The great film Mysteries of the Unseen World will be playing 2-2:45 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 26-27 in the planetarium at the Nature Center. For more information, click here. Courtesy/PEEC
LANL News:
On Tuesday, March 22—World Water Day—the Administration will host a White House Water Summit to raise awareness of the national importance of water and to highlight new commitments and announcements that the Administration and non-Federal institutions are making to build a sustainable water future.
A project from Los Alamos National Laboratory will be among the research areas featured.
Safe, sufficient, and reliable water resources are essential to the functioning of every aspect and sector of U.S. society, including agricultural and energy production, industry and economic Read More
The Los Alamos Bathtub Row Brewing Team picks up their race bibs early this morning before heading out to compete in the annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range. The team of Katie Bahran, Rian Bahran, Kendra Van Buren, Tim White and Jesson Hutchinson are competing in the co-ed category. The Bataan Memorial Death March is a challenging march through the high desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range, conducted in honor of the heroic service members who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II, sacrificing their freedom, health and, in many cases, Read More
HISTORICAL MUSEUM News:
Los Alamos Historical Museum staff is busy making final preparations for a March 24 trip to Japan to increase cultural understanding between the communities of Los Alamos, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“Museums are in a unique position to facilitate discussion of difficult subject matter in non-threatening ways,” said Los Alamos Historical Museum Director Judith Stauber. While New Mexico and Japan share a history connected by world-changing events, on a societal level, cultural controversy still exists. Museum-to-museum relationship building can help overcome Read More
WIPP News:
Participants at the Waste Management Symposium in Phoenix learned last week about the progress that has been made to recover the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and what steps remain to restart WIPP, the nation’s only deep-geologic repository for defense transuranic waste later this year.
As part of the update, WIPP’s leadership team showed a short video that provides key elements of the recovery progress and restart activities. View the video here.
DNFSB Hosts Public Hearing on LANL TRU Waste Management
March 22, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Read More
LANL scientist Cathy Wilson measuring how soil properties change with depth at the DOE Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment, NGEE-Arctic, field site near Barrow, Alaska. Courtesy/LANL
Ice wedge polygons impound snowmelt runoff at the DOE Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment field site near Barrow, Alaska. Thousands of square miles in the Arctic are covered by an interconnected network of ponds in polygon-shaped formations. Recent research reveals rapid and widespread degradation and melting. Courtesy/LANL
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Dr. Andrew Lustig assisting arriving refugees in Lesvos, Greece. Courtesy photo
Orphans at Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos Orphanage, Rancho Santa Fe in Honduras. Courtesy/Cheryl Wampler
The community gathers for Mass. Courtesy/Cheryl Wampler
COMMUNITY News:
The community is invited to a Lenten Fish Fry, 5-7 p.m. March 18, in the Parish Hall of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Los Alamos.
The event is a fundraiser for the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos Orphanage, Rancho Santa Fe in Honduras. All proceeds from the event go to the orphanage.
In October 2014, the Rancho accepted 84 additional children, which further stretched its resources. Donations will be gratefully Read More
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