Center for Applied Optics an innovator in large optics and nanoscale photonics
May 18, 2016
Combining classical optics research with nano and micro devices, the UAH Center for Applied Optics (CAO) continues its 30-plus year legacy as a gateway between industry and academia. Dr. Patrick Reardon, associate CAO director and assistant pr...
Bitzer to study lightning that sizzles
May 06, 2016
Most cloud-to-ground lightning (about eight of nine events) is actually a rapid series of strikes, pop-pop-pop, each lasting a few hundreds of millionths of a second, too fast for our eyes to separate into individual events. ...
Second strongest shock wave found in merging galaxy clusters
May 04, 2016
The discovery by a physics doctoral student at UAH of the second-strongest merger shock in clusters of galaxies ever observed has generated excitement that is opening doors to further scientific exploration. ...
Tracking climate change? Use the daily highs
May 02, 2016
Scientists using long-term surface temperature data to track climate change caused by greenhouse gases would be best served using only daily high temperature readings without the nighttime lows, according to new research at UAH. ...
UAH helps U.S. Army see through the rain
Mar 08, 2016
Nathan Lawrence knew the experiment he was helping with involved monitoring artificial rain in a U.S. Army lab at Redstone Arsenal, so he wore a rain jacket. ...
In a U.S. first, UAH team measures lightning-produced ozone with Lidar
Feb 16, 2016
Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have used UAH's Rocket-city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3 QET) Lidar to measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United Stat...
Meeting will plan storm research campaign
Nov 05, 2015
More than 100 of the top severe storms research scientists in the U.S., social scientists and weather service personnel will gather in Huntsville next week to help plan the largest severe weather research campaign ever conducted in the southern U.S...
Amirazodi wins scholarship for locating villages by satellite
Oct 05, 2015
Suppose you have a drug that can eliminate a parasite that causes painful skin diseases and can lead to permanent blindness, but the people who need the drug are semi-nomadic villagers living in a deep and massive South American rain forest. ...
UAH teams for severe weather research
Oct 05, 2015
UAH, with its NASA and NOAA partners, is at "the epicenter" of research into techniques that will use data from a new generation of weather satellites to predict severe weather, with three new projects funded by NASA. ...
UAH joins experimental group that could create a new field of science
Sep 24, 2015
UAH is now part of potentially groundbreaking experiments to detect and discover gravitational waves, a detection that could alter our physical understanding of the universe. ...