Emily Wisinski standing next to the Robert Cramer Research Hall building sign

Junior Emily Wisinski awarded NOAA Hollings Scholarship

May 13, 2021

Junior Emily Wisinski, an honors student in the Department of Atmospheric & Earth Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of the University of Alabama System, has been awarded the nationally competitive National Oceanic and Atmos...

Holley Kenward

AES Student Achievements

Mar 01, 2021

Sebastian Harkema, Todd McKinney, Corey Amiot, and Holley Kenward are featured for recent achievements in Atmospheric and Earth Science. Holley Kenward Received the Best Student Poster Award at the Fourth Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and...

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UAH helps develop air quality monitoring application for Thailand

Nov 23, 2020

Thailand will get help mitigating air pollution from a new satellite data application co-developed by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. ...

Sue Estes

NASA awards Exceptional Public Service Medal to ESSC’s Sue Estes

Oct 15, 2020

NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Service Medal to Sue Estes, a research scientist at the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, who also has a role at ...

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UAH interim science dean gets $600,000 to create more accurate analysis of soil moisture

Sep 10, 2020

A two-year, $600,000 grant to create a more accurate analysis of soil moisture for drought depiction, agricultural assessments and flood potential has been awarded to the interim dean of the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsv...

Alaska wildfires and Iowa droughts topics for NASA DEVELOP presentations

Alaska wildfires and Iowa droughts topics for NASA DEVELOP presentations

Apr 03, 2019

Three students and one alumna at UAH recently made presentations to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) officials regarding their research as part of the UAH-hosted MSFC node of NASA DEVELOP. ...

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Can Billions of Corn Plants Affect the Weather in Nebraska?

Jul 11, 2018

When thinking of irrigation, most people imagine the huge dry valleys of California – Sacramento, San Joaquin, Coachella, Imperial – where so much of our food and fiber is grown. However, it is the state of Nebraska that slakes the thirst of mo...

Shah wins Woods Hole fellowship

Shah wins Woods Hole fellowship

May 11, 2018

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — From the choked air of Mumbai, India, to the mostly untracked rain forests of Ecuador and the Amazon River basin, UAH’s Ankur Shah is trying to find a sustainable balance between living a modern, high technology lifestyle and...

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Large hailstone is now official state record, and 1st entry in Alabama’s new hail dataset

Apr 13, 2018

A large hailstone that fell in Cullman County on March 19 is now officially the largest recorded hailstone to fall in Alabama. ...

Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA’s EarthKAM project

Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA’s EarthKAM project

Mar 15, 2018

What does a hurricane look like from 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface? What do images taken of the ice caps over the past few years tell us about how they’ve changed? These are the types of questions that middle school students in dozen...