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) ...
Lightning sensor launch Saturday brings decades of work to fruition
Feb 15, 2017
In the mid 1990s, when NASA built two identical Lightning Imaging Sensors (just in case), Dr. Hugh Christian planned all along to send the flight spare into space. ...
Radar study targeting wind events at NASA, Air Force launch facilities
Feb 09, 2017
Rockets rolling to their launch towers at both the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida (and the people who work on them) may soon be a little bit safer, thanks to research in the Atmospheric Science Departmen...
Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling
Nov 22, 2016
Mid-December is going to be a busy time for University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Earth system science major Allison Daniel. ...
GLM launch will cap 36 years from idea to flight for UAH researcher
Nov 18, 2016
Dr. Hugh Christian is getting ready to watch 36 years of work rocket into space as science awaits the opportunity to better monitor the intensity and progress of storms to save lives and property on Earth. ...
Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling
Nov 17, 2016
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Nov. 17, 2016) — Mid-December is going to be a busy time for UAH Earth system science major Allison Daniel. Right after graduation on Sunday, Dec. 11, she has to hop on a flight to San Francisco to attend the winter meeting...
Students compete in 7th poster contest at Von Braun Memorial Symposium
Nov 02, 2016
For the seventh consecutive year, graduate and undergraduate students presented their research to compete for prizes at a student poster competition during the ninth Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium at UAH Oct. 25-27. ...
Griffin helps others find path through weather, climate data
Oct 25, 2016
The concept of information overload isn't a new one. The Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "distringit librorum multitudo" (the abundance of books is distraction) in the first century A.D. ...
UAH seeks science behind Sand Mountain tornadoes
Oct 20, 2016
Squeezed upward over the big toe of the Cumberland foothills, wind flowing north in front of a storm system accelerates over Sand Mountain in the northeastern corner of Alabama – until it hits the far edge. ...
New UAH lab seeks answers to particle, cloud mysteries
Oct 06, 2016
A new laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is setting out to solve some of the fundamental mysteries about one of the common compounds floating in the atmosphere and what effects (if any) that compound has on climate change. ...
