Bear Attack Victim Partners With Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard To Change State Wildlife Law
Ultrarunner Karen Williams with Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard stopped by the Los Alamos Daily Post Monday to talk about their mission to protect bears. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Karen Williams with Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard last Thursday during their visit to the La Cueva Fire Department to thank them for rescuing Williams after she was attacked by a bear June 18 while running a marathon in the Valles Caldera. Photo by Robert Borden/Jemez Thunder
Recent bear attack victim Karen Williams stopped by
Pedestrian Bridge Installed At Los Alamos Reservoir
Workers bring in a tall crane to install a pedestrian bridge Wednesday at the Los Alamos Reservoir. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Pedestrian bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
The pedestrian bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Here comes the pedestrian bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Lowering down the bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Lowering the bridge. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.comNature Center: Aparejo Burro Packing July 20
Learn about the Aparejo Packing System July 20 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
Ever wonder what it would be like to meet burros up close? Come to the Los Alamos Nature Center at 6:30 p.m., July 20 to find out.
Thanks to a sponsorship from Del Norte Credit Union, the Aparejo Packing System will demonstrate the old Spanish-style packing system on live burros. Meet the friendly mules face-to-face and learn about their work as cargo-movers along the trails of the Southwest. Staff also will be available to answer any questions. This event is part of PEEC’s Summer Family Evenings. Read More
Sierra Club Statement On Crude Oil And Wastewater Tankers Explosion
SIERRA CLUB News:
NAGEEZI – Monday night, 36 tankers storing crude oil and wastewater exploded and burned.
According to reports, approximately 10 families were evacuated and as of this morning, the fire has yet to be extinguished.
In response, Sierra Club Beyond Dirty Fuels Director Lena Moffitt released the following statement:
“Our thoughts are with the families affected by this disaster, which further highlights the extreme dangers dirty fuels pose not only to our climate and public health, but to our communities. We cannot continue to permit corporate polluters to put their profits Read More
PBS Science Café: Black Holes—Masters Of The Milky Way July 16
July’s PBS Science Café examines the birth, evolution, and death of black holes with Dr. Rick Wallace in the Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium. Courtesy photoHalf A Million People Urge U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Not To Abandon Red Wolves
ESC News:Los Alamos Computational Scientist Wins 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award
LANL’s Ludmil Alexandrov wins 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award.
LANL News:
Ludmil Alexandrov, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group, is the winner of the 2016 Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award. Given biennially by the journal Carcinogenesis: Integrative Cancer Research, published by Oxford University Press, and the European Association for Cancer Research, the award recognizes a recent significant contribution to carcinogenesis research by an investigator under the age of 40.
“Ludmil’s research uses large-scale computational Read More
How Scientifically Accurate Is ‘The Martian’?
Mars. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
Is The Martian movie far fetched? What is the atmosphere like on the surface of Mars? How long can an astronaut survive there?
Astrophysicist Rick Wallace will lead a full-dome planetarium show and discussion of Mars at 7 p.m. Friday, July 15, including the challenges, opportunities and realities of this red planet. This fascinating Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) program is in the Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium at the Los Alamos Nature Center at 2600 Canyon Road.
For more information about this and other PEEC programs, visit www.peecnature.org Read More
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Introduces Bipartisan Bill To Create Tax Credit For Energy Storage
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:
- Legislation establishes incentives for business and home use of energy storage
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, has introduced S. 3159, the Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act, a bipartisan bill cosponsored by U.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Angus King (I-Maine), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), to establish investment Read More
U.S. Suffers $8 Billion In Climate-related Disasters
Elevated tornado activity linked to climate change. Courtesy/commons.wikimdia.org
NATIONAL News:
We are only halfway through 2016 and the United States has already seen eight weather and climate-related disasters* that have each met or exceeded $1 billion in damages.
These eight disasters resulted in the loss of thirty lives, and caused at least $13.1 billion. Since 1980 the United States has sustained 196 weather and climate disasters in which overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The total cost of these 196 events exceeds $1.1 trillion.
We are only halfway through Read More
Will Schmidt Receives Community Youth Award
PEEC Volunteer Coordinator Christa Tyson sits with Will Schmidt the June recipient of the Community Youth Award, presented last Friday. Courtesy photo
Sue Watts, winner of the Spirit of the West earlier this year holding her handcrafted award by Richard Ronquillo for her work at PEEC. Courtesy photoWill Schmidt took home the Community Youth Award for June, from Champions of Youth Ambitions (C’YA).
Schmidt, 15, has been a PEEC volunteer since 2012 volunteering regularly, caring for the educational animals and conversing with visitors, participating
LANL Students Bring Virtual Reality To Nature Center
The community is invited to try out the new Oculus Rift virtual reality machine at 7 p.m., July 19 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
Thanks to Los Alamos National Laboratory students, the technology of the future, virtual reality, is now available at the Los Alamos Nature Center.
The community is invited to grab a pair of headsets, kick back and enter a virtual world brimming with possibilities in which the boundaries of visualization technologies are pushed at 7 p.m., July 19, at the Los Alamos Nature Center.
HTC’s Vive and Oculus’ Rift are two up-and-coming programs that Read More
Hunter College Creates Super Sniffer Mice
Destined to be the bomb detector of the future. Courtesy/commons.wikimedia.org
HSNW News:
Researchers at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, have created super-sniffer mice that have an increased ability to detect a specific odor, according to a study published 7 July in Cell Reports. The mice, which can be tuned to have different levels of sensitivity to any smell by using mouse or human odor receptors, could be used as land-mine detectors or as the basis for novel disease sensors.
The technology, a transgenic approach to engineering the mouse genome, could also Read More
Calling All Teens Interested In Science And Art: Projecting Particles Lab At ScienceFest 2016
Scene from ScienceFest 2015. Courtesy/LACDC
LACDC News:
This year’s Los Alamos ScienceFest will host a one of a kind workshop for high school aged teens.
Artist Agnes Chavez will lead the workshop, which will explore how to create a live projection art performance using an iPad app called Tagtool. Participants will learn about particle physics concepts, and how physics theories are expanding our understanding of who we are and where we come from.
The students will work in teams over the course of a 2-day workshop to storyboard, design and perform their science based projection installations. Read More
PEEC: New Laser Light Shows July 31 – Aug. 7
Craig Martin Guides Hike To Bandelier’s Upper Crossing
View of Upper Frijoles Canyon. Photo by Craig MartinPEEC Family Night With Melissa Mackey July 12
PEEC offers hands-on fun July 12 at the Los Alamos Nature Center’s Family Night. Photo by Sandra West
PEEC News:
Family Night is 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, July 12 at the Los Alamos Nature Center and features a night of games and songs around the campfire with Mesa Public Library’s Melissa Mackey.
The nature center will be open until 8 p.m. for exploring the exhibits.
Family Night is held the second Tuesday of every month at the nature center and thanks to a generous sponsorship from the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos, this program is free to attend.
For more information about this and other programs offered by the Read More
PEEC: Volunteerism And Youth
PEEC volunteer. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC volunteer. Courtesy/PEEC- You’re never too young to change the world. – unknown
Los Alamos is known as “one of the best places to raise children.”As a parent, I can attest to the blessings this area offers. We have amazing schools, easy access to the natural beauty of our surrounding open spaces, and endless programs geared toward educating, enriching and enlivening the youth here. We have many programs that support and uphold families.
A benefit often overlooked, is the opportunity for the Read More
Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice May Accumulate
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft heading toward the dwarf planet Ceres. Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Keeping Pets Safe In Summer Heat
A trio of dogs ride in a boat. Courtesy photo
