In April, the previous Nasa chief, Dr Michael Griffin, joined the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering.

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Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is one of the most knowledgeable climate scientists in the world.

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"This is the most spectacular burst ever seen at high energy, " said Dr Valerie Connaughton, a scientist from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) instrument team.

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Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and former senior scientist for climate studies at NASA, has also observed that results of the one or two dozen climate modeling groups around the world often reflect a common bias.

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Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, sat down at the conference table just moments before the faculty meeting began.

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One expert, Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, notes that over the last 100 years 35 states experienced record temperatures before 1940, while only 11 have had such temperatures since.

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In the March 10th issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, Richard Lieu and Lloyd Hillman of the University of Alabama, in Huntsville, will describe a new method they have used to look at Planck time.

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