Category: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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Launching the world’s largest space telescope
Robby Swoish (BS AERO ’06, MS CLaSP ’07) helped deploy the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Between rain and snow, machine learning finds 9 precipitation types
Leveraging 1.5M minutes of precipitation data and a nonlinear method to handle complex relationships between variables, the team created a new classification system
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We need a solar sail probe to detect space tornadoes
A spacecraft that sails on light could provide a new vantage point on solar eruptions that can disrupt modern electrical and navigation systems.
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Flying Into hurricanes to save lives
Gus Alaka (BSE CLaSP ‘08) chases storms with NOAA.
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Satellites reveal tropical wetland flooding did not cause methane surge
Human activity or other wetland factors like temperature or soil chemistry could be at play.
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US high schoolers monitor solar storms with an accessible antenna kit
An easy-to-install antenna allows high school students to collect data for NASA, helping improve knowledge of space weather.
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Tornado Paths web platform tracks twisters across US
As climate change alters how often tornadoes occur in different parts of the U.S., a new online tool enables the public to see where they have recently struck.
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Fire-monitoring satellite aims to transform wildfire detection and response
Remote-sensing technology originally designed for hurricane forecasting at the University of Michigan inspires tools to help fight wildfires from space.
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AI symposium: Michigan Engineering speakers share how they use AI in research
In addition to making predictions and scientific discoveries, engineers at the MIDAS symposium discussed improving AI’s interpretability and preventing misuse.
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Leinweber Innovation Lab becomes design hub for moon garden equipment
The lab’s four open studio spaces were the perfect fit for the Bioastronautics and Life Support Systems student team to help future moon missions.
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A new look at Voyager 2 data explains one of Uranus’s long-standing mysteries
The spacecraft saw Uranus’s magnetic field at a weird time, so our picture of the planet and its moons actually represents an edge case rather than the norm.
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Could one of Jupiter’s moons support alien life? U-M scientists are on the case
U-M researchers helped find the first evidence for an ocean on the icy moon Europa. Now, with NASA’s return mission, they aim to learn if it’s habitable.