Outstanding Engineer Award
Apr 27, 2015
Outstanding Engineer Award Congratulations to Dr. Kolobov on being selected as the winner of the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award. This award is being given “for distinctive contributions to plasma science through advan...
REU Students Show off Posters at 2014 AGU Conference
Jan 23, 2015
REU Students Show off Posters at 2014 AGU Conference As part of the NSF funded UAH-MSFC Heliophysics Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, a poster at the recent American Geophysical Union (AGU) co...
OSPA Winner!
Jan 16, 2015
The Outstanding Student Paper Awards (OSPAs) are awarded to promote, recognize and reward undergraduate, Master’s and PhD students for quality research in the geophysical sciences. It is a great honor for young scientists at the beginning of thei...
NASA's Fermi Mission Brings Deeper Focus to Thunderstorm Gamma-rays
Jan 16, 2015
Each day, thunderstorms around the world produce about a thousand quick bursts of gamma rays, some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. By merging records of events seen by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with data from grou...
Distinguished Speaker, Neil Gehrels, to Talk at CSPAR on 9/10/14
Sep 08, 2014
Date/Time/Place: Wednesday September 10th, 2014 at 10:30am, NSSTC/2096 Speaker: Dr. Neil Gehrels / Chief, Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Seminar Title: "Adventures in Time Domain Astronomy" Abstract: The gamma...
EUSO Telescope Prototype in Canada being Tracked by UAH Scientists
Aug 20, 2014
Matthew Rodencal, a graduate student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), another scientist, Douglas Huie of the Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center (RSESC) and engineer, Dr. James Adams of CSPAR are in the midst of tr...
Hurricane Julio Figures Getting Media Coverage
Aug 20, 2014
Michael Briggs, Assistant Director and Principal Research Scientist IV, has been featured on Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) about Tropical Storm Julio (now Hurricane). Briggs provided a figure of a Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) from Tropical ...
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Success
Aug 06, 2014
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research teamed up to have undergraduate students from around the country work on research projects related to heliophysics. The 10-week research program ...
Magnetism, Electricity, and Spectroscopy -- Oh My!
Jul 23, 2014
Eight REU students currently working at CSPAR summer of 2014, volunteered with Ms. Samaiyah Farid, Research Scientist, this weekend at the Fayetteville Library Science Week. There were participants with ages ranging from 2 to 12. They discussed mag...
Featured Article on Physics of Plasmas Website
Jul 22, 2014
Physics of Plasmas published Anomalous diffusion of field lines and charged particles in Arnold-Beltrami-Childress force-free magnetic fields in their July 2014 issue. Dr. Brahmananda Dasgupta, a Principal Research Scientist at CSPAR, ...