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UA Solution for Deadly Shrimp Disease to Become Available Worldwide

By Guest PostJanuary 15, 2014Sciencebiosecurity, ceo, China, commercial shrimp farms, deadly shrimp disease, disease causing bacteria, doug hockstad, genereach, grace chang, linda nunan, livestock, marine bacterium, polymerase chain reaction, rapid, tech launch arizona, Thailand, ua solution, vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vietnam

UA researchers have developed a rapid screening test to detect disease-causing bacteria in commercial shrimp farms.

A bacterial disease called early mortality syndrome is killing off the stocks of the world’s three largest shrimp producers: Thailand, China and Vietnam. In some places, production is down by nearly 50 percent from last year. But there is hope. Don Lightner in the School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has a solution for detecting the bacteria in the stocks, allowing infected populations to be separated from healthy ones. (more…)

Scientists on a Mission: Detailed Study of U.S. Southeast Tornadoes

By Guest PostJuly 12, 2011Environmentalabama, april storm, atlanta, brad smull, cullman storm, dual polarimetric doppler radar, fingerprint of tornado, kevin knupp, memphis, national science foundation, national weather service, nexrad doppler radar system, nsf, nws, psychology and sociology of storm warnings, radar data, rapid, rapid response research, tallahassee, tim coleman, topography, tornado outbreaks, tornadoes, uah, university of alabama in huntsville

*Focus on deadly April 27, 2011, outbreak in Alabama and surrounding states*

It was one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.

Now scientists are organizing a research program to better understand the tornadoes that blew through Alabama and other southeastern states on April 27, 2011.

Scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are analyzing radar data from that day, then merging the information with detailed storm surveys and other data. They hope to learn more about how the storms formed, what made the storms so powerful and what might be done to make tornado warnings more effective. (more…)

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UA Solution for Deadly Shrimp Disease to Become Available Worldwide

Scientists on a Mission: Detailed Study of U.S. Southeast Tornadoes