Does Biostimulation Accelerate Algae Growth?
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SCIENCE News:
Does Biostimulation Accelerate Algae Growth?
Algae and bacteria are the fastest growing organisms on our planet. A single algae cell can produce over one million daughter cells in one day. Is this fast enough? All algae producers are limited by sustainable biomass accumulation. Growth rates impact both capital and operational costs. A 20 percent increase in growth rate could give some growers a 30 percent increase in revenue.
John Ericsson, CEO, AlgaStar Inc. presented at the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit in Orlando, Fla., a session titled: Increasing Algal Read More
Applications Still Being Considered for UNM-LA/LANL Tech Frontiers 2014
Students will be taking a field trip to learn about water stewardship practices. Photo/Bigstock
UNM-LA News:
The application deadline for the first session of Tech Frontiers 2014, Environmental Science: The Science Behind The Headlines, has been extended until 4 p.m. Friday, June 13. Backup applications will be accepted until Monday, June 16.
The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), host the Tech Frontiers 2014 program each summer. Class begins Monday, June 23, and runs through Friday, June 27. Daily sessions are 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Read More
Live Webcast on Groundbreaking Results of Algal Biofuels Consortium Today
LANL News:
The Energy Department will present a live webcast titled “Algal Biofuels Consortium Releases Groundbreaking Research Results” 2-3 p.m., today, Wednesday, June 11 Eastern Daylight Time.
During this webinar, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Jose A. Olivares, leader of the laboratory’s Bioscience Division, will present an overview of the technologies and processes developed by the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB) consortium that are needed to widely produce algae-based liquid transportation fuels.
Olivares will also explain the Read More
NNSA Says Security at Y-12 National Security Complex Has Improved
SECURITY News:
Retired Air Force lieutenant-general and now National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) chief Frank Klotz asserted last week that security at the Y-12 National Security Complexat Oak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL) has improved significantly since a July 28, 2012 break-in at the plant when three aging peace activists, led by an 82-year old nun, managed to breach the facility’s supposedly impregnable perimeter security systems.
Before a security guard arrived on the scene, the activists loitered on the grounds of the facility where bomb grade uranium is stored, Read More
SFI Seminar: Cities in the Marshes – Sustainability and Resiliences in Ancient Mesopotania
Carrie Hritz
Santa Fe Institute Seminar – Cities in the Marshes: Sustainability and Resiliences in Ancient Mesopotania
12:15 p.m. • Tuesday, June 10 • Santa Fe Institute Noyce Conference Room, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe.
Abstract: Hritz will be speaking about her recent fieldwork in Southern Iraq, which focuses on the early development of urban society in relationship to the extensive (and relatively unexplored) deltaic marshlands of the Euphrates, Tigris and Karun/Karkeh rivers.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation’s Founding Director Susan Herrera Announces Retirement
Susan Herrera
LANLF News:
Susan Herrera, the founding director of the 17-year-old Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, has announced she is retiring at the end of this year.
Now Chief Executive Officer, Herrera has led the Foundation, which invests in education in seven Northern New Mexico counties, since 1998. During this time, the LANL Foundation has awarded more than $50 million in grants to public schools and nonprofits and today has an endowment of more than $70 million.
Herrera first managed the fledgling foundation from the trunk of her car. Today the Foundation owns its own office Read More
New Video From Los Alamos: Using Neutrons to Study Nuclear Fuel
LANL News:
In the development of advanced nuclear fuels, researchers need to understand the physical and isotopic properties of the fuel as it’s exposed to high temperatures and very high radiation fields. In this video you’ll get a glimpse of how Los Alamos National Laboratory is using a pulsed neutron source at LANSCE to develop new safer and more economic nuclear fuels.
Watch this video here: https:////youtu.be/w4QhJEX6DiQ
See all the Lab’s video stories on the LANL YouTube Channel: https:////www.youtube.com/user/LosAlamosNationalLab Read More
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