Sen. Tom Udall Visits NMC’s Bio Lab
Sen. Tom Udall, center, questions scientist Natalia Friedland, left, about her research on plants to be used as biofuel. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com 
Sen. Tom Udall addresses guests at a reception during his visit to the New Mexico Consortium’s Biological Laboratory and Greenhouse Friday. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., visited the New Mexico Consortium’s Biological Research Laboratory and Greenhouse in Los Alamos Friday. The Senator toured the facility, talked with researchers and spoke to guests Read More
LANL: Natural Resource Damage Assessment Public Comment Period Extended 30 Days
LANL News:
The Los Alamos National Laboratory Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council (LANL Trustee Council) announces a 30-day extension to the public comment period for the Draft LANL Natural Resource Damage Assessment Plan.
The Trustee Council released the draft assessment plan last month, followed by a public meeting about the plan. The comment period will run through Jan. 13.
The LANL Trustee Council is composed of representatives of the State of New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Pueblo of Jemez, the Pueblo de San Ildefonso, Santa Clara Pueblo, and the U.S. Department Read More
SFI Presents Linguistics Seminar
Andy Wedel. Courtesy photo
SFI News:
Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona will present a Santa Fe Institute Seminar titled “The Lexicon as a Dynamical System: The Drive to Keep Words Distinct and the Evolution of Pheneme Inventories” at 12: 15 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11 in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute (1390 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe). This seminar is free and open to the public. Those attending are invited to bring their own lunch.
Seminar Abstract: All human languages make use of small systems of signal categories, such as the sounds [p] and [b], in combination to compose Read More
LANL: Neutron Stars’ X-ray Superbursts Mystify, Inspire Los Alamos Scientists
Neutron star. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- New neutrino cooling theory changes understanding of stars’ surface
Massive X-ray superbursts near the surface of neutron stars are providing a unique window into the operation of fundamental forces of nature under extreme conditions.
“Scientists are intrigued by what exactly powers these massive explosions, and understanding this would yield important insights about the fundamental forces in nature, especially on the astronomical/cosmological scale,” said Peter Moller of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Division.
A neutron Read More
Martian Laser Surpasses 100,000 Zaps
Fig. 1. This figure is a ChemCam Remote Micro Imager (RMI) image of the target ‘Ithaca.’ The image is a mosaic of three separate images taken on Sol 439, with the scale as shown. The image shows the scars from the 10 LIBS points labeled from point 1 to point 10. One of the 30 shots at point no. 1 was the 100,000th firing of the ChemCam laser. The distance to the target from the ChemCam telescope at the top of the mast was 4.04 m. The vertical line of 10 points taken by ChemCam on Ithaca, starts in a pitted lower coarser grained unit and crosses into a finer grained, smoother, upper unit. The chemical Read More
Udall Presents Two New Mexico Consortium Outstanding Achievement Awards for Mentored Research
Sangeeta Negi works with Dr. Richard Sayre, a joint NMC-LANL scientist. Courtesy/LANL
Loreen Lamoureux of UNM. Photo by Ann Kuiper
LANL News:
- Sangeeta Negi of the NMC and Loreen Lamoureux of UNM to receive awards for their work in Algal Bio-technology and Bio-medical Engineering.
Senator Tom Udall will recognize Dr. Sangeeta Negi of the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) for achieving a two-fold increase in bio-mass productivity in algae this Friday. Loreen Lamoureux, a graduate student at the University of New Mexico (UNM) will be recognized for her work on rapid E. coli detection methods. Read More
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