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Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Meets Friday

RCLC News:

The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities will hold its Regular Business Meeting 9-11 a.m. Friday, March 21 at Santa Fe County Chambers, 102 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe.  

The Regional Coalition is comprised of eight cities and counties surrounding the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Founded in 2011, the Regional Coalition works in partnership to ensure national decisions incorporate local needs and concerns. The organization’s focus is environmental remediation, regional economic development and site employment, and Read More

WIPP UPDATE: Internet Rumors About Safety Concerns Are Inaccurate

WIPP News:

An Internet rumor has been fueling concerns about the need to be prepared to evacuate southeastern New Mexico because of recent events at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

There is absolutely no basis for these rumors. Monitoring conducted by Nuclear Waste Partnership of air, soil, water and vegetation are showing no radiation releases that would approach levels causing health concerns. Independent monitoring by the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center has reached similar conclusions. (View CEMRC’s monitoring data at CEMRC.org.)

In a recent letter to New Read More

New Airborne GPS Technology For Weather Conditions Takes Flight

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego geophysicist Jennifer Haase is seated at the controls of GISMOS, a 205-pound GPS atmospheric measurement system, testing the equipment prior to flights during a 2010 campaign. The equipment is installed in the cabin of a reconfigured Gulfstream V business jet. Courtesy/Scripps Institution of Oceanography

AGU News:

LA JOLLA – GPS technology has broadly advanced science and society’s ability to pinpoint locations and motion, from driving directions to tracking ground motions during earthquakes. A new technique stands to improve weather

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SFI Colloquium: ‘Informational Principles in the Perception-Action Loop’

Daniel Polani. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

Santa Fe Institute Colloquium • Tuesday, March 18 • 3:30 p.m. • Noyce Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe

Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, presents “Informational Principles in the Perception-Action Loop.”

Abstract.  Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety (1956) and, in last years, especially its later rediscovery and extension by Touchette and Lloyd (2000, 2004) have indicated that Shannon information acts as fundamental “currency” constraining the potential organization and “administration” Read More

Public Invited to Tour New Mexico Consortium Biolab

N.M. Consortium Biolab. Courtesy/NMC

LACC News:

The public is invited to tour the New Mexico Consortium Biolab at a Los Alamos Chamber of FAN Club event 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19.

The Biolab is at 100 Entrada Dr. in Los Alamos.

The Consortium is involved in many different areas of research and the staff will speak about them during the tour. Read More

Los Alamos Scientist Addresses Bioaerosol Risks and Detection

Kristin Omberg. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

A biological attack could spread through a population quickly and have a devastating effect. An early detection system would be key to reducing a population’s chance of exposure. The challenge is how to detect and identify an agent before people start getting sick.

“The 2001 anthrax letters contained only a few grams of material ─ about two sugar cubes’ worth. The federal government is concerned about attacks with hundreds of grams of material. So how do we protect ourselves against an attack with a whole bag of sugar the next time?” said Kristin Read More

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