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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 15, 2003
TWO SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS IN DECEMBER
The Bay Area Environmental Research Institute located on Third
Street West in Sonoma will be sponsoring two scientific meetings
during the first two weeks of December. BAER Institute was established
in 1993 by Director of Research, Robert W. Bergstrom, and Chief
Executive Officer, Sharon A. Sittloh. It is a non-profit corporation
dedicated to promoting and conducting research in the environmental
sciences, particularly atmospheric science.
BAER Institute scientists have worked with state and federal agencies
such as NASA Ames Research Center, the National Science Foundation,
and Biosphere Two. The Institute is well recognized nationally
for its significant contribution to the area of environmental
research and expertise in the areas of biology, chemistry, and
physics. Specific projects range in scale from the study of microbes
and how they develop in primitive atmospheric conditions to utilizing
satellite data to monitor and understand the Earth and Martian
atmospheres.
In December two atmospheric organizations will host international
meetings at the Lodge in Sonoma. On December 4th the Solar Radiation
and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Group arrives in Sonoma for a four
day stay. SORCE is a NASA sponsored satellite mission led by Dr.
Gary Rottman from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics,
University of Colorado that provides state of the art measurements
of incoming solar radiation.
Dr. Peter Pilewskie currently serving as a member of the program
committee for the SORCE Science Team Meeting says, "The scientific
meeting will be devoted to improving our understanding of the
physical processes that connect the Sun’s radiation and its
variability to our terrestrial environment. It will cover various
topics which include the mechanisms that cause variability in
the sun’s output as well as the sun-atmosphere interactions
related to global climate change." Dr. Pilewskie is the leader
of the Atmospheric Radiation Group in the NASA Ames Earth Science
Division and is the author of several papers dealing with climate
effects of clouds and aerosols in the terrestrial atmosphere.
The second meeting is for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
(ARM) Program. They begin their Aerosol Working Group Meeting
on December 14th and it runs through the 17th. The ARM program
is the largest global change research program supported by the
US Dept. of Energy (DOE).
The Bay Area Environmental Research Institute welcomes the opportunity
to bring international recognition to Sonoma.
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