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Approval, Request For Permit Modification To Add Drum Assay & Hydraulic Power Supply To TA-54 Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room

LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)  announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • Approval, Request for Class 1 Permit Modification to Add Drum Assay and Hydraulic Power Supply to TA-54, Area G, Pad 11 (Link)

Members of the public with any questions, Read More

New Mexico School Retools Math Education With Support From Los Alamos National Laboratory Experts

Randy Merker, left, and Zachary Leonard (right) of LANL’s Math and Science Academy chat with Blanco Elementary School counselor Mary Head-Powell during a math night for students and their families. Over the course of the year, Merker and Leonard immersed themselves in the educational culture at the school in Bloomfield. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Students and teachers at Blanco Elementary School in Bloomfield are wrapping up the school year with newfound confidence and proficiency in mathematics, thanks to the ongoing work with Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Math and Science Read More

LANL Foundation Española Students Complete First Year Of Innovative Program To Prepare For Healthcare Careers

LANL Foundation News:

ESPAÑOLA — Sixteen students from Española Valley High School have completed this school year already on their way to high demand healthcare careers in their community.

The Española Healthcare Career Pathways Project both prepares students to be able to transition into well-paying healthcare jobs while addressing the chronic healthcare workforce shortage in an area that has long been medically underserved.

“The Española Healthcare Careers Pathway Project will change lives and be a tipping point for this community,” said Brenda Romero, Presbyterian Española Hospital Read More

Rotarian Kurt Schoenberg Invites Markus Roth of Technische Universität Darmstadt To Tuesday’s Rotary Club Meeting

Los Alamos Rotarian Kurt Schoenberg, left, physicist and professor, invited fellow Rotarian Markus Roth of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany to the Rotary Club meeting Tuesday, May 23 at Cottonwood on the Greens. Schoenberg and Roth, friends and researchers, work together in Germany, and it was Roth who encouraged Schoenberg to join the local Rotary Club. Roth visits the Los Alamos meetings as often as his international schedule allows. He and Schoenberg are currently attending the annual International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) in Santa Fe. Photo by Linda Hull Read More

Cornell Lab Of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID App Achieves Worldwide Coverage

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology News:

Ithaca, NY—The free Merlin Bird ID app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology just hit a major milestone. This digital field guide and ID assistant can now help users identify birds in any country—a grand total of 10,315 species. Merlin provides detailed descriptions, photos, and sounds of each bird, and innovative features to help users identify what they saw.

“The original idea for Merlin was all about helping you figure out ‘What’s that bird I’m seeing’ in a quick and simple way,” Read More

LANL: Did Rising Seas Play Role In Viking Abandonment Of Greenland Settlements?

Science: Did rising seas play a role in Viking abandonment of Greenland settlements?

The Vikings’ final disappearance from Greenland remains enigmatic. Historians and archaeologists attribute their departure to a range of environmental factors—worsening weather in a changing climate, flooding, erosion, shrinking markets for walrus ivory (a staple trade good) and ongoing conflict with the indigenous Inuit people. The story, it turns out, is a bit more complicated. New research adds another, surprising factor: Sea-level rise, driven counterintuitively by advancing glaciers, may
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Well R-44 Report Added To LANL Public Reading Room

LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:

  • Well R-44 Maintenance Report (Link)
  • Submittal of the Investigation Report for Lower Water/Indio Canyons Aggregate Area, Revision 1 (Link)

Members of the public Read More

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