2020-09-04 19:34:56 Study of how COVID tourism decline affects Belize’s coastal waters earns NASA grant Details Published: 04 September 2020 A study to investigate how a COVID-19 related decline in tourism might reduce human impacts that affect coastal water quality in Belize earned a one year, $50,000 NASA Rapid Response grant for the associate dean of the College of Science at The … Read more » 2020-09-03 17:01:33 UAH Earth system science master’s graduate co-authors glacial lake expansion paper Details Published: 03 September 2020 A recently graduated master’s student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is a co-author of a research paper in Nature about the rapid growth of glacial lakes since … Read more » 2020-02-03 15:00:00 Professors to study whether socioeconomics and environment affect child immunity Details Published: 03 February 2020 Two professors at UAH have teamed up with a genetic sequencing firm at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to try to understand whether the socioeconomic status of parents and environmental exposures have an impact on the developing … Read more » 2020-01-06 16:40:33 UAH’s aerospace engineering research activities rank fifth in the United States Details Published: 06 January 2020 Five programs among the top 12 … Read more » 2019-11-04 20:14:02 UAH alumnus Scott Mackaro named VP, Science, Innovation & Development for AccuWeather Details Published: 04 November 2019 The 1996 blockbuster movie, Twister cinched Scott Mackaro’s (’03, M.S., ’08 PhD, Atmospheric Science) decision to become a … Read more » 2019-09-12 19:00:02 Conference offers sneak peek at future TEMPO, MAIA satellite health research data Details Published: 12 September 2019 On Oct. 10 at UAH, researchers who study the effects of atmospheric gases and particulate matter on public health will be preparing to get some new eyes in the … Read more » 2019-01-09 15:03:09 ESSC research scientist receives AI for Earth Innovation grant Details Published: 09 January 2019 A research scientist at the UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) is one of 11 change-makers selected to receive Microsoft and National Geographic AI for Earth Innovation grants to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to help understand and … Read more » 2018-09-21 20:54:01 AGU scholarship recipient uses space-based observations to help define extreme weather Details Published: 21 September 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 … Read more » 2018-09-18 14:00:00 Climatologists obtain grant to develop new climate sensitivity information Details Published: 18 September 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 … Read more » 2018-07-11 18:32:22 Can Billions of Corn Plants Affect the Weather in Nebraska? Details Published: 11 July 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 … Read more » 1234...678