Kenyan Kotikot came to UAH to study … Kenya

It isn’t a great distance from the livestock raising area of west Kenya — where Susan Kotikot grew up — to the country’s tea plantations, so…

UAH students helping guide aircraft sensor over lightning

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (April 19, 2017) — A line of thunderstorms flashes and rumbles over southeastern Kansas into Oklahoma and Missouri, sending clouds towering as much as…

Second year of tornado study begins

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. — and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part…

UAH undergrads to launch balloons for V-SE tornado research campaign

EDITOR’S NOTE: A press conference highlighting activities during the second year of the VORTEX-SE severe weather campaign, and featuring the NOAA P-3 research aircraft, has been…

Lightning sensor launch Saturday brings decades of work to fruition

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 15, 2017) — In the mid 1990s, when NASA built two identical Lightning Imaging Sensors (just in case), Hugh Christian planned all along…

Radar study targeting wind events at NASA, Air Force launch facilities

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 8, 2017) — Rockets rolling to their launch towers at both the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in…

Daniel wins AGU competition in visualization, story telling

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Nov. 17, 2016) — Mid-December is going to be a busy time for UAH Earth system science major Allison Daniel. Right after graduation on…