UAH graduate student one of three awarded prestigious NASA Fellowship

UAH graduate student one of three awarded prestigious NASA Fellowship

Aug 04, 2015

Anthony DeStefano is used to parsing complex, highly technical information. As a Ph.D. candidate at UAH, he spends his days at the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) writing code to calculate the trajectories of heavy atoms from...

Paper by SPA professor selected one of 12 classic papers by Journal of Plasma Physics

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

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

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

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

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...