DAILY PLANET
Congratulations to Climate and Space 2019 Graduates!
The Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering would like to congratulate the students who graduated this May, and wish them the best of luck on their future endeavors. Read More...
Solar storm congressional testimony: ‘The risk is real’
This past February, Associate Prof. Justin Kasper testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and discussed how best to protect the power grid from space weather. Read more...
Great Lakes ice cover forecasts: A new approach enables local predictions
Highly-localized and accurate Great Lakes ice cover forecasts have been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Michigan and their predictive modeling tool can be adapted for any geographic region. Read more...
Climate & Space alumnus wins prestigious postdoctoral fellowship
limate & Space is very pleased to announce that department alumnus Dr. David Wright has won a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR). Read more...
2019 Climate & Space MGU Student Research Symposium Award Winners
The 16th annual Michigan Geophysical Union (MGU) Symposium was held on April 17 at the Michigan League. Read more...
Prof. Moldwin named Fulbright Arctic Chair 2019-2020
The Climate & Space department is very pleased to announce that Prof. Mark Moldwin has been selected by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board as the Fulbright Arctic Chair for 2019-2020. Read more...
Prof. Margaret Kivelson receives the Gold Medal in Geophysics from Royal Astronomical Society
Prof. Margaret G. Kivelson has been awarded the Gold Medal in Geophysics by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in understanding planetary magnetospheres and their connections to the planets they surround. Read more...
CLaSP CSEM team Receives Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award
Twelve Climate & Space researchers who work in the Center for Space Environment Modeling (CSEM) have received the 2019 Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award from the College of Engineering. Read more...
Climate & Space students and faculty receive Leaders and Honors awards
Three Climate & Space students and a faculty member all received awards at the annual Leaders and Honors Brunch this past March. Read more...
Asst. Prof. Eric Kort discusses rising methane levels in new Wired article. Read more...
Climate & Space faculty are editors of new series of volumes on atmospheric chemistry. Read more...
Climate & Space Ph.D students interviewed for AGU Narratives Project. Read more...
Prof. Sushil Atreya comments on Mars methane emissions for New York Times. Read more...
Prof. Aaron Ridley comments on new aurorae research in Scientific American. Read more...
Prof. Jeremy Bassis comments on Antarctic ice research papers published in Nature. Read more...
CLaSP MEng student Noah Furbush was co-author on UM-Ford study on the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars. Read more...
Asst. Prof. Eric Kort co-author on new methane paper in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. Read more...