Environment

Visit Bandelier Free During ‘Senior Skip Day’ In National Parks Oct. 8

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New arrivals enter the Bandelier Visitor Center. Courtesy/NPS Photo

BANDELIER News:

 

Usually “Senior Skip Day” is a day when high school seniors play hooky. This Thursday, Oct. 8, it will be an opportunity for senior citizens 62 and over, nationwide, to visit National Park units for free.
 
By inviting senior citizens out to the National Park System, “Senior Skip Day” is being promoted by health-care company Humana, for improving the health of the communities they serve.
 
“National parks are great resources offering a range of healthy experiences for people of all
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Kajita And McDonald Receive Nobel Prize In Physics

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SCIENCE News:

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass” to:

Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and

 

 

 

 

Arthur B. McDonald, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.

Metamorphosis in the particle world

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 recognises Takaaki Kajita in Japan and Arthur B. McDonald in Canada, for their key contributions to the experiments, Read More

LANL EM Support Contract Goes To Sigma Science

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DOE News:

CINCINNATI – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to Sigma Science Inc. (SSI) of Los Alamos.

SSI is a Small Business Administration (SBA) Certified 8(a) Program Participant. The contract will have a maximum value of $4 million with a five year ordering period. Firm-fixed-price and time-and-material task orders may be issued from the basic contract.

SSI has 18 years of experience providing nuclear safety, operations, maintenance, engineering, environmental management, project Read More

Lecture On Past, Present And Potential Future Of America’s Red Rock Wilderness Oct. 6

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Cedar Mesa Ruins 2. Photo by James Kay

PEEC News:

Some of the most stunning landscapes in the US are found in the red rock canyon country of southern Utah, yet, most of this magnificent region lies unprotected.

Terri Martin from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, will show stunning images of Utah’s red rocks Tuesday, Oct. 6, as she tells the story of a citizens’ campaign to protect this area, an important resource for outdoor recreation and history. This lecture is 7 p.m. at the Los Alamos Nature Center, 2600 Canyon Road. Participants also will see a short film about the red rock region, narrated Read More

Nobel Prize In Medicine Announced Today

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Youyou Tu searched ancient literature on herbal medicine in her quest to develop novel malaria therapies. The plant Artemisia annua turned out to be an interesting candidate, and Tu developed a purification procedure, which rendered the active agent, Artemisinin, a drug that is remarkably effective against Malaria. Courtesy/nobelprize.org

SCIENCE News:

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to

  • William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against
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Wildland Division Chief Ramon Garcia Leads Hike In Prescribed Burn Site Behind Nature Center Oct. 6

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Smoke plume from the prescribed burn Sept. 28, one hour after initial ignition. Courtesy/PEEC

Smoke rising up from the forest a few hours after the prescribe burn started. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Was the recent prescribed burn successful? What does it look like now? Wildland Division Chief Ramon Garcia will answer these questions and more Tuesday, Oct. 6 during a guided hike into the burned area.

The hike will leave at 5:30 p.m. from the Los Alamos Nature Center to explore areas touched by the recent fire and compare them with parts of the forest left unburned. Participants will return by 6:30 Read More

Santa Fe National Forest Issues Closure Order To Protect New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse Habitat

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New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. Courtesy/fws.gov

SFNF News:

SANTA FE – The Santa Fe National Forest today issued a closure order for four areas on the Jemez Ranger District that have been identified as occupied habitat for the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse.

The closure areas are located along the Rio Cebolla and San Antonio Creek in the Jemez Mountains. In October 2014, the Forest constructed temporary fences in marshy areas along the Rio Cebolla and San Antonio Creek to protect the mouse’s habitat. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) listed the mouse as an endangered species Read More

Dances Of India 2015 At Smith Auditorium Oct. 18

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Dances of India 2015 performs Oct. 18 at the Duane Smith Auditorium. Courtesy/Henrik Sandin Photography

COMMUNITY News:

The community is invited to Dances of India 2015, 4-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos.

This year we will be performing a dance-drama inspired by the movie Toy Story, called Doll Story and will showcase Indian classical dance forms, folk dances, bollywood and belly dance. There also will be a small Indian bazaar 3-3:45 p.m. before the show. 

Admission is FREE, but donations in all forms (cash, check) will be much appreciated. Read More

Study Reveals Urban Smoke Absorbs Sunlight, Exacerbating Climate Warming

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A new study by a science team led by LANL stresses the importance of understanding mixed black and brown carbon in smoke emissions for climate models. The particulates found in urban smoke are especially prone to absorbing sunlight and having a heating effect on the planet. A measurement station, shown here (Detling, UK), is one of several deployed in the UK throughout the study. Photo courtesy Manvendra Dubey/LANL

LANL News:

  • First Field Demonstration Of Warming Caused By Soot And Brown Carbon

Cloaking urban areas and wildfire zones, tiny smoke particles suspended in the atmosphere have a Read More

Tree Death Impact Studied In Forests Worldwide

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Large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and while theories had suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, a new study confirms the concept with a worldwide survey of 38 forests. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

In forests worldwide, drought consistently has had a more detrimental impact on the growth and survival of larger trees, new research shows.

In addition, while the death of small trees may affect the dominance of trees in a landscape, the death of large trees has a far worse impact on the ecosystem and climate’s health, especially due to the important role

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