Coastal cities can be spared some wind destruction from intensifying hurricanes or tropical storm systems if they have functional wetland ecosystems and agricultural croplands in the area, according to new computer modeling.
Tag: University of Alabama in Huntsville
First Parker Solar Probe scientific papers publish in Nature
The first published science from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instruments aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) poses a major challenge to our understanding of the dynamics of the near-sun solar wind.
UAH will be first Alabama university to offer H4D cybersecurity course
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will be the first in the state to offer the Hacking for Defense (H4D) cybersecurity class beginning in spring semester 2020.
UAH modeling the spacecraft for NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion idea
NASA has a research grant with The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to model how a spacecraft might be engineered to work with nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), en route to an eventual test flight.
UAH part of Parker Solar Probe team receiving NASA Silver Achievement Medal
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is part of the entire PSP team that will receive the NASA Silver Achievement Medal on Nov. 12.
Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade
Global Temperature Report: October 2019
App to improve lives of older adults is set for first major user tests
Developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) through a collaboration that began in 2015, the app is called mPACT, for mobile Physical Activity Training.
Discovery of an endangered species in a well-known cave raises questions
How did the Alabama cave shrimp get into two distinct cave systems that don’t share a watershed?