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...
Dr. Gary Zank Talks With WHNT News 19
Nov 23, 2020
Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson to discuss several different subjects. See the interview here: https://whnt.com/news/leadership-perspectives/dr-gar...
Dr. Ying Zou, Assistant Professor in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
Aug 31, 2020
Written by Katherine MacGilvray When asked what makes the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) a desirable institution for space physicists, Dr. Ying Zou, Assistant Professor in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (C...
UAH leads $3.2 million solar software model effort to aid in space weather predictions
Sep 01, 2020
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA have awarded $3.2 million over three years to development of open-source solar atmosphere and inner heliosphere software models useful to predict space weather, a project led by The University of Alaba...
AAS: "A Conversation With Science Editor Gary Zank"
Aug 19, 2020
In this video, Gary Zank chats about his research and his role as a Scientific Editor for the American Academy of Sciences Journals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2PjeuaXB6Y...
NASA awards its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal to Dr. Michael Briggs
Aug 10, 2020
NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for sustained performance that embodies multiple contributions on NASA projects, programs or initiatives to Dr. Michael S. Briggs, an assistant director of the Center for Space Plasma and Ae...
Plasma Science Decadal Stresses Coordination Gaps and Workforce Instabilities
Jun 16, 2020
The National Academies decadal assessment of plasma science released last month describes funding and workforce instabilities that threaten the status of the U.S. as a world leader in the field. It recommends that federal science ...
UAH looks beyond the sky again with central space science role in two NASA missions
Feb 14, 2022
Fresh off successful direct involvement in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Parker Solar Probe (PSP) in roles that included optics, hardware, software, testing analytics, computational modeling and big data processing and disseminatio...
CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank Featured by Huntsville News Stations
Feb 05, 2020
Dr. Gary Zank's role in analyzing the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter data was featured by a few Huntsville news stations yesterday. Below are links to the articles. WHNT News 19: https://whnt.com/2020/02/04/uah-research-team-prep...