Science

AGU: Last Arctic Ice Refuge Disappearing

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New research finds the Arctic’s oldest and thickest ice is more mobile and is vanishing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic. Courtesy/NOAA
 
AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research.
 
A new study in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters finds ice in the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland is more mobile than previously thought, as ocean currents and atmospheric winds are likely transporting the old, thick ice found there to other parts of the Arctic.
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RDC Announces 2019 TEAM Funding Recipients

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Chronicle Cremation Designs, LLC, dba Parting Stone – Parting Stone empowers people in their grief by designing gateways to meaningful experiences around death. Courtesy/RDC
 
Patrick’s Fine Foods – Manufacturer of probiotic sparkling waters designed to replace sugary drinks and mixers with great tasting, low sugar alternatives. TEAM funds will be used to purchase a refrigerated delivery truck and new bottle-filling equipment.  CourtesyRDC
 
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ESPANOLA ― The Regional Development Corporation (RDC), a private non-profit organization
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LANL Foundation Awards $94,309.30 In Small Grants To Education And Community Programs

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LANLF News:
 
ESPANOLA — Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation recently awarded 39 grants totaling $94,309.30 in the second of two annual cycles in its 2019 small grants funding process. Grants of up to $2,500 in two funding categories support the work of schools, nonprofits and community programs in Northern New Mexico.
 
Education Outreach Grants worth $56,921.30 were awarded to 24 programs that directly support K–12 public school education, students and teachers.
 
  • ARTsmart, ARTreach: art education program in Dixon and Abiquiu Elementary schools
  • Atalaya
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AGU: Size Of Thunderstorm Dome Clouds May Predict Tornado Intensity

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Twin violent (EF4) tornadoes outside of Wisner, Nebr. June 16, 2014. Courtesy/NOAA/Ethan Schisler
 
Tornadoes typically form beneath a thunderstorm’s updraft and overshooting top. Courtesy/NOAA
 
AGU News:
 
The size of a bulge at the top of a thunderstorm’s anvil-shaped cloud may allow researchers to forecast the strength of tornadoes that spawn from such storms, according to a new study in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters.
 
Tornadoes, particularly those with strong winds, pose a serious threat to the property and lives of people in their path. Yet scientists
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PEEC: Explore Cepheid Pulsating Variable Stars Tonight

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Join Joyce Guzik at 7 p.m. today in the Nature Center’s planetarium to explore the latest updates on Cepheid variable stars. PEEC also will show the full-dome film ‘Out There’ at 2 p.m., Saturday. Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC will show the full-dome film ‘Out There’ at 2 p.m., Saturday in the Nature Center’s planetarium. Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
The community is invited to the Los Alamos Nature Center at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22 to explore the latest discoveries related to Cepheid variable stars — the yardsticks of the universe.
 
At this talk, Joyce
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NIST: Fly Me (Partway) To The Moon

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NASA’s ER-2 taking off with air-LUSI moonlight collection equipment on board. Photo/Ken Ulbrich/NASA
 
NIST News:
 
Last week, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Guelph sent a telescope to the top of the sky, almost to space itself.
 
The trip was a moonlight-gathering mission that has yielded some of the best measurements ever taken of the brightness, or more specifically the surface reflectance, of Earth’s
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Native American Scientist Floy Agnes Lee Made History In Los Alamos And Beyond

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Floy Agnes Lee. Courtesy/AHF

 
By Heather McClenahan
Los Alamos Historical Society

Floy Agnes Lee, a Native American who worked on the Manhattan Project and whose career provided insights into cancer research and radiation biology, is an unsung hero of science.

We share her story in celebration of Native American Heritage month in hopes that her contributions will become more well known.

Lee’s father was from Santa Clara Pueblo and her mother descended from German-Americans in Indiana. She grew up in Albuquerque, where her parents taught at the Indian School. Lee had just finished a Read More

NIST’s Light-Sensing Camera May Help Detect Extraterrestrial Life, Dark Matter

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Micrograph of NIST’s high-resolution camera made of 1,024 sensors that count single photons, or particles of light. The camera was designed for future space-based telescopes searching for chemical signs of life on other planets. The 32-by-32 sensor array is surrounded by pink and gold wires connecting to electronics that compile the data. Courtesy/V. Verma/NIST
 
NIST News:
 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the highest-performance cameras ever composed of sensors that count single photons, or particles of light.
 
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Beierschmitt Briefs RCLC On Lab Infrastructure Plans

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LANL Deputy Director of Operations Kelly Beierschmitt shares infrastructure plans with the RCLC Board Friday in Española. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
DOE-EM Manager Doug Hintz of the Los Alamos Field Office updates the RCLC Board during a meeting Friday in Española. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Española – It’s no secret Los Alamos National Laboratory has growing pains. Increased budgets and increased staff are a plus, but the extra projects and people have stretched the infrastructure Read More

AGU: Earth’s Magnetic Song Recorded For First Time During Solar Storm

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In this image, Earth is the dot to the left of the image and the large arc around it is our planet’s magnetic bow shock. The swirling pattern to the right is the foreshock region where the solar wind breaks into waves as it encounters reflected particles from the bow shock. The image was created using the Vlasiator model, a computer simulation developed at the University of Helsinki to study Earth’s magnetic interaction with the solar wind. Courtesy/Vlasiator team, University of Helsinki
 
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the
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