Alex McVey

UAH Earth system science major helps map, preserve wetlands in Rwanda

Aug 10, 2017

For tiny, overcrowded Rwanda, preserving its ecologically important wetlands is a big challenge, made more challenging by the lack of reliable maps. How can you protect what you have in the future if you don’t know what you have in the present? ...

Kelsey Herndon

UAH graduate student maps water in African desert

Aug 07, 2017

For thousands of generations, Africans concerned about their water supply looked to passing clouds for relief. Now, thanks in part to NASA's SERVIR program and several students and researchers at UAH, many of Africa's leaders will increasingly be l...

Rob Griffin

UAH designated Center of Academic Excellence in geospatial sciences

Aug 01, 2017

The Department of Atmospheric Science at UAH has been named a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in geospatial sciences by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the U.S. Geological Survey. ...

Julian Longoria

UAH Earth system science student does the “research sprint”

Jul 20, 2017

When you have only three months to complete a research project, it can feel like a 12-week sprint – especially if the project includes building hardware. "You have to work quickly, and half the time I was building equipment," says Julian Longoria...

Panama Lightening

UAH part of team researching tropical trees hit by lightning

Jul 13, 2017

Trees and lightning generally don't play well together. However, while many trees struck by lightning explode or ignite or are otherwise instantly killed, other trees (especially in the tropics) seem less effected by lightning strikes and live for ...

SWIRLL building

SWIRLL building attains LEED certification status

Jun 06, 2017

The Severe Weather Institute – Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) building at UAH recently attained green building Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified status. ...

Erik Rasmussen speaking

VORTEX-SE tornado study brings 11 institutions to UAH

Mar 23, 2017

The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. — and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part of the country — will get an in-depth probe this spring, as researchers from 11 research institutions around the c...

MSc Research Assistantship in Urban Remote Sensing Now Open at UAH

MSc Research Assistantship in Urban Remote Sensing Now Open at UAH

Mar 22, 2017

Applications are invited for a 2-year graduate research assistant at the Master’s level beginning summer/fall 2017 in the Earth System Science (ESS) or Atmospheric Science (ATS) program of the Department of Atmospheric Science at UAH. ...

UAH undergrads to launch balloons for Vortex-SE tornado research

UAH undergrads to launch balloons for Vortex-SE tornado research

Mar 21, 2017

Bad weather in March, April and early May will bring a virtual cloud of weather balloons to North Alabama, as scientists from around the U.S. gather to study the challenges of predicting which storms spin up tornadoes across the Southeastern states...

Mike Bettes takes a break with Charger Blue during 2014 Weather Channel coverage on campus.

The Weather Channel’s Mike Bettes to keynote Weather Fest on Saturday

Feb 20, 2017

Mike Bettes, on-camera meteorologist and lead tornado tracker for The Weather Channel, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Rocket City Weather Fest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) ...