UAH team readies GLM test unit
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Sept. 14, 2016) — Two pieces of hardware designed to test the next three Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLM) before they launch have been completed…
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Geographic travels lead Hu to UAH
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Sept. 29, 2016) — Coming out of high school, Leiqiu Hu chose to study geography because she thought it would involve a lot of travel, which she enjoys. On one…
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Walt Peterson, from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, takes part in a discussion during the annual two-day meeting of the Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed…
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Analysis of trees struck by lightning
Jeff Burchfield, right, a research assistant in UAH’s Earth System Science Center, readies straps that will hold a lightning sensor in place on a tower at a Smithsonian…
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Ex-bomber mechanic studies heat islands
Photo above: Dawn White puts finishing touches on a presentation explaining her summer research project to develop a heat stress index for both Huntsville and San Jose,…
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Christy donating award to job-training charity
Photo caption: Dr. John Christy, director of UAH’s Earth System Science Center, right, presents a $10,000 award check to Elaine Dickson, director of the Christian…
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GIS/Remote Sensing Laboratory Gets New Computers!
Shane Smith and Ryan Driver, the IT support team for the Earth System Science Center, remove antique computers (almost five years old!) from the Atmospheric Science…
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UAH alumna Crowe is thinking strategically
(pictured above) UAH alumna Christina Crowe was a meteorologist in the Huntsville NWS forecast office for about four years (Courtesy photo) When Dr. Louis Uccellini, the director…
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TEMPO team meets with scientists
Photo caption above: NOAA’s Brad Pierce introduces the first scientific sessions to a crowded room of scientists in UAH’s Shelby Center during the recent TEMPO…
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Making science from pretty pictures?
UAH’s Apke uses satellite scans to study thunderstorms HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Can you tell much about a thunderstorm by starting at the top? Jason Apke, a doctoral…
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UAH to host TEMPO Applications Workshop
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — A workshop to help scientists and the operational air quality community get up to speed on using data products from the NASA TEMPO satellite is scheduled…
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ACF water stress tool set to ‘go live’
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (June 21, 2016) — An experimental tool to give farmers, government officials, environmental groups and other stakeholders an improved estimate of how much…
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Mystery of powerful lightning at sea not solved, completely
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (June 20, 2016) — The mystery of why most of the most powerful lightning on Earth happens over the oceans isn’t solved, but a few of the usual…
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Weigel wins prestigious Raskin scholarship
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (June 13, 2016) — Before Amanda Weigel makes her invited talk next month at the biannual meeting of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP),…
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UAH to host workshop on TGFs
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — The University of Alabama in Huntsville and its Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) are hosting an international workshop on Terrestrial…
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Bitzer to study lightning that sizzles
Most cloud-to-ground lightning (about eight of nine) is actually a rapid series of strikes, pop-pop-pop, each lasting a few hundreds of millionths of a second, too fast for our…
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Tracking climate change? Use the daily highs
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 29, 2016) — Scientists using long-term surface temperature data to track climate change caused by greenhouse gases would be best served using only…
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Etten-Bohm named ESS top scholar
Montana Etten-Bohm received the award for the Atmospheric Science Department’s top undergraduate scholar during recent honors day events. In addition to keeping her grades…
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Clayton named UAH’s 1st NOAA Hollings scholar
Adam Clayton, a sophomore majoring in Earth system science, has been named UAH’s first NOAA Hollings scholar. As a Hollings scholar, Clayton will receive scholarship support…
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4 win AMS presentation awards
A quartet of ATS graduate students won individual awards for their presentations and posters at the American Meteorological Society’s most recent meeting in New Orleans.…
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UAH helps Army see through the rain
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (March 8, 2016) — Nathan Lawrence knew the experiment he was helping with involved monitoring artificial rain in an Army lab at Redstone Arsenal, so he wore a…
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NOAA, University of Alabama-Huntsville and Partners Kick Off Tornado Study
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 29, 2016) — Tornadoes will be the target as researchers spend the next two months in northern Alabama collecting data as part of the Verification of the…
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Christopher Phillips, left, and William Iwasco, both UAH graduate students in atmospheric science, mount an experimental weather station atop UAH’s SWIRLL building as a…
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Dr. Andi Eka Sakya, director general of Indonesia's Agency for Meteorology, Climatologyand Geophysics, and Larry Carey, chairman of UAH's Atmospheric Science Department, recently…
UAH-led talks and poster presentations at the 2016 AMS convention in New Orleans
If a person wanted to attend as many of the 27 UAH presentations and talks (including one invited talk), plus the 23 posters, at the ongoing…
UAH helps Army see through the rain
Meeting will plan storm research campaign
Congratulations Retha Mecikalski!
ESS/ATS crowd featured at research festival
Kaulfus wins EPRI award
A project using real-world air pollution data to check the accuracy of an air pollution dispersion model helped Aaron Kaulfus, a UAH doctoral student in atmospheric…
Clayton wins von Braun research award
It seemed almost everyone in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, knew Adam Clayton was interested in the weather. He was on the local radio during severe weather events. He…
Meeting will plan storm research campaign
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Oct. 5, 2015) — More than 100 of the top severe storms research scientists in the U.S., social scientists and weather service personnel will…
UAH studies ‘natural’ air pollution
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Oct. 26, 2015) — Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and Rice University in Houston will use data from satellites in…
Team with UAH students wins DEVELOP prize
Two UAH students were on the team that won the top prize in a virtual poster competition between participants in NASA’s DEVELOP program this summer. Earth…
