UAH researchers support Southeast flash drought assessment to improve future drought preparedness Jan 21, 2026 The Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, played a key role in supporting a newly published regional drought assessment that details important lessons learne... UAH researcher identifies breakthrough pathway for air pollution particle formation Jan 20, 2026 An atmospheric scientist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has helped uncover a previously unknown chemical pathway that plays a major role in the formation of air pollution particles in e... UAH student publishes groundbreaking hurricane study improving accuracy of hurricane wind estimates after landfall Oct 31, 2025 A paper authored by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) graduate student Zeb Leffler has been published in the Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), showcasing the university’s growing impact on ad... UAH Earth System Science Center researchers question world record for hottest temperature ever observed Oct 30, 2025 A new study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) by researchers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, calls for invalidating the world record hottest tempe... UAH researcher receives AMS award for advances in hurricane science and forecasting Sep 25, 2025 Dr. Xiaomin Chen, an assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science and principal investigator in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama Sy... UAH first-of-its-kind study shows air quality data derived from megacities are not accurate when applied to U.S. urban centers Jul 23, 2025 Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have published a paper in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment that demonstrates for the first time that using data gathered on atmospheric particles from Chinese meg... UAH researchers’ climate study quantifies Urban Heat Island warming effects related to population density for the first time May 02, 2025 A new research study from The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of The University of Alabama System, addresses the question, how much have urban areas warmed from the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect? ... UAH’s Dr. Josh Wurman earns spot in National Storm Chasing Hall of Fame Apr 09, 2025 Dr. Josh Wurman, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), was recently named to the National Storm Chasing Hall of Fame (NSCHoF). ... Fighting fire with science: UAH and NASA forge groundbreaking fire management collaboration in South Alabama Mar 24, 2025 Researchers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, have partnered with the Alabama Forestry Commission and NASA’s FireSense initiative to study prescribed burns in the Geneva State Fores... UAH secures $5M for groundbreaking radar instrumentation and hail research Feb 25, 2025 The Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets (FARM) team, part of the Severe Weather Institute – Radar & Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) Earth System and Science Center (ESSC), has been awarde... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9