World Oceans Month Brings Mixed News for Oysters
Oysters at hatcheries in Oregon are showing the effects of ocean acidification. Courtesy/OSU
Pacific oysters, healthy at Taylor Shellfish Farms; will the oysters survive ocean acidification? Courtesy/Taylor Shellfish Farm, NOAA
NSF News:
- Ocean acidification inhibits shell formation, but interventions at hatcheries may offset some effects, scientists find
In World Oceans Month, there’s mixed news for the Pacific Northwest oyster industry.
For the past several years, it has struggled with significant losses due to ocean acidification. Oyster larvae have had mortality rates Read More
LANS Provides Over $180,000 to Nonprofits
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees Cynthia Fuentes, left, and Brian Foley help fill sandbags at Santa Clara Pueblo in 2011. They are assisted by Brenden Baca, 9. Courtesy photo
LANL News:
- Employees and retirees perform 270,000 volunteer hours
Nonprofit organizations will receive more than $180,000 from Los Alamos National Security (LANS), LLC during a recognition event beginning at 9:30 a.m. June 12, at Fuller Lodge in downtown Los Alamos.
LANS contributions are determined by the number of volunteer hours logged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and retirees through Read More
Bradbury Kicks Off ‘Downtown Friday Night’
Staff Report
Find out what Los Alamos has to offer from 5-8 p.m. at the Bradbury Science Museum, just prior to the Friday Los Alamos Summer Concert in downtown Los Alamos.
The community collaboration was designed to introduce an opportunity to, “Discover Los Alamos,” especially for new families to Los Alamos, LANL post-doctoral fellows and summer students.
The hands-on event will be a hub of community resources, opportunities, networking and activities.
Those who work with the clubs, organizations and businesses involved in the project will be on hand to answer questions, provide literature Read More
NNSA’s Mike Duvall Speaks to Los Alamos Rotarians
Former New Mexico Homeland Security and Emergency Management Cabinet Secretary Mike Duvall presented a program on Terrorism and Security: International, Homeland, and Cyber during a May 28 meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos.
Duvall, left the position
Yang: From Branding To Identity
From Branding To IdentityI appreciate people taking the time to give me feedback. The branding piece last week evoked some strong feelings.
I cannot claim that a large number of readers resonated with my piece; I can only say that the people who responded to me by and large shared my expressed sentiment. One of the suggestions that struck me – and I have heard this view repeatedly since we moved here in 2002 – is that this town takes forever to make decisions.
Based on my brief sojourn at the Lab, as well as the steady stream of stories I have been hearing for more than a decade, it is not Read More
SFI Seminar: The Slum as Organism
SFI Seminar
Monday, June 10, 2013 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Jan Nijman Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Slum as Organism
Abstract: Urban slums have proliferated throughout the developing world in cities of the so-called global south. In Mumbai, India, over half of the population of 12 million is now said to live in slums, a greater number in absolute and relative terms than ever before, despite a range of successive policies aimed at slum eradication or rehabilitation. Why do slums emerge and why Read More
LANL: New Phase Of Matter Discovered In Superconducting Material
Arkady Shekhter setting up the resonant ultrasound measurement in a flow cryostat. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Researchers probe ‘pseudogap’ phase boundary, solve decades-old mystery
Tiny crystals, probed with a device called a resonant ultrasound spectrometer, are helping solve the long-time mystery of “pseudogap behavior” in copper oxide superconductors.
Described by an international team including Los Alamos scientists in this week’s Nature magazine, the research explored a compelling question in superconductivity, that of the strange metallic behavior of copper oxide (cuprate) Read More
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