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Space Weather

Melissa F. PriebeMay 20, 2022

‘Unique Blend’ of Science and Engineering Leads Alumna to Award-Winning Research

Yeimy Rivera receives the Baldwin Prize for making significant contributions to heliophysics research while she was a doctoral student at U-M Climate & Space.

Melissa F. PriebeMay 18, 2022

Congratulations to our new Climate & Space PhD!

Dr. Wang will continue to work in the department as a post-doctoral research fellow, researching Earth’s magnetosphere.

Melissa F. PriebeApril 26, 2022

MAVEN: U-M Alumna Takes the Lead on NASA Planetary Science Mission

NASA welcomes a new principal investigator to the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission, as U-M Climate and Space Alumna Dr. Shannon Curry takes the lead.

Melissa F. PriebeApril 13, 2022

From Earth to Mars: Students Present Climate and Space Research at MGU

Convening on campus for the first time in two years, the Michigan Geophysical Union Symposium brought student researchers together to share their work.

Melissa F. PriebeApril 4, 2022

Solar Forecasting Team Wins First in American-Made Challenge

Prof. Xianglei Huang and Dr. Xiuhong Chen won first in a competition designed to better enable solar industry stakeholders with state-of-the-art solar forecasting.

Melissa F. PriebeMarch 30, 2022

Climate & Space Headlines

Our researchers, leaders and educators are making headlines with their innovative work.

Melissa F. PriebeMarch 29, 2022

Dr. Pulkkinen Named to George R. Carignan Collegiate Professorship

Dr. Tuija I. Pulkkinen has been named the George R. Carignan Collegiate Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering.

ejolsenDecember 14, 2021

Parker Solar Probe data bolsters theories in long-running solar riddle

University of Michigan researchers were able to accurately predict when and where the probe would cross an important barrier in the sun’s atmosphere.

ejolsenApril 29, 2020

Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20-year-old theory

Magnetic flux findings suggest “profound consequences for basic solar processes.”

ejolsenApril 2, 2020

Lockdown for space agencies put research projects in limbo

University of Michigan researchers’ work on NASA and European Space Agency projects that have been altered by COVID-19.

ejolsenMarch 30, 2020

‘Largest radio telescope in space’ to improve solar storm warnings

NASA has selected University of Michigan’s $62M Explorer cubesat mission.

ejolsenMarch 6, 2020

Launching Solar Orbiter

For more than a decade, a U-M team helped develop the scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. Join them on launch night.

ejolsenJanuary 28, 2020

Solar Orbiter mission to track the sun’s active regions, improve space weather prediction

Latest ESA launch will be the first mission to get hi-res images of the sun’s poles

ejolsenDecember 4, 2019

Universities’ crucial role in our spacefaring future

To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies and break our interdisciplinary boundaries.

ejolsenDecember 4, 2019

Parker Solar Probe: ‘We’re missing something fundamental about the sun’

First data holds clues to a decades-old mystery, and major implications for space weather prediction

ejolsenJune 4, 2019

Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe

Probe will go where no spacecraft has gone and measure a process never directly observed before.

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