UAH part of team researching tropical trees hit by lightning
Jul 13, 2017
Trees and lightning generally don't play well together. However, while many trees struck by lightning explode or ignite or are otherwise instantly killed, other trees (especially in the tropics) seem less effected by lightning strikes and live for ...
UAH team plans solar eclipse trip to study eclipse-related weather
Jul 06, 2017
In August, a team of researchers and students from UAH will join scientists and tourists from around the world streaming into the path of a total solar eclipse that will span the U.S. from coast to coast. ...
Zank awarded the International Space Science Institute’s Johannes Geiss Fellowship
Jun 27, 2017
Dr. Gary Zank, who serves as both chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at UAH, has been named the 2017 recipient of the International Space Science Institute’s Johannes Ge...
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...