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...
NASA reviewing UAH-led proposal for next-generation lunar astrophysics mission
Jan 19, 2017
Next-generation astrophysics research using the moon as home base and UAH as its world-class data center are the goals of a multiyear, $237 million NASA satellite mission proposed by a UAH astrophysicist’s collaborative group. ...
UAH has role in neutron spectrometer being tested for manned spaceflight
Nov 29, 2016
The detector and electronics in a new neutron spectrometer that’s being tested in space to monitor radiation for future manned NASA space missions were built and tested at the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) at UAH. ...
Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling
Nov 22, 2016
Mid-December is going to be a busy time for University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Earth system science major Allison Daniel. ...
GLM launch will cap 36 years from idea to flight for UAH researcher
Nov 18, 2016
Dr. Hugh Christian is getting ready to watch 36 years of work rocket into space as science awaits the opportunity to better monitor the intensity and progress of storms to save lives and property on Earth. ...
UAH seeks science behind Sand Mountain tornadoes
Oct 20, 2016
Squeezed upward over the big toe of the Cumberland foothills, wind flowing north in front of a storm system accelerates over Sand Mountain in the northeastern corner of Alabama – until it hits the far edge. ...
UAH collaboration with NASA has ‘changed the textbooks’
Oct 20, 2016
If it weren’t for the unique and decades-long collaboration between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and UAH, Dr. Michael Brigg’s research might not ever have gotten off the ground. ...
New UAH lab seeks answers to particle, cloud mysteries
Oct 06, 2016
A new laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is setting out to solve some of the fundamental mysteries about one of the common compounds floating in the atmosphere and what effects (if any) that compound has on climate change. ...