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Los Alamos Historical Society: Now It Can Be Told

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The news that the Los Alamos Historical Society has been quietly carrying out a ‘History is Here’ capital campaign for the last two years was revealed at a special event Tuesday at Fuller Lodge. The campaign has raised half of its $7 million goal. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
A champagne toast was held Tuesday to celebrate the successful start to the Los Alamos Historical Society ‘History is Here’ capital campaign. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com 
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
A historical event Tuesday at Fuller Lodge
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LANL: Supporting Biosurveillance Via The Web

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Los Alamos science team gathers a virtual biological toolkit for international disease outbreak response

A new online resource, called the Biosurveillance Gateway (https:////bsv.lanl.gov), is in place at Los Alamos National Laboratory, providing a centralized portal for all news, information, resources, and research related to biosurveillance at the laboratory.

“The goal of the site is to support global disease surveillance, providing useful tools developed at Los Alamos for professionals around the world to reference from a single location,” said Alina Read More

LANL: One In Five Online Scholarly Articles Affected By ‘Reference Rot’

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From left, LANL authors Lyudmila Balakireva, Herbert Van De Sompel and Harihar Shankar, and Martin Klein and Robert Sanderson (on computer screens). Their work was published in the Public Library of Science Dec. 26, 2014. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Vanishing web pages make revisiting original references more difficult

While the immediacy of publishing information on the Internet dramatically speeds the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, the transition from a paper-based to a web-based scholarly communication system has introduced challenges that Los Alamos National Laboratory Read More

Climate Change Expert Dr. Nathan McDowell To Speak At Mesa Public Library 7 p.m. Thursday

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LANL researcher Dr. Nathan McDowell will be the featured speaker at a talk at 7 p.m., Thursday in Mesa Public Library’s upstairs rotunda. Courtesy/MPL

MPL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Dr. Nathan McDowell will be the featured speaker at a talk at 7 p.m., Thursday in Mesa Public Library’s upstairs rotunda.

Dr. McDowell is a staff scientist at LANL in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division and also serves as Senior Scientist at the Slovenian Forestry Institute. His talk is entitled “Accelerating Global Vegetation Mortality.”

“I will discuss the evidence demonstrating Read More

NNMCAB Meets At Cities Of Gold Jan. 28

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NNMCAB News:

SANTA FE – The Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board (NNMCAB) will meet 1-5:15 p.m. Jan. 28, at the Cities of Gold Conference Center, 10-B Cities of Gold Road.

Schedule of events:

2 p.m.

  • Thomas Johnson, DOE, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acquisition and Project Management will be present: ‘DOE Contracting 101.’

  • Jack Craig, DOE, Director of the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center will follow and present: ‘Transition and Bridge Contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Transition from National Nuclear Security Administration

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LANL: Annika Hofgaard Presents Talk Jan. 28

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LANL News:

Annika Hofgaard of the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research will present a talk titled Subarctic Forest Advance – Empirical-based Results vs. Modeled Predictions 1-2 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28 in the second floor conference room at the Los Alamos Research Park. 

Hofgaard’s talk is sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Security Education Center (NSEC) and open to the public. 

Annika Hofgaard

Abstract: The subarctic forest is expected to move northward in response to global warming. As a result, a larger proportion of the earth’s

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SFI Seminar: ‘Equation-Free/Variable-Free Computation For Complex/Multiscale Systems’

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Yannis Kevrekidis

SFI News:

Santa Fe Institute will present a seminar by Yannis Kevrekidis of Princeton University titled “Equation-Free/Variable-Free Computation for Complex/Multiscale Systems” at 12:15 p.m., Jan. 27 in the Collins Conference Room at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Abstract. In current modeling practice for complex systems (including agent-based models and evolving networks) the best available descriptions of a system often come at a fine level (atomistic, stochastic, microscopic, individual-based) while the questions asked and the Read More

Energy Secretary Unveils More Than $55 Million To Advance Fuel Efficient Vehicle Technologies

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Energy Secretary Earnest Moniz

DOE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the State of the Union Address Tuesday, Jan. 20 – in which President Obama highlighted the surge in U.S. manufacturing and the strong growth in the auto industry – Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced more than $55 million to develop and deploy cutting-edge vehicle technologies that strengthen the clean energy economy.

These technologies will play a key role in increasing fuel efficiency and reducing petroleum consumption, and support the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in Read More

Heinrich Meets Defense Secretary Nominee Carter

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich meets with Defense Secretary Nominee, Dr. Ash Carter Thursday in Washington, D.C. Courtesy photo

 

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement Thursday after meeting with Defense Secretary nominee, Dr. Ashton Carter:

“We need strong leadership to address the many evolving national security threats that the United States and our allies must confront around the world, particularly in the Middle East, Europe and the Asia Pacific.

“Having Read More

LANS Board Of Governors Approves $2.5 Million For 2015 Community Commitment Plan

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LANL News:

The Los Alamos National Security (LANS) Board of Governors has approved $2.5 million for the 2015 Community Commitment Plan.

This represents a significant increase in the percent of fee allocated for regional community programs. In 2014, the LANS Board provided 5.6 percent of their fee for the Community Commitment Plan. This year, 40 percent of the LANS fee will be used to support education, economic development and community giving programs through the Community Commitment Plan.

“The Board’s decision to dramatically increase the share of their fee devoted to community Read More