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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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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