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 » 2018-05-24 18:34:23 Earth system science major finds flood of undergraduate research opportunities at UAH Details Published: 24 May 2018 It wasn’t hard for Angela Burke to narrow down her choices when she set out to earn her bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field. "Nothing in STEM held my interest except meteorology!" she says with a … Read more » 2018-05-11 20:29:30 Carey honored for mentoring graduate students Details Published: 11 May 2018 Dr. David Berkowitz, dean of UAH’s Graduate School, presents the 2018 graduate mentoring award to Dr. Larry Carey, chair of the Atmospheric Science Department, during the university’s annual awards day ceremony. (UAH Photo/Michael … 2018-05-11 13:52:50 Shah wins Woods Hole fellowship Details Published: 11 May 2018 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — From the choked air of Mumbai, India, to the mostly untracked rain forests of Ecuador and the Amazon River basin, UAH’s Ankur Shah is trying to find a sustainable balance between living a modern, high technology lifestyle … 2018-04-20 19:21:51 UAH low-cost weather stations to join irrigation/weather study Details Published: 20 April 2018 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 19, 2018) — A grid of low-cost weather stations built at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will spend part of this summer in Nebraska helping scientists learn more about how large-scale irrigation might be … 2018-04-04 16:37:50 UAH professor’s early-stage proposal for “Marsbees” selected to receive NASA funding Details Published: 04 April 2018 A proposal on Marsbees submitted by Dr. Chang-kwon Kang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UAH, was one of only 25 selected to receive a 2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) … Read more » 2018-03-15 17:07:50 Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA’s EarthKAM project Details Published: 15 March 2018 What does a hurricane look like from 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface? What do images taken of the ice caps over the past few years tell us about how they’ve changed? These are the types of questions that middle school students in … Read more » 2018-02-27 18:14:57 Lightning mapping sensor will provide UAH scientists with unique stereo view Details Published: 27 February 2018 With the scheduled March 1 launch of a new weather satellite, scientists at UAH are looking forward to getting a unique stereo view of lightning in storms over the United … Read more » 1234...