Katherine Davidson takes 2nd place in prestigious 2021 CEDAR workshop
Jul 08, 2021
The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Program is a focused Global Change program sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division to enhance the capability of groun...
When the James Webb telescope launches, 25 years of UAH R&D involvement will soar
Jul 07, 2021
After a scheduled November launch, when NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) achieves orbit and unfurls the 18 gold-coated beryllium segments of its 6.5-meter primary mirror, over two decades of crucial UAH partnership in the project will als...
UAH-led space weather prediction research could be critical to U.S. Space Command
Jun 24, 2021
Research to improve space weather predictions by Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, will boost abilities crucial to the success of the defense mission of the U.S. Spac...
Alumnus and NASA inventor Jonathan Lee is driven to battle COVID-19 after losing his father
May 26, 2021
For NASA inventor Jonathan Lee, an alumnus of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, the global pandemic could not be more personal: it took away his father last year, spurring Lee to join the battl...
Alumna Dr. Kimberly Robinson named U.S. Space & Rocket Center CEO
May 12, 2021
Dr. Kimberly Robinson, an alumna of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, has been named Executive Director and CEO of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC). The hiring was announced by the Al...
UAH presents 2021 University Awards for Excellence to faculty, staff
Apr 20, 2021
On April 16, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, hosted the annual University Awards for Excellence ceremony virtually to recognize the contributions of the university’s faculty, staff member...
Dr. Gary Zank featured in AAS Article
Apr 14, 2021
A study led by CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank titled “The Origin of Switchbacks in the Solar Corona: Linear Theory” was recently featured by the American Astronomical Society. See the AAS article here: https://aasnova.org/202...
Parker Solar Probe - Update on Switchbacks
Mar 09, 2021
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet. This ocean was spiked wi...
CSPAR’s James Adams elevated to senior member by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Mar 08, 2021
Dr. James Adams, a principal research scientist at the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been elevated to senior member by the In...
A Lucky Spacecraft Alignment Has Recorded a Huge, Evolving Solar Eruption
Jan 25, 2021
CSPAR scientists were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The Letter exploits joint observations of the same interplanetary coronal mass ejection by widely separated spacecraft to study, for the first time, the turbulent evolutio...
