Heinrich Votes to Advance New Mexico FERC Nominations
U.S. Sen. Martin Henrich
U.S. SENATE News:
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. voted Wednesday in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to advance Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner nominees Norman C. Bay and Estevan López for membership on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Both nominees are New Mexico natives.
President Obama has indicated his intention to designate Bay as chairman of the FERC once he is confirmed. Bay and López’s nominations will move forward for a final Senate confirmation vote at a later date.
During their nomination hearings in May, Heinrich Read More
DOE Awards $100 Million for Innovative Energy Research
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
DOE News:
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced the awarding of $100 million for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy. The research supported by the initiative will enable fundamental advances in energy production, storage and use.
“Today, we are mobilizing some of our most talented scientists to join forces and pursue the discoveries and breakthroughs that will lay the foundation for our nation’s energy future,” Moniz said. “The funding we’re announcing Read More
As Many as 75 CDC Scientists Exposed to Anthrax After Violation of Handling Procedure
Image of antrax spores. Courtesy photo
SECURITY News:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said earlier today that as many as 75 scientists working in CDC laboratories in Atlanta, Ga., may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria after researchers deviated from established pathogen handling procedures.
The scientists are now being treated to prevent infection. The New York Times reports that so far none of the scientists has exhibited any symptoms. The exposure occurred after researchers working in a high-level biosecurity laboratory located at the CDC Read More
Los Alamos Police Partner With ICAC Special Agents to Apprehend Man Suspected of Crimes Against Children
Christopher W. Davis. Courtesy/LAPD
POLICE Alert:
Los Alamos police officers assisted special agents from the Attorney General’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children’s (ICAC) Task Force Tuesday after New Mexico special agents were alerted to a suspect in Los Alamos County who had been sending lewd photographs to a 14-year-old girl in Anoka County in Minnesota.
ICAC Special Agents and Los Alamos Police executed a search warrant Tuesday at a White Rock residence where the suspect, Christopher W. Davis, 21, of Los Alamos was residing. During the execution of the search warrant and further Read More
Join Old Santa Fe Trail Building Celebration July 1
Old Santa Fe Trail Building courtyard and pond. Courtesy/NPS
NPS News:
SANTA FE – 75 years ago this summer, in the depths of the Great Depression, hundreds of young Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers completed the largest adobe office building in the United States, in the heart of old Santa Fe.
Tuesday, July 1 the National Park Service (NPS), caretaker and original occupant of the Old Santa Fe Trail Building, marks this milestone with an open house.
The celebration begins at 3 p.m. with a program of brief speeches hosted by Sue Masica, director of the NPS Intermountain Region, which Read More
Garret Nelson of Los Alamos Promoted to Captain in United States Marine Corps
Garret Nelson with his father Lew Nelson, mother Lori Nelson and grandmother Nina Laird. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
Garret Nelson of Los Alamos was promoted June 6 to the rank of Captain in the United State Marine Corps.
Capt. Nelson is a 2004 graduate of Los Alamos High School. He received his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 2010.
Cap. Nelson is currently stationed at Marine Air Corp New River, N.C. He is assigned to Squadron HMLA 167, where he pilots the AH-1W Super Cobra. Read More
PMI Breaks Ground in Española; Expansion Will Create 50 New Jobs
From left, Española Mayor Alice Lucero, NMEDD Cabinet Secretary Jon Barela, Gov. Susana Martinez and Celina and Eric Quintana Break Ground at PMI’s New Site. Courtesy photo
BUSINESS News:
ESPANOLA – Eric Quintana, founder of Performance Maintenance, Inc. (PMI), is putting down roots for his growing business with a new expansion in Española. Since launching PMI with his wife Celina from their home in 1994, the company now boasts more than 80 employees in two states.
Gov. Susana Martinez and New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) Cabinet Secretary Jon Barela were the Read More
LANL: Probing Fukushima With Cosmic Rays Should Speed Cleanup
Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral researcher Elena Guardincerri, right, and undergraduate research assistant Shelby Fellows prepare a lead hemisphere inside a muon tomography machine, which can peer inside closed containers and provide detailed images of dense objects such as nuclear materials or other items of interest. The detector, developed at Los Alamos, uses muons — tiny particles generated when cosmic rays interact with Earth’s atmosphere — to do its work, providing a simple, passive system that can be used to thwart nuclear smugglers or look inside Read More
Los Alamos Police, Fire, Schools to Receive $85,962 in PILT Funding
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich today announced counties in New Mexico are set to receive approximately $37 million as part of the 2014 Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program, an over 8 percent increase from 2013.
New Los Alamos Approach May Be Key to Quantum Dot Solar Cells With Real Gains in Efficiency
Core/shell PbSe/CdSe quantum dots (a) and a carrier multiplication (CM) pathway (b) in these nano structures. (a) Transmission electron microscopy image of thick-shell PbSe/CdSe quantum dots developed for this study. (b) A hot hole generated in the shell via absorption of a photon collides with a core-localized valence-band electron, promoting it across the energy-gap, which generates a second electron-hole pair. In thick-shell PbSe/CdSe quantum dots this process is enhanced due to slow relaxation of shell-localized holes into the core.Courtesy/LANL
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