Todd McKinney launches an aerial balloon in snowy Antartica

UAH graduate student transforms hobby into successful Antarctic experiment

Mar 27, 2023

First-year Atmospheric and Earth Sciences (AES) graduate student Todd McKinney has transformed his hobby into a low-cost, meteorological tool to study how air parcels travel within the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in Antarctica. ...

Ronan Lucey and Kaylee Sharp assess power outages in turkey from a computer

UAH researchers use Earth observations to identify damage, impacts from earthquakes in Turkey

Mar 28, 2023

Two researchers from the UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) are using Earth observations to help those on the ground in Turkey make informed decisions. ...

Sebastian Harkema

National Geographic features UAH Ph.D. candidate’s research in thundersnow

Jan 26, 2023

Growing up in the snowy winters of Michigan, Sebastian Harkema, a Ph.D. candidate student in The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) department of Atmospheric & Earth Science, still remembers the first time he heard the roar of thunder du...

water sensor with sunset

UAH builds, installs low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how flash droughts impact agriculture

Dec 15, 2022

To help farmers become more drought-resilient and better characterize drought impacts when seeking federal assistance, the Earth System Science Center at UAH is assembling and installing 50, low-cost soil moisture sensors to examine how quickly soi...

John Christy

Long-term Western precipitation trends are stable, says UAH atmospheric scientist Dr. John Christy

Dec 15, 2022

Over the past 130 years regions that provide the major source for spring and summer runoff have not shown a long-term pattern that indicates a permanent decline in precipitation, according to research by Dr. John Christy, a distinguished professor ...

Sanibel Causewa- Hurricane Ian

Hurricane Ian recovery response bolstered by UAH satellite remote sensing data

Oct 05, 2022

The recovery response to Hurricane Ian in Florida has been informed by the efforts of two University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Earth System Science Center (ESSC) research associates who have been analyzing pre-event and post-event satellite re...

An advisory board for the new high-performance computing hub will make making decision-making a collective experience, says Dr. Vladimir Florinski.

$1.95 million DOE grant funds UAH effort to better understand climate change

Sep 28, 2022

A nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological & Environmental Research will fund efforts by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) team led by the director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) to ...

Aerospace Engineering grad, Neil Laya

UAH announces new Eminent Scholars in Atmospheric and Earth Science and Psychology

Sep 23, 2022

The University of Alabama in Huntsville announced two faculty members have been appointed to Eminent Scholar positions. These appointments became effective Aug. 10, 2022 ...

Earth System Science student Emily Wisinski named Goldwater Scholar

Earth System Science student Emily Wisinski named Goldwater Scholar

Aug 24, 2022

Emily Wisinski, an Honors student in the Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, a part of The University of Alabama System, has been named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar. ...

John Christy

New infrastructure near NWS station likely cause of record July temperature readings, UAH scientist says

Aug 03, 2022

Additions of heat-capturing infrastructure around the National Weather Service (NWS) weather station at Huntsville International Airport are likely the cause for temperature data that NWS says shows the city had the hottest July on record, says Ala...