Emily Schaller received the NASA Public Service Award at the 2019 NASA Honor Awards ceremony, held at NASA Ames Research Center, September 26, 2019. Presenting the award is (left) Mr. Clayton Turner, Deputy Director of NASA Langley Research Center, and…
This past summer, thirty-two undergraduate students completed a NASA summer internship designed to provide them with an airborne Earth science research experience. The NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is run by the National Suborbital Research Center at the BAER…
On April 27, 2017, the journal Atmospheric Chemistry Physics published an article led by Dr. Susan Kulawik introducing new analysis of near-infrared observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). GOSAT, also known as “Ibuki”, meaning “breath” in Japanese, was…
Dr. Juan Torres-Perez will lead a joint effort by BAER Institute, NASA, researchers from the University of Puerto Rico, and citizen scientists to study the bleaching of coral reefs off the coast of Puerto Rico. Globally, coral reefs have been experiencing…
On March 10, 2017, Dr. Sreeja Nag was acknowledged for having delivered the Best Paper/Presentation at the International Academy of Astronautics Latin American Symposium on Small Satellites in Buenos Aries, Argentina. Dr. Nag’s paper addressed the concept of sensor webs…
BAER’s Senior Scientist Dr. Susan Kulawik will be co-Investigator on a new NASA satellite-based mission called the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory, or GeoCARB. The mission, which, is expected to launch in 2022 as a hosted payload in on a commercial…
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX): Big Data Challenges, High-Performance Computing, and Machine Learning Innovations BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | September 25, 2015 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley Speaker: Sangram Ganguly, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for…
Dr. Emma Yates of BAER has begun analyzing atmospheric data collected this spring and summer by the Alpha Jet Atmospheric eXperiment (AJAX). The AJAX project, which has supported NASA Earth Science objectives since 2011, measured ozone and greenhouse gas concentrations…
BAER’s Cecelia Chang recently returned from Houston where she participated in the "Volcano-plume Investigation Readiness and Gas-phase and Aerosol Sulfur" (VIRGAS) field experiment. The experiment primarily tested a new NOAA instrument designed to study sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from volcanoes…
On October 13 and 14, 2015, Dr. Sangram Ganguly of BAER was part of the faculty for a graduate course in Geomatics presented by Aalto University’s School of Engineering in Espoo, Finland. During the two-day course, entitled “Global Monitoring of…