News Archive

ALBANY, N.Y. (Feb. 27, 2020) – Collecting data from atop Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks, atmospheric scientist Sara Lance is focused on the chemistry in the clouds that surround this iconic summit. A prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support her research for the next five years.

ALBANY, N.Y. (Feb. 25, 2020) – Data from the nation’s most advanced and largest early warning weather detection network can now be viewed in the palm of your hand. In partnership with the University’s xCITE (ExTREME Collaboration, Innovation, & TEchnology) laboratory, the New York State Mesonet has released an official mobile application – available for download in Apple and Google Play stores.

Atmospheric scientist Brian Tang has been awarded  $2.145 million from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to help forecasters better understand and predict the rapid intensification of hurricanes.

Tucked into a converted office space at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC), Kara Sulia and Arnoldas Kurbanovas are helping scientists better visualize and communicate their story.

ALBANY, N.Y. (Jan. 23, 2020) – Last June, Gov. Cuomo signed one of the nation’s most aggressive pieces of legislation aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), as it’s known, calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity across New York by 2040. A new whitepaper published by researchers in UAlbany’s Weather-Climate Enterprise takes a deep dive into what is needed to make this ambitious goal happen.

When a group of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory visited campus last semester, Emily Paltz jumped at the opportunity to meet and network with them. She never imagined their conversation would lead to her climbing aboard a NOAA hurricane hunter.

ALBANY, N.Y. (July 9, 2019) – Three UAlbany undergraduate students spent their first days of summer far away from sandy beaches and scorching temperatures – instead conducting experiments around the second-largest ice sheet on the planet. The students were part of a large team of researchers, also including undergraduates from the University of Michigan and Virginia Tech, who recently returned from an 11-day expedition to the Greenland Ice Sheet.

ALBANY, N.Y. (July 2, 2019) – A recently documented long-term drying trend over the Congo Basin could have important implications on the future of the world’s second largest rainforest, according to a study published today in Nature Climate Change.