Huntsville Toyota and Huntsville Utilities go green in $49 million solar project

In a bid to support local, sustainable energy, Huntsville Utilities will be acquire power from someone besides TVA for the first time ever  On Wednesday morning, Huntsville Utilities, Toyota Alabama and Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. (TAI) announced a new project that will harness solar energy to power 70% of Huntsville’s Toyota manufacturing plant. The three […]

Land Trust acquires Drake Mountain property

Land Trust of North Alabama recently acquired a 44-acre property on Drake Mountain in East Huntsville. Lying on the western side of the mountain and being highly visible from both Dug Hill Road and Highway 431, the forested mountainside is a key acquisition to protect the viewshed within the area. The property also includes multiple […]

UAH SWIRLL researchers capture atmospheric data near Rolling Fork tornado

On March 24, nearly 40 miles away from the EF-4 tornado that devastated the town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, a research team from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science and  Earth System Science Center (ESSC) set up a tornado field campaign site outside Greenville, Mississippi, capturing weather data before […]

UAH Researchers use Earth Observations to Identify Damage, Impacts from Earthquakes in Turkey

The country of Turkey is still reeling from a 7.8 and a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and thousands of aftershocks that occurred in February, causing widespread destruction to infrastructure and human life. To aid response and recovery efforts, two researchers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Earth System Science Center (ESSC) are using Earth […]

IBM Announces Partnership with Marshall Space Flight Center to Impact Climate Change

Rocket City has always been at the forefront of the world’s efforts of leaving the earth for outer space, and soon it will soon be at the forefront of saving the earth from impacts of climate change as well.  On Wednesday, IBM Research and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center announced they are starting development on […]

HudsonAlpha and Gener8tor Provide Opportunities for First Cohort of the AgTech Investment Accelerator

The five startup companies chosen for the inaugural AgTech Investment Accelerator gave their final presentations at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s (HudsonAlpha) campus last Saturday. These series of presentations came after a 12 week program that aimed to bolster Alabama’s ability to translate agriculture technology into commercial products.  A crowd of around 120 people gathered to […]

Huntsville Representatives Advise on Innovate Alabama’s Council on Outdoor Recreation

Innovate Alabama recently established the Council on Outdoor Recreation to advise its board of directors on strategies to achieve three primary goals: expanding Alabama’s outdoor recreation industry, enhancing the state’s attractiveness for a skilled workforce, and yielding substantial returns for both rural and urban communities for the enjoyment of current and future Alabamians. The Council […]

UAH’s Earth System Science Center Employees Recover Historic NASA Arctic and Antarctic Flight Data

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Historic records dating back to the 1990s of NASA’s P-3 aircraft flights over the Arctic and Antarctic circles were recently found and digitized by two employees of the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s (UAH) Earth System Science Center (ESSC) in cooperation with NASA Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) program.  Digitizing […]

HudsonAlpha’s growth continues with new Greenhouse and Educational space

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has a new reason to celebrate: on Wednesday morning, the facility celebrated the opening of its new 14,000-square-foot state-of-the-art glass greenhouse and laboratory facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony featuring Governor Kay Ivey and a host of leaders in government and business across the region.  Brasfield and Gorrie served as the […]

HudsonAlpha, University of Georgia CROPS Conference Addresses Plant Sustainability

Hundreds of scientists and agricultural researchers from across the country converged on HudsonAlpha from June 13-16 for a biotechnology conference hosted by the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. HudsonAlpha’s fourth annual CROPS conference marked the return to in-person meetings, with this year’s theme focusing on […]