Category: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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Changing the way we view the Earth
NAE profile: Christopher Ruf, climate and space sciences and engineering.
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This satellite constellation transformed earth science by creatively tuning in to GPS signals
Governments and companies have launched similar constellations to use the method, called GNSS-R, to monitor and forecast wildfires, flooding and more.
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Air quality: rainfall history matters as much as where the air came from
A 19-year ‘goldmine’ of cloud and rainwater samples collected from a New Hampshire mountain provides fresh insights about air pollution.
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Providing the Artemis mission with solar radiation forecasts
Machine-learning and physics-based models developed at U-M will warn NASA when solar particle radiation could become hazardous up to 24 hours in advance.
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Two U-M engineering professors elected into National Academy of Engineering
University of Michigan Engineering now includes 34 NAE members among its active and emeritus faculty.
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Cars and planes could avoid hazardous ice and freezing rain with new sensors
Drivers can lose control when they hit invisible black ice, and freezing rain can lead to plane crashes. This pair of sensors could help avert disaster.
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Zurbuchen, formerly of U-M, NASA, honored by Center for Entrepreneurship
Honors recognize a career spent combining innovations and entrepreneurship.
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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.