John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

Space Studies Master’s student, Art Ortiz, will defend his thesis as follows.  Please mark your calendar and show your support by attending. When: Wednesday, March 11th at 3:00 p.m. (Central time) Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Radiation Shielding Approaches for Planetary Surface Exploration:  A Mars Case Study for UND Concepts About the Topic:  Surface stays on […]

Space Studies master’s student, Joseph Jessup, will give his thesis proposal presentation as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend. When:  Wednesday, February 25th at 8:30 a.m. Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: Ceres – Hybrid Epidermal Enhancement (HEE) Planetary Environmental Suit Study About the topic: The design philosophy behind the HEE space […]

Calling all snowflakes! We want you to be a star. All you have to do is land in Mark Askelson’s very cool snowflake house. Lined with sensors that’ll get a good look at you, the box helps Askelson and his students get a closer handle on your marvelous six-pointed, infinitely variable molecular structure. This is […]

The Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems is one of three such college-based program nationwide to receive an image processing package from MotionDSP. Ben Solhjem, center at laptop, manager of field engineering for MotionDSP, leads a UND aerospace team through training on its new software The in-kind gift is part of a collaborative research effort to discover […]

Dr. Xiquan Dong and Dr. Baike Xi from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences have received a Group Achievement Award from NASA. The award was to the CERES Clouds Team “For sustained excellence and innovation in developing and validating the Cloud Retrieval Systems for CERES Editions 2 and 4 Climate Data Records.” CERES (Clouds and the […]

Atmospheric Sciences – “Midlatitude Deep Convective Transport to the Upper-Troposphere and Lower-Stratosphere” – $290,966

Dr. Gretchen Mullendore, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has received a grant award in the amount of $290,966 from the National Science Foundation entitled “Midlatitude Deep Convective Transport to the Upper-Troposphere and Lower-Stratosphere.” Deep convection, such as the severe thunderstorms observed throughout the central United States in the summer months, is an efficient vertical transporter […]

Dr. Xiquan Dong and Dr. Baike Xi have received a Group Achievement Award from NASA. The award was to the CERES Clouds Team “For sustained excellence and innovation in developing and validating the Cloud Retrieval Systems for CERES Editions 2 and 4 Climate Data Records.” CERES (Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System) is a […]

The submission period for the ND NASA EPSCoR CAN announcement made 1/6/15 has now closed.  Evaluation of all proposals is complete and one has been selected for submission to NASA.  The chosen proposal for full submission to NASA by North Dakota is titled, “Development of a Planetary Multi-Purpose Analog Research Station in North Dakota.”  The […]

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences recently took delivery of a Baron Omni weather graphics system along with the VIPIR analysis and display program for Doppler weather radar. UND students will use this state of the art system to produce the morning weather show UND Weather Update and also the weekly news program Studio One. This […]