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…
The work of Senior Research Scientist Darlene Lim and her colleagues is the subject of a special issue of Astobiology, a peer-reviewed journal for evolution and life’s origins research. For the last 4 years, the Biologic Analog Science Associated with…
For the first time, a numerical model has simulated the entire evolution of a solar flare. In these events, a huge amount of energy is released in several ways: thermal and magnetic energy, and kinetic energy in the form of energized…
BAER Institute Research Scientist Darlene Lim has appeared in a number of articles about her work with NASA related to for future missions to Mars and other planets. Kilauea Eruptions and BASALT Dr. Lim, a geobiologist working with the Planetary…
BAER Institute scientist, Ann Marie Cody, is an avid runner and the mother of triplets. She‘s sometimes seen running through the NASA Ames campus at noon with her children strapped into a 3-seated stroller. On April 15, 2018, she broke…