UAH scientist lands $750,000 DOE EPSCoR grant for low temperature plasma research
Jul 28, 2020
A principal research scientist in The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Established Program to Stimul...
Plasma Science Decadal Stresses Coordination Gaps and Workforce Instabilities
Jun 16, 2020
The National Academies decadal assessment of plasma science released last month describes funding and workforce instabilities that threaten the status of the U.S. as a world leader in the field. It recommends that federal science ...
UAH looks beyond the sky again with central space science role in two NASA missions
Feb 14, 2022
Fresh off successful direct involvement in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Parker Solar Probe (PSP) in roles that included optics, hardware, software, testing analytics, computational modeling and big data processing and disseminatio...
Plasma science report co-chaired by Dr. Zank urges better federal agency coordination
May 28, 2020
Federal agencies should better coordinate their activities in plasma science and engineering (PSE) and jointly support new funding opportunities that take advantage of PSE’s overlaps with different science disciplines to maintain U.S. leadership ...
CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank Featured by Huntsville News Stations
Feb 05, 2020
Dr. Gary Zank's role in analyzing the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter data was featured by a few Huntsville news stations yesterday. Below are links to the articles. WHNT News 19: https://whnt.com/2020/02/04/uah-research-team-prep...
NASA’s MMS Finds First Interplanetary Shock
Aug 13, 2019
The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission has found it's first interplanetary shock. NASA posted an informative article about the discovery here. The event and results were recently published in a paper co-authored by CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank in ...
Parisa Mostafavi Awarded UAH College of Science Graduate Research Award
Apr 15, 2019
On April 9th, Parisa Mostafavi was awarded the UAH College of Science Graduate Research Award at the 2019 Honors Day. The Graduate Research Award is given to an outstanding graduate student who has conducted leading edge research, published papers in...
Alabama Space Grant Consortium to build first collaborative CubeSat
Feb 27, 2019
An effort by Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) members to design and build the first in a planned series of statewide collaborative cube satellites (CubeSats) will be the focus of a workshop Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Educator Training F...
Five UAH programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 by NSF
Jan 10, 2019
The National Science Foundation released their latest survey of federally financed research expenditures, and five programs at UAH continue to be ranked among the top 25 in the nation. These include the following: ...
Dr. Gary Zank Talks Parker Solar Mission
Jan 07, 2019
Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson to discuss the Parker Solar Mission. See the interview here: https://whnt.com/2018/12/30/uah-space-science-...