never-before-seen small, explosive dots appearing on the Sun. Dr. Tiwari and his team from...
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…
The COSmIC Facility Group at Ames Research Center will receive the NASA Honor Award for Group Achievement. The upcoming award ...
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…
On December 1st, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris chaired the Biden administration's first meeting of the National Space Council. Biden’s Space Council is the largest in history — new members include Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Agriculture…
Citizen science projects are nothing new for BAERI researchers, whether it's teaching the public to identify transiting exoplanets (Planet Hunters Coffee Chat), or building an iPad game that helps classify the world's coral reefs (NeMO-Net). We can now add one…