Historic Los Alamos Gathering
A historic gathering occurred Monday as LANL Director Charlie McMillan met with retired LANL Director Robert Kuckuck in first LANL Director Robert J. Oppenheimer’s historic home on Bathtub Row in Los Alamos. Kuckuck will speak this evening at the Los Alamos Historical Society’s annual meeting in Fuller Lodge. Events kick off at 6 p.m. with pizza, ice cream and the Experience Auction. At 6:45 p.m. the annual business meeting will take place. Dr. Kuckuck will speak at 7:30 p.m. on his life as a Cold Warrior. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical SocietyRegional Coalition Pleased with DOE Reprogramming Request for LANL Clean Up Funding
RCLC News:
SANTA FE—The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities is pleased to announce that New Mexico is one step closer to receiving critical federal funding needed to maintain ongoing environmental management efforts at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Last week, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House sent a reprogramming request to Congress in the amount of $19 million. Reprogramming will allow the DOE to move necessary funds between their accounts during the current fiscal year but Read More
Warmer Springs Causing Loss of Snow Cover Throughout Rocky Mountains
A new study of the Rocky Mountains finds that, since 1980, warmer spring temperatures have reduced snow cover throughout the range. Photo by Jeremy Littell
AGU/USGS News:
WASHINGTON—Warmer spring temperatures since 1980 are causing an estimated 20 percent loss of snow cover across the Rocky Mountains of western North America, according to a new study.
The research builds upon a previous snowpack investigation by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that showed that, until the 1980s, the northern Rocky Mountains experienced large snowpacks when the central and southern Rockies experienced Read More
NIST Researchers Propose New Old Way to Purify Carbons Nanotubes
Three examples of partitioning carbon nanotubes in liquid phases. Left, nanotubes partitioned by diameter. Smaller diameters, on the bottom, appear purple. Center, partitioned between semiconductors (amber, top) and metals. Right, a sample with different diameter range partitioned between metals (yellow) and semiconductors. Color differences are due to differences in electronic structure. Photo by Baum/NIST
NIST news:
An old, somewhat passé, trick used to purify protein samples based on their affinity for water has found new fans at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Read More
Searching for Clandestine Graves with Geophysical Tools
Workers examine remains at a mass grave in eastern Bosnia in 2004. Photo by Polargeo
AGU News:
By , National University of Colombia, Bogota and , National University of Colombia, Bogota
Cancún, Mexico — It’s very hard to convict a murderer if the victim’s body can’t be found. And the best way to hide a body is to bury it.
Developing new tools to find those clandestine graves is the goal of a small community of researchers spread across several countries, some of whom are presenting their work on Tuesday, May 14, at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancún, Mexico, a scientific Read More
Underground Testing at Livermore Subject of Talk by Former LANL Director Robert Kuckuck
Former LANL Director Robert Kuckuck will discuss underground testing at Livermore National Laboratory Tuesday. Courtesy photoBy KIRSTEN LASKEY
Lasers, underground explosive testing, the Cold War – it all sounds like material for a spy novel. These are some of the topics former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Deputy Director Robert Kuckuck will discuss during a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fuller Lodge.
The talk, “Cold War Recollections: A Livermore Underground Test Perspective,” is part of the Los Alamos Historical Society’s lecture Read More
Greenhouse Dinner Celebrates Bio Lab Completion
NMC Biological Laboratory Greenhouse, 100 Entrada Dr., set to serve dinner Thursday. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com
LANL Deputy Director Beth Sellers addresses dinner guests at the new Bio Lab Thursday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Staff Report
Guests primarily from the worlds of science and education attended a special “Greenhouse Dinner” Thursday at the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) Biological Laboratory, 100 Endrada Dr., near the entrance to Los Alamos.
NMC Executive Director Katherine Chartrand, Los Alamos National Laboratory Deputy Director Read More
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