UAH seeks new insights to study lightning
Apr 03, 2015
Can old data provide new insights about lightning and the physics of severe weather? A scientist at UAH thinks it can. Supported by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, UAH's Dr. Philip Bitzer will spend the next two ye...
Ultra-thin silicon films create vibrant optical colors
Mar 23, 2015
A new technology, which creates a rainbow of optical colors with ultra-thin layers of silicon, has been recently demonstrated by a research group at UAH. ...
Morning is the time for powerful lightning
Mar 17, 2015
Wherever you are, if it's 8 a.m. it's time for the kids to be in school, time perhaps for a second cup of coffee, and time for the most powerful lightning strokes of the day. ...
Doctoral student wins best presentation award
Jan 29, 2015
Retha Mecikalski, a doctoral student in atmospheric science at UAH, won the best student presentation award at the seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data during the recent 2015 American Meteorological Societ...
Graduate student lands $400,000 laser technology grant for team
Jan 27, 2015
UAH student landed a $400,000 competitive grant from the Dept. of Defense High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office (JTO) for a team effort to develop and test diode-pumped xenon laser technology for the U.S. military. UAH's Amanda Black Clark is ...
Deadline for undergraduate research program approaches
Jan 16, 2015
Undergraduate students at UAH have until Jan. 31 to apply for the 12th annual Expanding Horizons through Research Program, A Research or Creative Experience for Undergraduates (RCEU) summer program. ...
UAH partners in integrated photonics institute effort
Jan 13, 2015
UAH has partnered with four other research universities and a consortium of photonics industry leaders in an effort to win a $110 million federal contract for an integrated photonics institute that would be housed in the $70 million Florida Advance...
Sudden jump in a storm's lightning might warn a supercell is forming
Jan 07, 2015
A sudden jump in the number of lightning strikes inside a garden-variety thunderstorm might soon give forecasters a new tool for predicting severe weather and issuing timely warnings, according to research at UAH. The sudden increase in lightning ...
The dust devil and the details: Spinning up a storm on Mars
Dec 18, 2014
Spinning up a dust devil in the thin air of Mars requires a stronger updraft than is needed to create a similar vortex on Earth, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Early results from this research in UAH's ...
Gamma-ray flashes from lightning are both more complex, common
Dec 16, 2014
Early evidence shows there is nothing at all special about thunderstorms whose cloud-to-cloud lightning bolts produce flashes of gamma rays, according to research led by scientists at UAH. "These TGFs (terrestrial gamma-ray flashes) can come from ...