Dr. Gary Zank interviewed by Huntsville news station WHNT
Jun 16, 2016
Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson for an interview on how far we've come in the space age, as well as various other topics. &...
UAH graduate student’s research into sun’s effect on space weather gets NASA boost
Jun 09, 2016
A UAH doctoral student's research into how the sun mediates fundamental forces that affect space weather has received support from NASA's Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program. ...
SPA professor receives a College of Science Research Excellence Award
Apr 08, 2015
Gang Li, an Associate Professor of Space Science, received an award for research excellence from the CoS at the Honors Convocation (pictured). The award is for "demonstrated excellence in leading edge research as evidenced by peer-reviewed publicat...
Fifteen students win at Research Horizons Poster Day
Apr 18, 2016
Fifteen students were winners at the second annual Research Horizons Day Poster Session held in M. Louis Salmon Library's Student Success Center Tuesday, April 12. ...
Paper by SPA professor selected one of 12 classic papers by Journal of Plasma Physics
Jun 04, 2014
June 4, 2014 - The 1992 journal article "The equations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics" by G. P. Zank and W. H. Matthaeus was selected as one of 12 classic papers by the Journal of Plasma Physics. The papers were chosen by the journal's editorial boa...
Space Science professor awarded $1.4M in federal grants
Jun 03, 2014
June 3, 2014 - Nikolai Pogorelov, a Space Science professor, was awarded two large federal grants to study the heliosphere using computer models. The first project, funded under the Heliospheric Grand Challenges NASA program for $1,040,000, will inve...
SPA faculty and students showcase their work at the 2013 Fall AGU meeting
Dec 16, 2013
December 13, 2013 - The SPA department made another strong showing in the SPA (Space Physics and Aeronomy) section of the 2013 American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. Our faculty presented 6 oral talks and 5 posters, whi...
CSPAR Researcher Rob Preece Featured in Media Discussing Massive Gamma Ray Burst
Nov 21, 2013
Dr. Rob Preece, CSPAR researcher and faculty member of the UAH Department of Space Science, has been featured in numerous media accounts of a powerful recent gamma ray burst. A time chart of GRB 130427A can be found here. ...
Two student papers published in Astrophysical Journal
Nov 12, 2013
November 11, 2013 - The Astrophysical Journal published two research papers by SPA graduate students, Eric Zirnstein and Udara Senanayake. Eric developed a computational code that allows him to calculate the amount of energetic neutral atom (ENA) flu...