Los Alamos Field Office Security Professional Cary Bronson Earns Top Agency Award
Steve Asher, left, NNSA Acting Chief and Associate Administrator for the Office of Defense Nuclear Security, presents Cary Bronson of the Los Alamos Field Office with the agency’s Federal Security Professional of the Year award. Courtesy/NNSA
NNSA News:
Cary Bronson of the Los Alamos Field Office Security Operations Team is the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Federal Security Professional of the Year.
Bronson provides federal oversight of the nuclear Material Control and Accountability (MC&A)operations and programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
On Monday, Read More
Early Social History of Los Alamos Focus of 70th Anniversary Lecture at Bradbury Science Museum
Cars stopped at the main guard gate to Los Alamos looking east. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- TNMSU history professor Jon Hunner speaks May 8
The early social history of Los Alamos during Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Manhattan Project beginnings will be discussed at a talk by Jon Hunner at 5:30 p.m., May 8 at the Laboratory’s Bradbury Science Museum.
The talk is part of the Laboratory’s 70th anniversary lecture series.
Hunner heads the Department of History at New Mexico State University and is responsible for administering the department and teaching U.S., New Mexico and public history courses. Read More
Exploring Mars with Curiosity Subject of Next LANL Frontiers in Science Lectures
LANL scientist Roger Wiens. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Roger Wiens talks about the NASA Mars Curiosity rover, its journey to Mars and some of its discoveries on the Red Planet thus far in a series of Frontiers in Science presentations beginning May 7 in the Duane Smith Auditorium at Los Alamos High School.
Wiens repeats his talk:
- May 9 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque
- May 14 in the James A. Little Theater of the New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe
- May 16 in the Taoseño Room
New Guide Details Steps for Preserving Biological Evidence
A forensic technician collects biological material from a pipe bomb. Courtesy/Forensic Science Program, PSU
NIST News:
A new handbook by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provides forensic laboratories, law enforcement agencies and the judicial system with state-of-the-art guidelines and recommended best practices for preserving biological evidence so that it is available at any time to solve “cold cases,” confirm the guilt of criminals or exonerate the innocent.
Biological evidence refers Read More
‘Science on Screen’ Shows ‘Sneakers’ with Commentary by Simon DeDeo
Simon DeDeo. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos Improves Biomass-To-Fuel Process
Los Alamos improves biomass-to-fuLos Alamos research better converts energy from fields into fuel tanks. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
One of the more promising roads to energy independence leads away from crude oil and into the forests and fields.
For years, scientists have been seeking efficient means to convert non-food based biomass into fuels and chemical feedstocks, reducing fossil-fuel dependence and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
To that end, Los Alamos scientists and collaborators from The University of Guelph in Canada published an article in the scientific journal Nature Read More
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