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Weather satellite wanders through time, space, causing stray warming to contaminate data

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (March 29, 2018) — In the late 1990s, the NOAA-14 weather satellite went wandering through time and space, apparently changing the record of Earth’s…
Launch of 2nd lightning mapping sensor will give scientists a new ‘stereo effect’

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 26, 2018) — With the scheduled March 1 launch of a new weather satellite, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are looking forward…
New mural!

UAH ESS undergrad Helen Baldwin and Mann K. Giri, a graduate student from Tennessee State, put the final touches on a new mural in the UAH/NASA student geospatial research lab on…
Three earn inaugural ESSC awards

Three members of the Earth System Science Center staff were recently honored for their special service to the center and its partners. The inaugural ESSC awards were presented to…
UAH staff, students answer call for help after hurricanes

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — For almost two months after Hurricane Maria came ashore in Puerto Rico and threw the island into darkness, UAH’s Lori Schultz and Jordan Bell watched…
UAH uses satellites to improve crop yield estimates

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Dec. 6, 2017) — A team that includes a graduate student receiving his Ph.D. on Sunday from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has taken a major step…
Christian to present Franklin lecture at AGU

Dr. Hugh J. Christian, a principal research scientist in UAH’s Earth System Science Center and the leader of UAH’s lightning research group, will present the Benjamin…
New research yields old result: Climate warming slow, steady

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Nov. 29, 2017) — The rate at which Earth’s atmosphere is warming has not significantly accelerated over the past 23 years, according to research at The…
UAH students link ISS photos to classrooms around the world

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Oct. 26, 2017) — A small team of students from the Atmospheric Science Department at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is getting ready for a…
Link found between forest fire smoke, pollution events

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Oct. 11, 2017) — Smoke from forest fires might contribute to more than half of certain gritty air pollution events in the continental U.S. during the summer,…
UAH group is adding chamber to study atmospheric process

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Sept. 26, 2017) — Graduate students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are putting finishing touches on hardware they hope will help them better…
Vesalainen wins poster award

Tiia Vesalainen, a graduate student in UAH’s atmospheric science program, received the award for the best research poster in her session on Aug. 10 at the Oak Ridge…
Putting a light on poverty in Thailand

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Aug. 16, 2017) — Can an astronaut in space look down at a spot on the Earth and tell if the people living there are wealthy or poor? She might, if she looked…
UAH welcomes Fat Daddio’s to world of weather research

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Aug. 17, 2017) — Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are welcoming Fat Daddio’s cake pans to the world of ‘high…
McVey helps Rwanda map, preserve wetlands

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Aug. 9, 2017) — For tiny, overcrowded Rwanda, preserving its ecologically important wetlands is a big challenge, made more challenging by the lack of reliable…

Herndon maps water in African desert

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Aug. 4, 2017) — For thousands of generations, Africans concerned about their water supply looked to passing clouds for relief. Now, thanks in part…

UAH designated Center of Academic Excellence in geospatial sciences

UAH’s Atmospheric Science Department has been named a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in geospatial sciences by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the U.S. Geological…

UAH helps Army see through the rain

Meeting will plan storm research campaign

Congratulations Retha Mecikalski!

ESS/ATS crowd featured at research festival

Longoria does the research sprint

When you have only three months to complete a research project, it can feel like a 12-week sprint — especially if the project includes building hardware.…

UAH part of team researching tropical trees hit by lightning

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (July 12, 2017) — Trees and lightning generally don’t play well together. However, while many trees struck by lightning explode or ignite or are…

UAH team plans solar eclipse trip to study eclipse-related weather

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (July 6, 2017) — In August, a team of scientists and students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will join scientists from…

Satellite data finds peak in a daily lightning cycle

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (June 8, 2017) — No matter where you are on middle Earth (from about 38° S to 38° N*), there is a daily cycle…

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…