AGU scholarship recipient uses space-based observations to help define extreme weather
Sep 21, 2018
While the threat of severe weather may strike fear into the hearts of most people, Lena Heuscher is not most people. In fact, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at UAH, she sees the arrival of high-impact events as an opp...
Climatologists obtain grant to develop new climate sensitivity information
Sep 18, 2018
Climatologists at UAH have received a grant from the United States Dept. of Energy to develop a new method of determining how the Earth’s climate is responding to greenhouse gases that they think will be more accurate than current methods. ...
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...
Earth system science major finds flood of undergraduate research opportunities at UAH
May 24, 2018
It wasn’t hard for Angela Burke to narrow down her choices when she set out to earn her bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field. "Nothing in STEM held my interest except meteorology!" she says with a laugh....
Carey honored for mentoring graduate students
May 11, 2018
Dr. David Berkowitz, dean of UAH’s Graduate School, presents the 2018 graduate mentoring award to Dr. Larry Carey, chair of the Atmospheric Science Department, during the university’s annual awards day ceremony. (UAH Photo/Michael Mercier) &nb...
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...
UAH low-cost weather stations to join irrigation/weather study
Apr 20, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 19, 2018) — A grid of low-cost weather stations built at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will spend part of this summer in Nebraska helping scientists learn more about how large-scale irrigation might be changi...
UAH professor’s early-stage proposal for “Marsbees” selected to receive NASA funding
Apr 04, 2018
A proposal on Marsbees submitted by Dr. Chang-kwon Kang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UAH, was one of only 25 selected to receive a 2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) award. ...
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...
Lightning mapping sensor will provide UAH scientists with unique stereo view
Feb 27, 2018
With the scheduled March 1 launch of a new weather satellite, scientists at UAH are looking forward to getting a unique stereo view of lightning in storms over the United States. ...
