John Christy

Climatologists obtain grant to develop new climate sensitivity information

Sep 18, 2018

Climatologists at UAH have received a grant from the United States Dept. of Energy to develop a new method of determining how the Earth鈥檚 climate is responding to greenhouse gases that they think will be more accurate than current methods. ...

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Can Billions of Corn Plants Affect the Weather in Nebraska?

Jul 11, 2018

When thinking of irrigation, most people imagine the huge dry valleys of California 鈥� Sacramento, San Joaquin, Coachella, Imperial 鈥� where so much of our food and fiber is grown. However, it is the state of Nebraska that slakes the thirst of mo...

Angela Burke

Earth system science major finds flood of undergraduate research opportunities at UAH

May 24, 2018

It wasn鈥檛 hard for Angela Burke to narrow down her choices when she set out to earn her bachelor鈥檚 degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field. "Nothing in STEM held my interest except meteorology!" she says with a laugh....

Dr. David Berkowitz, dean of UAH鈥檚 Graduate School, presents the 2018 graduate mentoring award to Dr. Larry Carey, chair of the Atmospheric Science Department, during the university鈥檚 annual awards day ceremony. (UAH Photo/Michael Mercier)

Carey honored for mentoring graduate students

May 11, 2018

Dr. David Berkowitz, dean of UAH鈥檚 Graduate School, presents the 2018 graduate mentoring award to Dr. Larry Carey, chair of the Atmospheric Science Department, during the university鈥檚 annual awards day ceremony. (UAH Photo/Michael Mercier) &nb...

Shah wins Woods Hole fellowship

Shah wins Woods Hole fellowship

May 11, 2018

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. 鈥� From the choked air of Mumbai, India, to the mostly untracked rain forests of Ecuador and the Amazon River basin, UAH鈥檚 Ankur Shah is trying to find a sustainable balance between living a modern, high technology lifestyle and...

UAH low-cost weather stations to join irrigation/weather study

UAH low-cost weather stations to join irrigation/weather study

Apr 20, 2018

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 19, 2018) 鈥� A grid of low-cost weather stations built at 草榴社区 (UAH) will spend part of this summer in Nebraska helping scientists learn more about how large-scale irrigation might be changi...

Dr. Chang-kwon Kang

UAH professor鈥檚 early-stage proposal for 鈥淢arsbees鈥� selected to receive NASA funding

Apr 04, 2018

A proposal on Marsbees submitted by Dr. Chang-kwon Kang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UAH, was one of only 25 selected to receive a 2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) award. ...

Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA鈥檚 EarthKAM project

Earth system science students at UAH serve as team members on NASA鈥檚 EarthKAM project

Mar 15, 2018

What does a hurricane look like from 400 kilometers above the Earth鈥檚 surface? What do images taken of the ice caps over the past few years tell us about how they鈥檝e changed? These are the types of questions that middle school students in dozen...

Dr. Hugh Christian

Lightning mapping sensor will provide UAH scientists with unique stereo view

Feb 27, 2018

With the scheduled March 1 launch of a new weather satellite, scientists at UAH are looking forward to getting a unique stereo view of lightning in storms over the United States. ...

Zhao Amiri

Two UAH researchers undertake cross-college lead poisoning study of rural Alabama town

Dec 13, 2017

Dr. Azita Amiri and Dr. Shuang Zhao are helping raise awareness about lead poisoning among children in Uniontown, Ala. ...