Just Crazy to Ski Raffle Benefits Bathtub Row Press
HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
The Los Alamos Historical Society and Pajarito Mountain Ski Area have teamed up for a raffle featuring the publication, Just Crazy to Ski: A Fifty Year History of Skiing at Los Alamos.
For $10, raffle ticket buyers will receive the book and an opportunity to win a 2013-2014 season pass to the Ski Hill.
Only 700 tickets will be sold. The drawing will be held Nov. 1, 2013. (Yes, that is more than one year away, as is the season for which the ski pass can be used.)
Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Historical Society’s publishing venture, Bathtub Row Press, which has put Read More
Los Alamos Historical Museum Prepares Exhibit ‘Jack Aeby: His Life and Work Beyond the Blast’
A new exhibit is going up today in the Changing Exhibit Room of the Los Alamos Historical Museum: “Jack Aeby: His Life and Work Beyond the Blast.” Aeby took the only color photograph of the Trinity test. His daughter has been working together with a museum specialist and an archivist to prepare the extraordinary exhibit for a special public opening from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7. Courtesy/LAHM Read More
Former LANL Director Drops By Local Bookstore
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Robert Kuckuck stopped in to peruse the books and gifts available in the Otowi Station Bookstore Thursday. Consensus among employees: “What a nice man.” Kuckuck is pictured here in his office preparing for a business meeting. Courtesy photo
LANL Researcher Named as American Chemical Society Fellow
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientist Kristin Omberg was named as an American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow for her contributions to national security as a “technical leader in detecting and mitigating biological threats” and to the ACS community.
Omberg is the acting division leader of the Decision Applications Division and the Laboratory’s project leader for the Department of Homeland Security’s BioWatch Program.
BioWatch is a detection system that monitors for potential airborne bioterror attacks. Her BioWatch team in the Decision Applications Division provides Read More
Federal Sustainability Requirements and LANL
LASE NETWORK News:
Energy Manager Monica Witt of Utilities & Institutional Facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory will present a talk on “Federal Sustainability Requirements and LANL” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5 in the upstairs meeting rooms at Mesa Public Library.
Witt has worked at LANL for 10 years in the environmental and energy management fields. She has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies.
As the Energy Manager of Utilities & Institutional Facilities, she is responsible for implementing projects to reduce energy and water to meet the Laboratory’s Read More
LANL Provides HOPE for Radiation Belt Storm Probes
Artist’s rendering showing two spacecraft representing the not-yet-designed Radiation Belt Storm Probes that will study the sun and its effects on Earth. Courtesy/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
LANL News:
- Spacecraft pair to explore mysterious region where other satellites fear to tread
Los Alamos National Laboratory expertise in radiation detection and shielding is poised to help a national team of scientists better understand a mysterious region that can create hazardous space weather near our home planet.
The Helium Oxygen Proton Electron (HOPE) analyzer Read More
Tauscher named to LLNS and LANS Boards of Governors
LANL News:
Norman J. Pattiz, chairman of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) and Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), has announced that the Honorable Ellen O. Tauscher has been named as an independent governor on the LLNS and LANS Boards of Governors.
The LLCs manage Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, respectively, for the U.S. Department of Energy. The appointments take effect Sept. 17.
Tauscher has also been appointed as a member of the LANS/LLNS Boards’ Mission Committee. The Mission Committee serves Read More
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