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Archived Spring 2018 Edition

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From Department Chair Professor James Slavin: “I am pleased to share that Professor Chris Ruf has been confirmed by the University of Michigan Regents as the Frederick Bartman Collegiate Professor of Climate and Space Science.”

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Climate & Space is very pleased to announce that Professor Sushil Atreya has been named a Fellow of the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), "...“For outstanding contributions to planetary atmospheres research and planetary missions to understand the origin and evolution of planets in our solar system and in extrasolar systems.” Read more...

CLaSP alumna Lois K. Sarno-Smith received Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science

Climate & Space alumna, Dr. Lois K. Sarno-Smith received the 2017 Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science. The award was preseted to Dr. Sarno-Smith during a ceremony and lecture at the Climate & Space department on Friday, March 16, 2018 in the Space Research Building. Read more...

Dr. Kuranz authors new article on supernovae instability for Nature Communications journal

In the piece, Climate & Space researcher Dr. Carolyn Kuranz discusses the effects of high-energy fluxes on the development of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in young supernovae remnants. The article, "How high energy fluxes may affect Rayleigh–Taylor instability growth in young supernova remnants", was co-authored with Hye-Sook Park of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and CLaSP Professor R. Paul Drake. Read more...

CLaSP alumnus Paul Gross named Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) named Climate and Space alumnus Paul Gross an AMS Fellow at its annual meeting in Austin, Texas this year. He now becomes one of only four meteorologist in the world ever to be named AMS Fellow, AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, and AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist. Read more...

CLaSP/Los Alamos team wins R&D 100 Award for space weather prediction platform Read more...

CLaSP Students Part of U-M Delegation to United Nations Climate Conference Read more...

Professor Poulsen elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Read more...

MGU Student Research Symposium Award Winners 2018 Read more...