ARC-CREST
Cooperative Agreement
The Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI), in partnership with California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and San José State University (SJSU), has been awarded a five-year, $117 million cooperative agreement from NASA Ames Research Center to advance cutting-edge research in Earth science and technology.
The award, the Ames Research Center Cooperative for Research in Earth Science and Technology (ARC-CREST), is a renewal of the original 10-year agreement awarded to BAERI and CSUMB in 2012 and is a testament to the successful partnership between the organizations. To date, ARC-CREST scientists have received 3 individual and 21 group achievement awards from NASA, supported over 30 scientific field campaigns, published 387 articles in peer-reviewed journals, created 10 critical new datasets and technologies, and trained over 500 students to help advance Earth science and natural resources management.
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Research groups
The research groups supported by ARC-CREST are listed below. For more information on a specific research group, click the highlighted link (where applicable).

Earth Sciences Focus Areas

  1. 4STAR and Satellite Data Analysis
  2. Arctic Radiation-Ice Bridge Sea Ice Experiment (ARISE)
  3. Atmospheric Composition Campaign Data Analysis and Modeling (ACCDAM)
  4. Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical & CLimate Impact Project (ACCLIP) / Carbon mOnoxide Measurement from Ames (COMA)
  5. Aerosol Modeling & Data Analysis
  6. Alpha Jet Atmospheric Experiment (AJAX)
  7. Atmospheric Composition: Modeling and Analysis Program (ACMAP)
  8. Carbon Monitoring Systems (CMS)
  9. Earth System Data Records (ESDR)
  10. Fluid Lensing Technology Acceleration (FLA)
  11. Coastal Ocean Biology
  12. CRis PAN
  13. Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)
  14. GeoCarb
  15. Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX) and Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON)
  16. Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environment (MEaSUREs)
  17. The Marine Biodiversity and Scaling Project (MarineVERSE)
  18. MiDAR
  19. NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)
  20. Neural Multimodal observation and training network for global coral reef assessment (NeMO-NET)
  21. OCEMOD
  22. Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)
  23. Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) from AIRS (AIRS-PAN)
  24. PICOGRAM
  25. Plant Physiology
  26. RUMMBL
  27. SeaSTAR
  28. Surface Biology and Geology (SBG)
  29. TASNPP
  30. Terrestrial Ecosystem and Carbon Simulation Modeling
  31. Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)
  32. U.S. Coral Reef Task Force

Earth Science Applied Sciences Program

  1. Agriculture, Health and Marine Studies
  2. Climate Adaptation Science Investigators (CASI)
  3. Disaster Management
  4. Ecological Forecasting
  5. Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events Mission (GEO-CAPE)
  6. Indigenous Peoples Capacity Building Program
  7. Partnerships: NASA’s Earth Science Division and Conservation International
  8. Plant Physiology
  9. Water Resources Program 
  10. Water Quality Monitoring for National Geospatial Agency
  11. Western Water Applications Office (WWAO)

Biology

  1. Elucidating the Nitrogen Cycle of Eu:CROPIS Euglena: Combined Regenerative Organic-food Production In Space
  2. Raman Spectroscopy as a Viral sensor
  3. Synthetic Biology 

Heliophysics

  1. Collaborative Space Weather Model
  2. Heliophysics Modeling and Simulation
  3. Solar Physics Modeling

Airborne Science and Mission Support

  1. Atmospheric Chemistry Data Analysis
  2. Airborne Science Advanced Planning
  3. Airborne Science Program (ASP)
  4. Autonomous Scheduling of Earth-orbiting Satellite Constellations
  5. Distributed Spacecraft with Heuristic Intelligence to Enable Logistical Decisions (D-SHIELD)
  6. Earth Science Project Office (ESPO)
  7. Meteorological Measurement Systems (MMS)
  8. Meteorological Support
  9. NSRC Mission Operations
  10. Program Management Analysis
  11. SGE Support
  12. USFS Autonomous Modular Sensor

Education and Outreach

  1. Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET)
  2. CSUMB Educational Program
  3. DEVELOP
  4. Early Career Collaborators
  5. Earth Science Division Outreach
  6. Frankeneye
  7. Student Airborne Research Program (SARP)
  8. Student Airborne Science Activation (SaSa)
Leadership
Dr. Robert Bergstrom is the Founder and Director of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI), a non-profit research institute with a mission to enable world-class scientists to do groundbreaking research. Under Dr. Bergstrom's leadership, BAERI has worked collaboratively with NASA Ames' Earth Science Division for over 20 years. Dr. Bergstrom holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University, and Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering. He completed post-doctoral research in atmospheric physics at the University of Mainz, Germany and at NASA's Ames Research Center. Since 1972, his research has focused on the radiative properties of atmospheric aerosols. In addition to his career as a research scientist, Dr. Bergstrom holds a law degree from Stanford University. Before founding BAERI, Bergstrom worked as an Assistant Regional Counsel for the US Environmental Protection Agency, and co-founded the legal software company Legisoft.
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Dr. Susan Alexander holds two positions at the California State University Monterey of Bay: Professor of Ecology in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy, and the Director of the Applied Marine and Watershed Science M.S. degree program. A member of the CSUMB faculty since 1996, she is a leader in higher education program development serving Hispanic students and underrepresented populations in STEM education. Dr. Alexander holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University and a Doctoral degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. She completed her post-doctoral research in ecological modeling and remote sensing at NASA's Ames Research Center. Since 1997 she has served as the leader of a Cooperative Research program between NASA Ames' Earth Science Division and CSUMB to carry out research, technology, and application development in the area of applied earth systems and environmental science. In this role she has overseen over $20 million dollars in grant-funded research conducted by dozens of senior investigators, resulting in over 150 publications.
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