UAH researchers use Earth observations to identify damage, impacts from earthquakes in Turkey
Mar 28, 2023
Two researchers from the UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) are using Earth observations to help those on the ground in Turkey make informed decisions. ...
UAH graduate student transforms hobby into successful Antarctic experiment
Mar 27, 2023
First-year Atmospheric and Earth Sciences (AES) graduate student Todd McKinney has transformed his hobby into a low-cost, meteorological tool to study how air parcels travel within the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in Antarctica. ...
Team from UAH Colleges of Science, Engineering take 2nd place in DLA Defense Data Grand Prix (Heat 3)
Mar 21, 2023
A team of students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Colleges of Science and Engineering recently took second place in Heat 3 of a national Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Defense Data Grand Prix competition put on by the Acquisitio...
Physics Ph.D. candidate visits Congress to advocate for Optics and Photonics
Mar 21, 2023
Kirtan Dixit, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, traveled to Washington, D.C., February 28 to March 1 to update members ...
Undergraduate Research celebrates 9th annual UAH Research Horizons Poster Session
Mar 10, 2023
On March 7, undergraduates at The University of Alabama in Huntsville participated in the ninth annual UAH Research Horizons Poster Session at the Charger Union. A total of 34 projects were presented by the students who conducted the work, with sel...
UAH-led statewide effort to apply plasma technologies reaches out to broad coalition
Mar 08, 2023
A statewide UAH led effort to fund, develop and commercialize plasma research and the high-tech workforce it requires is reaching out to a broad coalition of researchers, students, businesspeople and the public with a goal of stimulating thousands ...
National Geographic features UAH Ph.D. candidate’s research in thundersnow
Jan 26, 2023
Growing up in the snowy winters of Michigan, Sebastian Harkema, a Ph.D. candidate student in The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) department of Atmospheric & Earth Science, still remembers the first time he heard the roar of thunde...
2023 applications are open for UAH AEOP STEM apprenticeships and fellowships for high school students
Jan 18, 2023
The Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville has officially announced the opening of 2023 applications for STEM apprenticeships and fellowships. ...
UAH builds, installs low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how flash droughts impact agriculture
Dec 15, 2022
To help farmers become more drought-resilient and better characterize drought impacts when seeking federal assistance, the Earth System Science Center at UAH is assembling and installing 50, low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how quickly soi...
Long-term Western precipitation trends are stable, says UAH atmospheric scientist Dr. John Christy
Dec 15, 2022
Over the past 130 years regions that provide the major source for spring and summer runoff have not shown a long-term pattern that indicates a permanent decline in precipitation, according to research by Dr. John Christy, a distinguished professor ...