Category: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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Tracking undetectable space junk
Colliding pieces of space debris emit electric signals that could help track small debris littering Earth’s orbit, potentially saving satellites and spacecraft.
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NASA advances U-M’s Mission Concept Study to photograph entire auroras from space
Two satellites could join NASA’s fleet studying the Sun and its impacts on Earth’s magnetic field.
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$9.7M for tools to improve forecasts of harmful space weather
Better forecasting could protect astronauts and instruments from solar eruptions that release damaging, high-energy particles.
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Megastorms leave marks on Saturn’s atmosphere for hundreds of years
Massive storms have appeared as “Great White Spots” on Saturn every 20 to 30 years since 1876. The impacts of those older storms have lasted in Saturn’s atmosphere for centuries.
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Gulf offshore oil and gas production has double the climate impact as inventories report
High methane emissions from shallow water platforms underlie the problem.
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Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Microplastic pollution can be spotted from space because its traveling companion alters the roughness of the ocean’s surface.
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Senior hires stand out in an impressive year for faculty hiring
The cohort of 36 new tenured and tenure-track faculty includes 11 faculty hired at the rank of professor or associate professor.
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Flaring allows more methane into the atmosphere than we thought
The upside is that simple fixes will have a big impact
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When climate change hits home
How an organization led by U-M is helping small-town America plan for a warming world.
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts August 1-5
Highlights include Science and Insider.
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts July 18-22
Highlights include The New York Times and National Geographic.
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Studying Earth’s defenses against solar storms
NASA undertakes a comprehensive look at a critical atmospheric buffer between us and the sun, powered in part by University of Michigan researchers and alumni.