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UAH, Spelman College join in research to improve air quality monitoring

Oct 13, 2021

Improved air quality monitoring is the goal of a research collaboration to develop a machine learning model that involves UAH and Spelman College in Atlanta. ...

UAH AES students tie off a weather balloon in preparation to launch ahead of Hurricane Ida's outer spiral rain bands.

UAH students collect crucial data in Hurricane Ida

Aug 29, 2021

A group of students with the University of Alabama in Huntsville's Atmospheric & Earth Science Department deployed on Saturday to collect data in Louisiana as Hurricane Ida came ashore. ...

AES students deploy into Hurricane Ida

Aug 28, 2021

As of Friday, August 27, Hurricane Ida continues to steadily strengthen in the northwest Caribbean, south of Cuba. This system will continue northwest entering the southeastern Gulf late Friday and into early Saturday, with continued strengthening ex...

Paper on climate model’s warming bias co-authored by Dr. Christy is top download

Jul 26, 2021

A research paper that found a significant warming bias globally in the newest climate models and was co-authored by the interim vice president for research and economic development at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been cited by ...

AES Student Achievements

Mar 01, 2021

Sebastian Harkema, Todd McKinney, Corey Amiot, and Holley Kenward are featured for recent achievements in Atmospheric and Earth Science. Holley Kenward Received the Best Student Poster Award at the Fourth Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and...

UAH helps develop air quality monitoring application for Thailand

Nov 23, 2020

Thailand will get help mitigating air pollution from a new satellite data application co-developed by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. ...

Dr. Jessica Gaskin wins 2020 Alumni of Achievement award for College of Science

Oct 08, 2020

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, announced that Dr. Jessica A. Gaskin has won the 2020 Alumni of Achievement Award for the College of Science. ...

Dr. Parisa Mostafavi is 2020 Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award honoree

Sep 30, 2020

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) announced today that Dr. Parisa Mostafavi is the 2020 Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award honoree. Dr. Mostafavi has a BS in engineering physics and a master's in plasma engineering. She was awarded h...

UAH interim science dean gets $600,000 to create more accurate analysis of soil moisture

Sep 10, 2020

A two-year, $600,000 grant to create a more accurate analysis of soil moisture for drought depiction, agricultural assessments and flood potential has been awarded to the interim dean of the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsv...

Study of how COVID tourism decline affects Belize’s coastal waters earns NASA grant

Sep 04, 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 Uni...

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