WIPP: Safe Havens Increases Underground Safety
Safe havens provide life-saving shelter for underground workers in the event of an emergency. Courtesy photoPublic Invited To Trails Webinar Thursday
COMMUNITY News:
All interested community members are invited to “The Role of Trails in Healthy Community Design” – a live webinar from American Trails 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3 at the Los Alamos Nature Center, 2600 Canyon Road.
The webinar will begin promptly at 11 a.m. and attendance is free.
Local To Global: How Los Alamos County’s Good Government Helps Mitigate Climate Disruption
By JODY BENSONThe United Nations initiated their Climate Talks in Paris Monday despite the Daesh/ISIS attack Nov. 13.
The refusal to postpone the international meeting accentuates the fact that the world thinks the climate issue is at least as important (or even perhaps what exacerbates) terrorism. Most leaders recognize climate as the most critical concern humans will confront into the next century. Actually, these leaders recognize that this is the most critical issue for humans right now.
We in Los Alamos know first hand about how climate change has disrupted Read More
Udall Statement On New Mexico Unit Agreement
U.S. Sen. Tom UdallSFI Seminar: ‘Garden – As Symbolic Link Between City And Nature’ 3:30 p.m. Today
Curtis Carter, Marquette UniversitySmart Grid Demonstration Project Update Dec. 2
SIERRA CLUB News:Udall, Heinrich Welcome Passage Of New Law To Foster Innovation, Increase Competitiveness Of U.S. Space Industry
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich praised passage of the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act to modernize commercial space regulations and encourage competitiveness in the industry.
Udall and Heinrich are longtime champions of modernizing U.S. policies governing commercial spaceflight. The bill, which President Obama signed last week, provides an essential legal framework that will enable New Mexico’s commercial spaceflight industry to grow in the years ahead.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
The new law will Read More
Prescribed Burns On Santa Fe National’s Forest Jemez And Cuba Ranger Districts During December
SFNF News:-
486 acres in Joaquin Canyon eight miles
Learn About Longest-Running Citizen Science Project In The World 7 p.m. Tuesday At Nature Center
Mouser Williams. Photo by Minesh Bacrania
PEEC News:
Local wildlife photographer, birder and occasional electrical engineer Mouser Williams will give a presentation at the Los Alamos Nature Center at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1 about the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count program.
The talk will cover the historical origins of the bird count, how it has grown in the last 116 years, and how scientists take advantage of such a rich database of bird population data. The Christmas Bird Count is coming to Los Alamos for the first time since 1953, and Dr. Williams will explain how our Read More
Heinrich Continues Call For Wildfire Budget Fix
U.S. Sen. Martin HeinrichSmall Business Profile: PEEC Gift Shop Celebrates The Natural World
PEEC Executive Director PEEC Katie Watson outside the new Los Alamos Nature Center. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypostIf there is one stand-out quality in Los Alamos, it would be the community’s spectacular scenery and all the flora and fauna that goes with it.
For more than 10 years, the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) has strived to educate, celebrate, preserve and explore all the natural wonders of this community.
Sandra West, marketing manager for PEEC, explained the organization was founded in 2000, “by a group of dedicated Read More
Learn About Los Alamos Smart Grid Project At Sierra Club Meeting Dec. 2
SIERRA CLUB News:
The public is invited to attend the December meeting of the Sierra Club of Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2 in Room 230 of the UNM-Los Alamos Student Center (Bldg. 2). The speaker is Tim Glasco of the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities.
Glasco will discuss the U.S.-Japan Demonstration Smart Grid Project that was undertaken in Los Alamos. Project partners included Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities.
Through the construction Read More
Udall, Heinrich Urge LWCF Reauthorization, Funding Before Year Ends
SENATE News:SCEC Improves Understanding Of Earthquake Hazards With Supercomputers, Achieves Societal Impacts
SCEC News:ARPA-E Awards Tibbar Plasma Technologies Of Los Alamos $3.5M For Transformational Energy Technology
Tibbar Plasma Technologies owner Richard Nebel and colleague Bill Gibson standing next to ‘the machine.’ Courtesy photo
BUSINESS News:
Los Alamos based company, Tibbar Plasma Technologies Inc, announced today that it was awarded $3.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
The funding will be used to develop plasma-based AC-DC electrical transformers for High Voltage DC Electrical Transmission.
“Plasma-based electrical transformers have the potential to reduce the cost of transforming power by a Read More
SDSS J103842.59+484917.7: Where Alice In Wonderland Meets Albert Einstein
This group of galaxies has been nicknamed the ‘Cheshire Cat’ because of its resemblance to a smiling feline. Some of the cat-like features are actually distant galaxies whose light has been stretched and bent by the large amounts of mass contained in foreground galaxies. This is an effect called ‘gravitational lensing,’ predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity that is celebrating its 100th anniversary. X-rays from Chandra show that the two ‘eye’ galaxies and the smaller galaxies associated with them are slamming into one another
Fractal Show At The Planetarium Friday
Fractals. Courtesy/PEECPEEC News:
Enjoy an evening out and journey into the never-ending world of fractals in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.27. This show incorporates math, science, art and nature in a full-dome planetarium show featuring original music.
This spectacular show starts promptly at 7 p.m. and seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased by phone or at the nature center and are only $10 for adults and $8 for children. This fractals show will run on the fourth Friday of each month, and is suitable for audiences ages 4 and up.
For more information about Read More
SFI: ‘Disturbance Ecology Meets Macroecology…’ Nov. 23
Erica Newman, University of California, BerkeleyLos Alamos Technology Gains National Backing
Descartes Labs artificial intelligence can race through mountains of data and read a landscape in seconds. An early emphasis for this technology is in evaluating and predicting agricultural output, like these irrigated fields near Roswell. Courtesy/2015 NASA/LANDSAT
Los Alamos pixels and Los Alamos dots were both riding high this week.
Descartes Labs, Inc., a one-year-old company specializing in satellite imagery recognition and analysis, announced Tuesday that it had raised $5 million in a venture capital round, thanks to a group of investors Read More
