Science

LANL: ‘Making An Impact & How We’re Driving Toward A Sustainable Future’

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Community: Making an impact

New data reveals the Laboratory’s positive economic impact on New Mexico. Read the full report here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories on “Making an impact and How we are driving toward a sustainable future.”

Operations: How we’re driving toward a sustainable future

Monica Witt, the deputy facility operations director for the Utilities and Infrastructure Division and leader of the Lab’s sustainability program, recently outlined what the Lab is doing to meet the requirement that every federal Read More

2023 Los Alamos County Science Fair Results

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1st place 2023 Science Fair Winner Daniel Kim with LAHS Principal Carter Payne. Courtesy/LAPS

Elementary School Science Fair winners and participants. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

Elementary Award Winners by Category: 

Earth Science:

  • HM- Julian Delorey, “Impact Craters from Asteroids” – Barranca; and
  • HM- Mrs. Littleton’s 2nd Grade Class, “Observing the Water Cycle”, LAOLA.

Life Science:

  • HM – Sebastian Holtkamp, “Best Growing Conditions”, Chamisa;
  • 3rd- Oliver Saenz, “The Rise of Yeast”, Chamisa;
  • 2nd- Sequoya Ke & Benji Minko, “Effects of Different Liquids on a Type of
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Scenes From LAPS 2023 Science Fair

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Daniel Kim earned 1st place and ‘Best of Show’ for the Senior Division for his project ‘Mapping Anthropogenic Ocean Litter with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle’ at the 2023 LAPS Science Fair. He attends LAHS. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Leeza Trudolyubov stands by her project ‘Battel of the Rising Agents’ she attends Mountain Elementary School. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Andres Trujillo stands with her project ‘Rethink that drink’. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Aleyana Baca earned a 3rd place for her project ‘Does Sandclear really work on horses’ in the Junior Read More

Milestone Brings NTS-3 Vanguard Closer To 2023 Launch

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Arlen Biersgreen, program manager, Navigation Technology Satellite-3, or NTS-3, uses a 1:3 scale model to describe the spacecraft and details of the one-year experimental mission to AFRL, leadership and guests at the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate and Directed Energy Directorate 2022 Media Day, June 23, 2022, at KAFB. Courtesy/Andrea Rael, USAF

The Navigation Technology Satellite, or NTS-3, spacecraft is shown in an anechoic test chamber prior to electromagnetic interference or electromagnetic compatibility testing in Palm Bay, Fla. This experimental satellite is being designed, Read More

New Mexico Tech Highlights Research At Roundhouse

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Dr. Nelia Dunbar, state geologist and director of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, left, and Todd Leahy, deputy secretary of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, right, pose with Dennis McQuillan of Santa Fe, Earth Science Achievement Award recipient. McQuillan received the award during a ceremony Jan. 23, 2023, at the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe. Courtesy/NMT

Students and staff from the Chemical Engineering Department staff a table at New Mexico Tech’s Day at the Legislature Jan. 23, 2023. From left, Samantha Lindholm, Read More

State Awards Science & Technology Startup Grants To 10 Innovative Businesses

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MNT Smart Solutions. Courtesy/EDD

EDD News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), through its Office of Science and Technology (OST), has awarded business startup grants to 10 innovative companies to support research and jumpstart commercialization of products that will create more New Mexico jobs, Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today.

The FY2023 grants from $25,000 to $100,000 were awarded through two initiatives, the New Mexico Small Business Innovation Research (NM SBIR) matching grants and the Science & Technology Business Startup Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Natural History & Science Expands Its Educational & Space Science Programming Through $300,000 Grant From Meta

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An exterior shot of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Courtesy of NMMNHS/Tira Howard

NMMNHS News:

ALBUQUERQUE — A new, five-year partnership between the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) and Meta will substantially expand the Museum’s educational footprint in Valencia County and also support the Museum’s Space Science programming.  

Meta is donating $300,000 to the NMMNH Foundation, which will support five years of educational classroom visits for every 5th grade classroom in Valencia County and annual sponsored attendance for Valencia Read More

Dennis McQuillan To Receive 2023 Earth Science Achievement Award At Roundhouse Jan. 23

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Dennis McQuillan

NMT News:

SOCORRO — A public servant who advanced the role of earth science in public policy will be recognized at the New Mexico State Capitol Jan. 23.  The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, in cooperation with the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, will present the Earth Science Achievement Award for 2023 to Dennis McQuillan during a noon ceremony in the Roundhouse Rotunda in conjunction with Earth Science/New Mexico Tech Day.

New Mexico Tech (NMT) academic and research divisions and earth science-focused state, federal and private Read More

Magma Chamber Growing Under Mediterranean Volcano

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Submarine volcanic activity along a section of the Kolumbo crater on the seafloor, observed with SANTORY monitoring equipment. This work was supported by the Institute for Exploration (IFE-USA) and the collaborative project ‘New Frontiers in the Ocean Exploration’. Courtesy/SANTORY

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Using a novel imaging technique for volcanoes that produces high-resolution pictures of seismic wave properties, a new study reveals a large, previously undetected body of mobile magma underneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano near Santorini, Greece.

The presence Read More