NASA fellowship will fund UAH space science student’s research on solar wind
Jun 20, 2017
Bofeng Tang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has received a 2017/2018 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) to fund his research into the transport of electrons and electron heat flux in the solar wind. The pr...
Satellite data finds peak in a daily lightning cycle
Jun 08, 2017
No matter where you are on middle Earth, there is a daily cycle to both the frequency and the power of lightning. ...
UAH's Sarthak Dasadia completes prestigious New York Data Incubator program
Jun 01, 2017
Sarthak Dasadia ('17 PhD Physics) a post-doctoral researcher (Physicist and Data Scientist) at UAH recently completed a prestigious data science fellowship, The Data Incubator (TDI) 2017. ...
UAH, NASA partner in climate research that’s essential here and abroad
May 17, 2017
Developing countries count on a solid partnership between UAH and NASA to manage climate risks and land use. ...
UAH students helping guide aircraft sensor over lightning
Apr 20, 2017
A line of thunderstorms flashes and rumbles over southeastern Kansas into Oklahoma and Missouri, sending clouds towering as much as eight and a half miles into the pre-dawn Easter darkness. ...
UAH supplies critical systems for NASA super pressure balloon
Apr 10, 2017
Critical systems for NASA’s Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) Super Pressure Balloon have been supplied and calibrated by UAH. ...
VORTEX-SE tornado study brings 11 institutions to UAH
Mar 23, 2017
The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. — and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part of the country — will get an in-depth probe this spring, as researchers from 11 research institutions around the c...
UAH undergrads to launch balloons for Vortex-SE tornado research
Mar 21, 2017
Bad weather in March, April and early May will bring a virtual cloud of weather balloons to North Alabama, as scientists from around the U.S. gather to study the challenges of predicting which storms spin up tornadoes across the Southeastern states...
Lightning sensor launch Saturday brings decades of work to fruition
Feb 15, 2017
In the mid 1990s, when NASA built two identical Lightning Imaging Sensors (just in case), Dr. Hugh Christian planned all along to send the flight spare into space. ...
Radar study targeting wind events at NASA, Air Force launch facilities
Feb 09, 2017
Rockets rolling to their launch towers at both the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida (and the people who work on them) may soon be a little bit safer, thanks to research in the Atmospheric Science Departmen...