2023-01-26 22:33:54 National Geographic features UAH Ph.D. candidate’s research in thundersnow Details Published: 26 January 2023 Growing up in the snowy winters of Michigan, Sebastian Harkema, a Ph.D. candidate student in The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) department of Atmospheric & Earth Science, still remembers the first time he heard the roar of … Read more » 2022-12-15 17:02:40 UAH builds, installs low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how flash droughts impact agriculture Details Published: 15 December 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 … Read more » 2022-12-15 14:59:33 Long-term Western precipitation trends are stable, says UAH atmospheric scientist Dr. John Christy Details Published: 15 December 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 … Read more » 2022-10-05 17:57:46 Hurricane Ian recovery response bolstered by UAH satellite remote sensing data Details Published: 05 October 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 … Read more » 2022-09-28 13:28:12 $1.95 million DOE grant funds UAH effort to better understand climate change Details Published: 28 September 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 … Read more » 2022-09-23 22:07:22 COS welcomes seventeen new faculty for fall 2022 Details Published: 23 September 2022 The College of Science is proud to welcome several new faculty … 2022-09-23 14:30:33 UAH announces new Eminent Scholars in Atmospheric and Earth Science and Psychology Details Published: 23 September 2022 The University of Alabama in Huntsville announced two faculty members have been appointed to Eminent Scholar positions. These appointments became effective Aug. 10 … Read more » 2022-08-24 15:46:36 Earth System Science student Emily Wisinski named Goldwater Scholar Details Published: 24 August 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 … Read more » 2022-08-03 19:19:21 New infrastructure near NWS station likely cause of record July temperature readings, UAH scientist says Details Published: 03 August 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 … Read more » 2022-07-27 13:58:45 $500,000 grant funds UAH professor’s study of origin of tiny particles that can make clouds Details Published: 27 July 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 … Read more » 1234...6789