Bay Area Environmental Research Institute

A new collaboration between San Jose State University (SJSU) and NASA Ames Research Center will provide paid internships in fire ecology and remote sensing technologies to selected graduate and undergraduate student researchers. BAERI’s Samiah Moustafa and SJSU’s Bo Yang spearheaded the program, which welcomes its first class of interns on July 8th! https://lnkd.in/eZirebiK

BAERI’s latest newsletter contains some newly published stories as part of our BAERI: 30 Years | 30 Stories series. The News & Stories page of our website features the full text of those articles, including Erin Bregman’s profile of the Earth Science Project Office (ESPO) and Jane Berg’s overview of the Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). On the page, you can also sign up to have our quarterly newsletter delivered to your inbox, so you can stay up to date with BAERI researchers’ latest work! https://lnkd.in/g6uWuuku

June is National Ocean Month and to commemorate the occasion, we have published a story by Rachel Sender, PhD on the coral-classifying game NeMO-Net. Click to navigate to the News & Stories page on BAERI’s website and learn how BAERI researchers helped develop a video game to assist conservation efforts around the world. https://lnkd.in/gTND9pH6

In a recent Reuters article, BAERI Postdoctoral Researcher Claire Teitelbaum offered insight into the relationship between bird migration and avian flu.  https://lnkd.in/g6GqMEYe

Congratulations to BAERI’s Taylor Bell for being named one of NASA Ames Science Directorate’s Stars of the Month for June 2024!

BAERI’s Katera Lee has launched a new series on the NASA website called “What Is…?” This group of plain-language articles is intended to promote accessibility and understanding of Earth science concepts. The first piece (linked here) focuses on Earth’s atmosphere. Stay tuned for more: future stories will highlight biodiversity, greenhouse gas, and air quality.

We are proud to announce that BAERI’s Ju-Mee Ryoo has received a prestigious Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award “for seminal research leading to a key discovery highlighting the coupling between atmospheric rivers and wildfire potential.” Congratulations to Ju-Mee on this achievement!

After 37 years and 158 data-collecting missions, NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Library flies for the final time on May 15th. The DC-8 featured prominently in the climate-study efforts of The National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC), a collaboration between NASA’s Ames Research Center and BAERI. It will land permanently in Pocatello, Idaho, and will serve as a training tool for aspiring aircraft technicians at Idaho State University.

As reported in a recent “Science News” story, BAERI heliophysicist Navdeep Panesar is working on understanding the mechanisms that lead to pint-size eruptions on the Sun known as “campfires.”

A team of researchers has interpreted data from the James Webb Space Telescope in order to map weather conditions on WASP-43b, an exoplanet 283 light-years away from Earth. BAERI’s Taylor Bell, lead author of a study published in the journal "nature astronomy," discusses how the team used information from the telescope to uncover the nature of the planet’s weather.