UAH undergrad co-leads project using satellite images of Thailand
Aug 18, 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? ...
UAH welcomes Fat Daddio's to world of weather research
Aug 18, 2017
Scientists at UAH are welcoming Fat Daddio's cake pans to the world of 'high powered' weather research. ...
UAH Earth system science major helps map, preserve wetlands in Rwanda
Aug 10, 2017
For tiny, overcrowded Rwanda, preserving its ecologically important wetlands is a big challenge, made more challenging by the lack of reliable maps. How can you protect what you have in the future if you don鈥檛 know what you have in the present? ...
UAH graduate student maps water in African desert
Aug 07, 2017
For thousands of generations, Africans concerned about their water supply looked to passing clouds for relief. Now, thanks in part to NASA's SERVIR program and several students and researchers at UAH, many of Africa's leaders will increasingly be l...
UAH designated Center of Academic Excellence in geospatial sciences
Aug 01, 2017
The Department of Atmospheric Science at UAH has been named a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in geospatial sciences by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the U.S. Geological Survey. ...
UAH Earth system science student does the 鈥渞esearch sprint鈥�
Jul 20, 2017
When you have only three months to complete a research project, it can feel like a 12-week sprint 鈥� especially if the project includes building hardware. "You have to work quickly, and half the time I was building equipment," says Julian Longoria...
UAH part of team researching tropical trees hit by lightning
Jul 13, 2017
Trees and lightning generally don't play well together. However, while many trees struck by lightning explode or ignite or are otherwise instantly killed, other trees (especially in the tropics) seem less effected by lightning strikes and live for ...
SWIRLL building attains LEED certification status
Jun 06, 2017
The Severe Weather Institute 鈥� Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) building at UAH recently attained green building Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified status. ...
VORTEX-SE tornado study brings 11 institutions to UAH
Mar 23, 2017
The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. 鈥� and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part of the country 鈥� will get an in-depth probe this spring, as researchers from 11 research institutions around the c...
MSc Research Assistantship in Urban Remote Sensing Now Open at UAH
Mar 22, 2017
Applications are invited for a 2-year graduate research assistant at the Master鈥檚 level beginning summer/fall 2017 in the Earth System Science (ESS) or Atmospheric Science (ATS) program of the Department of Atmospheric Science at UAH. ...
