NWS: Today’s High Near 53; Tonight’s Low Around 27
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 53 with mostly sunny skies and tonight’s low around 27. Courtesy/NWS Read More
Daily Postcard: Moon And Venus Spotted Over White Rock
Daily Postcard: View of the moon and Venus at about 7:21 p.m. Thursday from White Rock. In reality, when it seems as though Venus and the moon come into contact Feb. 27, Venus was actually 84 million miles away from Earth, while the moon was 249,892 miles away. The meeting between the two planets is expected March 28 when the crescent moon creeps back toward Venus for a very similar event. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
SFNF Recruiting Archaeology Site Stewards
SFNF News:
SANTA FE — The Santa Fe National Forest is looking for site stewards to protect its wealth of archaeological sites rich with sherds, lithics and adobe pueblo remains.
The selected stewards will receive comprehensive training in a full-day session Saturday, March 21.
Because applicants must complete an application, which is then reviewed for eligibility, the Program must receive applications as early as possible.
The training covers the topics of safety, proper preparation, national forest regulations, historic preservation acts, sensitivity to the cultures, both prehistoric Read More
Weekly Fishing Report Feb. 27
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports & Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The weather turned sharply colder Monday night with a strong wind contributing to the chill.
The temperatures and wind chills dropped to below zero in Northeastern New Mexico. Walking from my truck to the gym for a basketball game was the coldest I’ve felt all winter long.
That said, the pattern lately is for temperatures to warm up quickly and be back in the 50’s in a couple of days. The weekend looks nice.
The lakes that had ice fishing last week are still holding up well. The good news is that Sunday (March 1) several lakes in Northeastern Read More
AGU: Wind Turbines Perturb Leeward Evening Temperatures
Wind turbines at farm in Texas. Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons
AGU News:
Single wind turbines and large wind farms modify local scales of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) turbulence through different mechanisms dependent on location within the wind farm.
These changes in turbulence scales would most likely have notable influence on surface fluxes and microclimate during the afternoon and early evening stability transition. Profiles of Richardson number, shear and buoyancy from 1‐Hz tall‐tower measurements in and near a wind farm in an agricultural landscape were used to quantify departures Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 46; Tonight’s Low Around 27
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 46 with sunny skies and tonight’s low around 27. Courtesy/NWS
Daily Postcard: Clouds Form Mosaic
Daily Postcard: Clouds form a mosaic in the sky Sunday morning as seen from N.M. 4. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com Read More
NWF Commends Udall And Grassley Oil &Gas Bill
NWF News:
Restoring Fiscal Responsibility to Oil and Gas Leasing on Our Public Lands
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Wildlife Federation commends Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) for introducing a bill to modernize oil and gas fiscal policies on America’s public lands.
The “Fair Returns for Public Lands Act” is a common-sense approach to ensure the oil and gas industry pays its fair share.
“For decades, oil and gas companies have enjoyed an unfair advantage, paying far below market value to lease and develop energy on our public lands. This short changes American taxpayers Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 37; Tonight’s Low Around 23
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 37 with sunny skies and tonight’s low around 23. Courtesy/NWS Read More
Daily Postcard: Deer Forage For Food On Corona
Daily Postcard: A pair of deer forage for supper early Monday evening at a residence on Corona in Quemazon. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
On The Job In Los Alamos: Frazer Lockhart At N3B
On the job in Los Alamos is Frazer Lockhart, program manager for Regulatory & Stakeholder Interface at N3B, in his office Thursday at 1200 Trinity Dr. Frazer met with United Way of Northern New Mexico Board Vice President Carol A. Clark to hear about the United Way Cornerstone Partner Program opportunity available to local businesses. To learn more about the Cornerstone Partner Program, click here or call UWNNM Executive Director Cindy Padilla at 505.663.3891. To learn more about N3B, click here. #worklosalamos #wherediscoveriesaremade. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
Amateur Naturalist: Finding History In A Forest – Artistry Of Sheepherders
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
We have been reviewing how aspen trees can provide cultural history as well as be a part of plant ecology.
The sheepherders of northern New Mexico lived in small, poor rural communities in the early 20th century. Their summers involved isolation in mountain meadows with their sheep.
This suggests that they were illiterate and had little awareness of the larger world.
However cursive letter carvings show that sheepherders could write at more than a basic level. Letters made with curves are far more demanding in technical and artistic skill compared with straight-lined Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 34; Tonight’s Low Around 13
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 34 with partly sunny skies and tonight’s low around 13. Courtesy/NWS Read More
Daily Postcard: Clouds Blanket Sky Over Los Alamos
Daily Postcard: Layers of clouds spotted from N.M. 502 Sunday as the sun slowly begins to make an appearance. Photo by Jenn Bartram/ladailypost.com Read More
NHCC 20th Anniversary Celebration Begins Feb. 29
Young boy reads at NHCC Children’s Book Fair. Courtesy/NHCC
Fresco inside the NHCC Torreón, Mundos de Mestizaje. Courtesy/NHCC
NHCC News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Make Leap Day 2020 memorable. Celebrate the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) 20th anniversary year, at the first of many events planned during this yearlong commemoration of the founding of NHCC.
This anniversary year provides the opportunity for 20/20 vision, to look back at what has been accomplished at NHCC and set sights on the future.
Over the past two decades the NHCC has shared thousands of stories showcasing art, history, Read More
NWS: Today’s High Near 45; Tonight’s Low Around 18
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 45 with sunny skies, breezy conditions with gusts as high as 35 mph and tonight’s low around 18. Courtesy/NWS
Read MoreDaily Postcard: Rain Droplets Cling To Tree Needles
Daily Postcard: Rain droplets spotted clinging to tree needles Sunday morning in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Releases New Film Highlighting Importance Of Big Game Migration In NM
TRCP News:
MISSOULA, Mont. —The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) has released a film exploring the importance of planning for migration corridor conservation in New Mexico and, more generally, across the West.
The film, “Migration Corridors: Connecting the Wildlife and People of New Mexico”, features a New Mexican hunter and a hunting guide, officials from the U.S. Forest Service and New Mexico Game & Fish, and TRCP staff.
The film showcases the insights offered by the most recent research into big game migration corridors, the importance of these routes to wildlife, Read More
HSNW: How To Deflect An Asteroid
MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid, taking into account an asteroid’s mass and momentum, its proximity to a gravitational keyhole, and the amount of warning time that scientists have of an impending collision. Photo collage by Christine Daniloff/MIT
HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS WIRE:
MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid.
Their decision method takes into account an asteroid’s mass and momentum,
NWS: Today’s High Near 41; Tonight’s Low Around 29
The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 41 with a 70 percent chance of rain and snow showers likely, becoming all snow after 8 a.m. and tonight’s low around 29. Courtesy/NWS Read More
