Dr. Zara Mirmalek BAER Institute's Zara Mirmalek has received a 2021 NASA Ames Honors Award, a peer nominated award that is among Ames's most prestigious honors. Dr. Mirmalek is a Co-I on the P-STAR funded BASALT and SUBSEA analog research…
An international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets orbiting a pair of related young stars (TOI 2076 and TOI 1807) that may give scientists insight into a little-understood stage of planetary evolution. A paper describing the findings, led by…
In this episode we hear from two researchers who helped make the data from NASA’s Kepler mission accessible to the public, so that anyone in the world, including you, could sit down at your computer and discover a new planet.…
The impacts of Covid-19 and the global lockdowns are challenging all parts of work and home life. And for research scientists it’s no different. But when a team of researchers led by BAER Institute alumna Dr. Lucia Kleint began lockdown stranded at the Teide…
BAERI scientists Drs. Michel Nuevo, Partha Bera and two scientists from the NASA Ames Space Science and Astrobiology Division, Drs. Scott Sandford and Timothy Lee, co-authored a major review of astrochemistry and how it relates to astrobiology. The paper discusses…
Sreeja Nag is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center. Her research focuses on how clusters of spacecraft may autonomously ‘talk’ and move while in orbit to make more accurate observations and…
Dr. Sanjiv Tiwari, a BAER Institute scientist at Lockheed Martin’s Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA, participated in a press conference held at the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in St. Louis, MO, June 10, 2019. …
We interviewed Christina Hedges, an astronomer and scientist working on NASA’s Kepler/K2 space telescope mission. Kepler launched in 2009, and its mission was to search for planets around other stars. Losing two out of four reaction wheels on the telescope…
We’re excited to debut a new feature to our website, “The Women of BAERI.” In promoting STEM education to all young students, women in science and engineering are the best examples of inspiration and motivation for girls and young women…
AnnMarie Cody, BAERI Research Scientist in the Kepler/K2 Mission, competed in the 36th Wildflower Run held in Morgan Hill, CA, on March 31. With her triplets in their 3-seat stroller in front, she set a new Guinness Book world record…