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
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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
County Responds to LANL’s Technetium 99 Incident
COUNTY News:
Los Alamos County officials participated in a briefing this morning with DOE officials regarding last week’s incident involving the inadvertent spread of Technetium 99 by lab employees and contractors working at the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANSCE.
After several days of interviews, measuring, surveying and assessment, the DOE’s Radiological Assistance Program (RAP) has been able to successfully identify all individuals and report on their whereabouts since the incident occurred.
About a dozen people had been reportedly involved in the incident, many of whom Read More
LANL Physicist Honored by American Physical Society
GEORGE KYRALA. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist George Kyrala, along with researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is among a team honored with the American Physical Society’s 2012 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research.
The team is being recognized for its work on a far-reaching discovery about laser-matter interaction, which has important implications for LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF.)
The award is for “predicting and demonstrating the technique of laser scatter on self-generated plasma-optics Read More
Chamisa Gets ‘All Clear’ Following LANL’s Technetium-99 Assessment Conducted Sunday
Staff report
On short notice Sunday, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy conducted a precautionary assessment of Chamisa Elementary School.
The sweep by DOE’s RAP team (Radiological Assistance Program) resulted in an “all clear.”
The assessment was the result of the Laboratory’s investigation of an inadvertent spread of Technetium-99 by employees and contractors at LANSCE as reported in the Los Alamos Daily Post Monday.
LANL has determined that about a dozen people came into potential contact with this material, and some tracked small Read More
Valerie Plame Wilson is Keynote Speaker for 5th Annual Women in Technology Celebration
NMTC News:
New Mexico Technology Council’s 5th Annual Women in Technology Celebration is set for 8:30-10 a.m Thursday, Nov. 1 at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid, 5151 San Francisco Road NE in Albuquerque.
The Nov. 1 event recognizes exceptional women in New Mexico who are working in a technology field and who encourage other women to pursue careers and leadership roles in technology.
The 5th Annual Women in Technology Celebration also recognizes women in technology across the state of New Mexico as well as deserving female high school seniors who receive scholarship funds for college. Read More