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UAH professors Dr. Shannon Mathis and Dr. Gordon MacGregor partnered on a study to investigate the effects of hot yoga on bone mineral density.

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Warmest October in satellite temperature record

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Ph.D. student Garima Bhatia and assistant professor Dr. Bryan Mesmer, both in UAH’s Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, are helping ensure the success of a joint NASA-Brazil mission by creating a digital twin of the CubeSat that will launch in 2020.

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As so often happens in science, UAH doctoral student Aaron Kaulfus was looking for something else when he realized his forest fire smoke research might be significant.

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Ms. Rachel Hamburg, a master’s student in UAH’s Department of Space Science and Dr. Péter Veres, a postdoctoral fellow at UAH’s CSPAR, both serve as burst advocates for the GBM Team. As a result, they were two of the first to know of the near-simultaneous detection of gamma rays and gravitational waves from a distant pair of merging neutron stars.

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Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade

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A partnership comprising nine universities in Alabama, including The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) as the lead institution, has been awarded a $20 million, five-year grant by the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).

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Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade

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Alex McVey, a senior majoring in Earth system science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (AUH), served as the project lead this summer for NASA DEVELOP’s Rwanda ecological forecasting project.

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UAH Earth system science master's student Kelsey Herndon uses Google Earth Engine to map surface water in the Tahoua region in Niger, Africa.

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July 2017 Global Temperature Report

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UAH's Department of Atmospheric Science has been named a Center of Academic Excellence in geospatial sciences by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Scientists are seeking to discover why some trees struck by lightning explode or ignite or are otherwise instantly killed, while others - especially in the tropics - seem less effected by lightning strikes and live for a while.

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Global Temperature Report: June 2017

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Global Temperature Report: May 2017

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A new suite of phone apps developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) uses Android smart phones to monitor the physical mobility and stability of older people.

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Global Temperature Report: April 2017

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Critical systems for NASA’s Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) Super Pressure Balloon have been supplied and calibrated by The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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Global Temperature Report: March 2017

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Global Temperature Report: February 2017

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In the mid 1990s, when NASA built two identical Lightning Imaging Sensors (just in case), Dr. Hugh Christian planned all along to send the flight spare into space. He just didn't expect it to take almost 20 years for that to happen.

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Other than shooting it down, how can you stop an enemy drone from entering a protected zone? The question was put to a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) senior design class by Northrop Grumman Corp., pawning a cross-campus collaboration. The answer sounds right out of WWE professional wrestling – a cyber takedown zone.

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Research by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will help scientists can better understand how our cells work. The research is part of a four-year, $31.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project.

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Global Temperature Report: January 2017

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Next-generation astrophysics research using the moon as home base and The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) as its world-class data center are the goals of a multiyear, $237 million NASA satellite mission proposed by a UAH astrophysicist’s collaborative group.

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A new laboratory dedicated to predictive failure testing of electrical insulators used by utilities, electrical component manufacturers, aerospace firms and NASA is now open in the Engineering Building at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

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Dr. Tyson Littenberg, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and an adjunct professor in the Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is among a team of researchers who have launched "Gravity Spy," a crowdsourcing platform that tasks volunteer citizen scientists with sifting through LIGO data and identifying “families” of glitches that can be sorted by machine-learning algorithms.

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Global Temperature Report: December 2016

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The Fast Neutron Spectrometer (FNS) is now aboard the International Space Station. Neutrons contribute to crew radiation exposure and must be measured to assess exposure levels. The FNS uses a new instrument design that can significantly improve reliability.

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Dr. Hugh Christian is getting ready to watch 36 years of work rocket into space. Once successfully launched on Nov. 19 aboard the GOES-R satellite on an Atlas V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., the NASA/NOAA Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) promises to make better “nowcasting” of dangerous weather possible.

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A new, green process developed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor to make carbon fiber that forms ablative rocket nozzles and heat shields could be of interest to NASA, which has a dwindling stockpile of cellulose rayon fiber that dates back to the late 1990s.

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Global Temperature Report: October 2016

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Close cooperation among the NASA and university scientists working in Cramer Hall at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) creates a unique intellectual alloy from the everyday blending of NASA personnel, UAH faculty and staff, and the university’s students.

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University of Alabama in Huntsville scientists study whether a sudden slowing of wind after it accelerates over Sand Mountain in the northeastern corner of Alabama might help explain why tornadoes are more apt to form there.

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The economic viability of an energy system that saves money for utilities and consumers by reducing demand peaks has been demonstrated by a prototype energy lab at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), its creator says.

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A new laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is setting out to solve some of the fundamental mysteries about one of the common compounds floating in the atmosphere and what effects (if any) that compound has on climate change.

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Global Temperature Report: September 2016

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Global Temperature Report: August 2016

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Global Temperature Report: July 2016

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A new $2 million wind tunnel system at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is ready to undertake supersonic flow research with Mach numbers up to 3.

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A pair of University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers aim to explore fundamental properties of infrasonic optical sensors that could make them more sensitive and accurate over long distances.

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Protecting NASA’s balloon-born X-ray telescopes from stray X-rays that can spoil their view is the focus of a NASA-funded project by the Space Hardware Club (SHC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

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Global Temperature Report: June 2016

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An experimental tool to give farmers and other stakeholders an improved estimate of how much water is available in a specific watershed is scheduled to go on line this summer.

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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 suspects are no longer in custody. It's possible the increased presence of salt in the atmosphere plays a role.

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How much impact do genes have on behavioral changes? Dr. Luciano Matzkin of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) want to better understand the genetic underpinnings of ecologically relevant behaviors.

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Global Temperature Report: May 2016

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A University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor and astrophysicist has detected the first high-energy astrophysical source from the moon.

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Dr. Phillip Bitzer of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) wants to learn more about long-stroke lightning that makes things sizzle.

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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected Dr. Gary P. Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the chair of UAH’s Department of Space Science.