Dr. Christy honors outstanding ESSC employees with 2022 Meritorious Service awards
Feb 06, 2023
Each year, the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) Earth System Science Center (ESSC), a part of the University of Alabama system, hosts the Annual ESSC Meritorious Service Awards ceremony to honor exceptional service to the university and ...
UAH builds, installs low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how flash droughts impact agriculture
Dec 15, 2022
To help farmers become more drought-resilient and better characterize drought impacts when seeking federal assistance, the Earth System Science Center at UAH is assembling and installing 50, low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how quickly soi...
Long-term Western precipitation trends are stable, says UAH atmospheric scientist Dr. John Christy
Dec 15, 2022
Over the past 130 years regions that provide the major source for spring and summer runoff have not shown a long-term pattern that indicates a permanent decline in precipitation, according to research by Dr. John Christy, a distinguished professor ...
UAH’s Earth System Science Center employees recover historic NASA Arctic and Antarctic flight data
Nov 08, 2022
Historic records dating back to the 1990s of NASA’s P-3 aircraft flights over the Arctic and Antarctic circles were recently found and digitized by two employees of UAH's Earth System Science Center in cooperation with NASA's IMPACT program. ...
Hurricane Ian recovery response bolstered by UAH satellite remote sensing data
Oct 05, 2022
The recovery response to Hurricane Ian in Florida has been informed by the efforts of two University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Earth System Science Center (ESSC) research associates who have been analyzing pre-event and post-event satellite re...
$1.95 million DOE grant funds UAH effort to better understand climate change
Sep 28, 2022
A nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological & Environmental Research will fund efforts by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) team led by the director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) to ...
Earth System Science student Emily Wisinski named Goldwater Scholar
Aug 24, 2022
Emily Wisinski, an Honors student in the Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of The University of Alabama System, has been named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar. ...
New infrastructure near NWS station likely cause of record July temperature readings, UAH scientist says
Aug 03, 2022
Additions of heat-capturing infrastructure around the National Weather Service (NWS) weather station at Huntsville International Airport are likely the cause for temperature data that NWS says shows the city had the hottest July on record, says Ala...
$500,000 grant funds UAH professor’s study of origin of tiny particles that can make clouds
Jul 27, 2022
In a study of tiny precursors to clouds that will provide scientists with more comprehensive information to use in global climate models, a researcher at UAH is trying to find out how ultrafine particles are created in an urban atmosphere. ...
Paper co-authored by Dr. Christy on climate model warming bias is a top 10 download
Jun 21, 2022
A research paper finding a significant global warming bias in climate models that was co-authored by the interim vice president for research and economic development at UAH has been cited by John Wiley & Sons Inc. as a top 10 download over the past...