The Department of Atmospheric Science and the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville:

• Ranked in the top ten by the Chronicle of Higher Education based on faculty research productivity index
  
  
• Consistently ranks nationally in the top 20 in research funding based on NSF metrics
  
  
• Has 75 undergraduate and 40 graduate students
  
  
• Has a faculty that includes three AMS fellows
  
  
• Has graduated students who won back to back U.S. Presidential Early Career Awards (PECASE) in 2009 and 2010
  
  
• Has faculty that won a share of the IPCC Nobel Peace Prize award
  
  
• Lead Authors and Contributors to the Climate Change Science Panel Reports and WMO Ozone Assessment
  
  
• Performs collaborative research with NOAA on lightning, air quality, severe weather and climate.
  
  
• Is collocated with NWS and NASA thereby enabling students to get a unique collaborative experience.
  
  
• Is home of the Mobile severe weather monitoring network that includes state of the art MIPS, MAX, ARMOR, and the NOWCASTR (http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/)
  
  
• Is home of the state of the art RAPCD ozone and aerosol lidar for chemistry and air quality research (http://nsstc.uah.edu/atmchem/), including balloon-launch facility
  
  
• Has international study abroad research programs with Panama and Germany
  
  
• Has graduated students who have won prestigious awards such as the NOAA David Johnson Award
  
  
• Performs on-site collaborative research with NASA’s SPoRT, SERVIR, and other programs at MSFC
  
  
• Faculty and staff have testified many times before state legislatures and U.S. Congress
  
  
• Houses the Office of the State Climatologist
  
  
• Two recipients of the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and AMS Special Awards for scientific research
  
  
• Lead scientists and engineers on the GOES Lightning Mapping instrument
  
  
• Seven NASA graduate student fellowship awards
  
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