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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony At Canyon Complex

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From left, County Councilor Pete Sheehey and Vice Chair David Izraelevitz and Councilor James Chrobocinski, right, join School Board Member Bill Hargraves and LAPS Superintendent Kurt Steinhaus (scissors) at this morning’s ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completion of remodeling at the Canyon Complex. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Newly remodeled Canyon Complex. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Staff Report
 
Los Alamos Public Schools officials, County Council members and County and LANL staff gathered this morning to cut the ribbon and
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NMC Meets Job Creation Goals On LEDA Grant

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NMC has created 32 new jobs in Los Alamos since receiving a LEDA award from Los Alamos County in March of 2012. Courtesy/LANL

NMC News:

  • Research facility creates jobs and economic advantage to Los Alamos County.

The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) has created 32 new jobs in Los Alamos since receiving a LEDA award from Los Alamos County in March of 2012. NMC Executive Director Katharine Chartrand reported to the Los Alamos County Council the progress of NMC’s LEDA award Tuesday night.

“The NMC met the job creation goals of the LEDA grant in three years,” Chartrand said. “We need to sustain those Read More

Analyzing Ocean Mixing Reveals Insight On Climate

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A Three-dimensional spatial structure of mixing in an idealized ocean simulation, computed using Lagrangian particle statistics. Courtesy/LANL
 
LANL News:
  • Eddies pull carbon emissions into deep ocean, new model simulates complex process

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a computer model that clarifies the complex processes driving ocean mixing in the vast eddies that swirl across hundreds of miles of open ocean.

“The model enables us to study the important processes of ocean storms, which move heat and carbon from the atmosphere into the deep ocean,”

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SFI Seminar Presents Torrin Liddell June 25

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SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute presents “Inequality, Community, and Common Knowledge: The effects of meta-knowledge in cooperation on networks” seminar with Torrin Liddell (Indiana University), 12:15 p.m. Thursday, June 25, at Noyce Conference Room in Santa Fe.
 
Abstract: For a group to have common knowledge of some fact, they must all know the fact, but also they must all know that they all know it, and this knowledge must also be known, and so on.
 
Common knowledge of behavioral rules and intentions is crucial to basic social tasks, ranging from cooperative
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Heinrich On Jill Hruby’s Appointment To Lead SNL

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Jill Hruby will become the 14th director of Sandia National Laboratories and the first woman to lead one of the three National Nuclear Security Administration laboratories. Courtesy/SNL

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., released the following statement today after it was announced that Jill Hruby will be the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories.

“Jill Hruby is an accomplished and admired public servant.  For more than three decades she’s dedicated her career to energy development and cutting-edge Read More

General Leslie R. Groves’ Grandson Visits Los Alamos

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At Thursday’s gathering from left, Mark Rayburn, Fuller Lodge/Historic Districts Advisory Board Chair; Nancy Bartlit, WWII author and former President of the Los Alamos Historical Society; John Bartlit, advocate for Los Alamos Historical Society and environmental columnist; Nina Johnson, Executive Director of Cornerstones Community Partners; Dick Groves, Grandson of General Leslie R. Groves; Paul Millar, friend and business partner of Dick Groves Photo by Tom Sandford, Los Alamos Historical Society board member and historical district tour guide. Photo by Tom Sandford/Los Read More

Letter To The Editor: Hopefully LANL Will Reconsider

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By JEFFREY ROBERTS
White Rock

Los Alamos National Laboratory regularly purports to be supportive of Northern New Mexico, Los Alamos, and the surrounding communities.  

They say how much they support local business, people, and outreach. I know they have a community outreach department for just such publicity.

So what do they do to express this support? They permanently close local salvage operations. They take what has been an institution at LANL, a program that has run for some 50 years or more, and give it to a Texas based company geared to selling to professional businesses.

I have no

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WIPP Update: Breidenbach Officially Takes Over As NWP President & Project Manager

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WIPP News:
 
On June 11, Phil Breidenbach officially assumed the role of NWP President & Project Manager, replacing Bob McQuinn. McQuinn served in that capacity for just over a year.
 
Breidenbach, who brings over 30 years of experience working at various Department of Energy facilities, served a key role in the development of the WIPP Recovery Plan following the radiological event. His past experience includes operations and project management at various nuclear facilities, including several that involved some type of recovery operations.
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Heinrich Works Key Provisions Into Defense Bill

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
 
SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted Thursday for the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed by a vote of 71 to 25.
 
The bill includes key provisions Heinrich worked to include that benefit New Mexico’s men and women in uniform, military installations, private industry, national laboratories, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
 
The bill, which sets the Department of Defense spending levels
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Names New Leadership For Weapons And Operations Directorates

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LANL’s new Principal Associate Director for Weapons Programs Bob Webster. Courtesy/LANL

LANL’s new Principal Associate Director for Operations Craig Leasure. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan announced today that after nationwide searches, Robert (Bob) Webster has been selected to be the Laboratory’s next Principal Associate Director for Weapons Programs, and Craig Leasure has been selected as the new Principal Associate Director for Operations. 

Webster to Lead Weapons Directorate

As the Weapons Program leader, Read More