UAH announces faculty promotion and tenure decisions for 2023-2024 academic year
May 05, 2023
The University of Alabama in Huntsville has recognized 25 faculty members for their outstanding performance and overall excellence by awarding them tenure and/or promotion starting with the 2023-2024 academic year. ...
UAH research programs achieve record high $169.5M in R&D funding for FY22
Apr 26, 2023
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) notched a record $169.5 million in federal research expenditures for fiscal year (FY) 2022, a 13% increase over FY21. ...
UAH researchers to gain revolutionary data on air pollutants from new NASA instrument launch
Apr 07, 2023
A team of air-quality researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, expects to receive vital data from a new NASA instrument launched into space Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket toward its host...
UAH SWIRLL researchers capture atmospheric data near Rolling Fork EF-4 tornado
Mar 31, 2023
A research team from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science and Earth System Science Center (ESSC) set up a tornado field campaign site outside Greenville, Mississippi, capturing weather data befor...
UAH graduate student transforms hobby into successful Antarctic experiment
Mar 27, 2023
First-year Atmospheric and Earth Sciences (AES) graduate student Todd McKinney has transformed his hobby into a low-cost, meteorological tool to study how air parcels travel within the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in Antarctica. ...
UAH researchers use Earth observations to identify damage, impacts from earthquakes in Turkey
Mar 28, 2023
Two researchers from the UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) are using Earth observations to help those on the ground in Turkey make informed decisions. ...
UAH graduate student transforms hobby into successful Antarctic experiment
Mar 27, 2023
First-year Atmospheric and Earth Sciences (AES) graduate student Todd McKinney has transformed his hobby into a low-cost, meteorological tool to study how air parcels travel within the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in Antarctica. ...
National Geographic features UAH Ph.D. candidate’s research in thundersnow
Jan 26, 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 thunde...
UAH builds, installs low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how flash droughts impact agriculture
Dec 15, 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 soi...
Long-term Western precipitation trends are stable, says UAH atmospheric scientist Dr. John Christy
Dec 15, 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 professor ...