AGU: Stored Heat Released From Ocean Largely Responsible For Recent Streak Of Record Hot Years
Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures, measured here in November 2015, surged during the 2014-2015 El Niño. New research finds this El Niño released excess heat stored in the Pacific Ocean since the 1990s. Courtesy/NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory.Alaska Lifts Tsunami Warning Following 7.9 Earthquake
Courtesy/US National Tsunami Warning CenterExperts To Preview Launch Of NOAA’s GOES-S Satellite
Technicians in the clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla. closely inspect and continue working to prepare NOAA’s GOES-S for its March 1 launch. Credit/NOAALos Alamos County Environmental Services Division Offers Free Cardboard Recycling Services To Busineses
Businesses are encouraged to utilize these ‘cardboard only’ bins offered free of charge to commercial customers. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
There are numerous benefits a business can enjoy from tossing corrugated cardboard into the recycling bin rather than in the trash. Besides helping the environment, it can help businesses save money.
Starting in September 2017, the Los Alamos County Environmental Services Division (ESD) has been offering cardboard recycling services free of charge Read More
Tales Of Our Times: Paths To ‘Sustainable’ Are Craggy
Tales of Our TimesBy JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
Being sustainable, whatever it means, is infinitely easier than becoming sustainable. The path, not the destination, is the snarl that needs more of the bright light. I offer no swift map, but I can point out the starting line. I bring some craggy questions to explore.
On The Job In Los Alamos: At Bandelier
On the job are staff at Bandelier all happy to be back and welcoming visitors after the government shut down. Courtesy/NPS Read More
New EM Contractor Addresses NNMCAB
Frazer Lockhart, regulatory and stakeholder interface manager for N3B chats with former San Ildefonso Pueblo governor James Mountain at the Northern New Mexico Citizens Advisory Board meeting Wednesday in Espanola. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
NNMCAB representative for Los Alamos Kristen Henderson and N3B environmental remediation manager Joe Legare at Wednesday’s meeting in Espanola. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post
Northern New Mexico Citizens Advisory Board Read More
Bandelier Celebrates ‘Year Of The Bird’
Bandelier has chosen a local bird to celebrate each month in 2018, the Year of the Bird, and the bird for January is the raven. Courtesy/NPSEnvironment Department Confirms Lifting Of ‘Boil Water Advisory’ For Cochiti Elementary School
NMED News:LANS Fee Impacted By Plutonium Air Shipments
By MAIRE O’NEILLLos Alamos National Security, LLC earned 89 percent of the total available fee for FY2017, or $44.6 million out of a possible $50.3 million, a National Nuclear Safety Administration spokesman said Wednesday.
The LANL contractor is graded annually for its performance. According to the Performance Evaluation Report for 2017, LANS had the potential to earn about $50.3 million, which comprises $8.9 million in at-risk fee, $35.4 million in fixed fee and $6 million for Strategic Partnerships with other agencies, which is also a fixed Read More
Special Blue Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Show Sunday
Lunar eclipse. Photo by Rick WallaceCuba Ranger District Chaparral Piles Burn Today
SFNF News:Udall, Heinrich Urge Secretary Zinke To Keep Public Lands In Public Hands
U.S. SENATE News:Brown Bag Performance: Juanita Madland Feb. 7
Pianist Juanita Madland will host the upcoming Brown Bag show at noon Feb. 7 in Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo
LAAC News:
The February Brown Bag Performance will feature Juanita Madland, performing classical piano compositions at noon Feb. 7 in Fuller Lodge.
She will present a program of music by composers Chopin, Granados, Brahms, Schumann, and Schubert. The program will conclude with a special rendition of a composition by Juanita and David Madland. Mary Helen Klare, violinist and educator, will join Madlandin in a reading of her poem about Glenn Gould.
Los Alamos Arts Council has presented
Daily Postcard: Not Owl But Red Tail Hawk Spotted On North Mesa
Daily Postcard: First thought to be an owl … this red tail hawk is spotted perched high in a tree Tuesday on North Mesa. Photo by PT Cunningham Read More
Sipapu Ski Resort Receives 14 Inches Of Snow
Butterfly trail. Courtesy John Paul Bradley/Sipapu Ski ResortPEEC: See Fractals And Sea Monsters Jan. 26-27
PEEC’s updated fractal show is 7 p.m. Friday at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC Pajarito Environmental Education Center’s updated fractal show is back for one evening: at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26. This show incorporates math, science, art and nature in a full-dome planetarium show featuring original music.
Daily Postcard: Deer Spotted On Walnut Street
Daily Postcard: Deer spotted on Walnut Street. Photo by Robert Beberniss
Young deer on Walnut Street. Photo by Robert Beberniss Read More
UCOR Earns 87 Percent Of Fee At Oak Ridge
URS | CH2M Oak Ridge workers demolish the K-802 Pumphouse at East Tennessee Technology Park during the April-September 2017 fee evaluation period. Courtesy/DOE
DOE News:
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) cleanup contractor URS | CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) earned almost $3.3 million for its performance from April through September 2017, nearly 87 percent of the total award fee available for the evaluation period.
OREM recently issued its latest six-month fee determination scorecard for UCOR. EM releases information relating to contractor fee Read More
Laural Hardin Brings Petree Garden Center To Los Alamos
Certified Arborist Laural Hardin is bringing Petree Garden Center to Los Alamos in early April. Courtesy photo
Just to clarify, Laural Hardin of Los Alamos has partnered with Mike Petree of Taos to bring Petree Garden Center to Los Alamos. The company is leasing space in the former De Colores building at 2470 East Road, which Craig and Rachel Wehner recently purchased and from where they are operating their landscaping business.
“While Petree Gardens and Los Alamos Landscaping & More are not partners, we share the same Read More
