During the May 23 meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, Rotarian James Wernicke walked members through his January 2022 adventures in Tanzania during which he and his father climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Located in northeastern Tanzania, near the Kenya border, Mt. Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano, the highest mountain on the African continent. Together father and son summited Mt. Kilimanjaro’s highest peak, Uhuru, at 19,371 ft. Sporting a Tanzania shirt, Wernicke described the week-long climb and the challenges and exhilaration of trekking through five habitat zones along the Machame Read More
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Rotarian Kurt Schoenberg Invites Markus Roth of Technische Universität Darmstadt To Tuesday’s Rotary Club Meeting
Los Alamos Rotarian Kurt Schoenberg, left, physicist and professor, invited fellow Rotarian Markus Roth of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany to the Rotary Club meeting Tuesday, May 23 at Cottonwood on the Greens. Schoenberg and Roth, friends and researchers, work together in Germany, and it was Roth who encouraged Schoenberg to join the local Rotary Club. Roth visits the Los Alamos meetings as often as his international schedule allows. He and Schoenberg are currently attending the annual International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) in Santa Fe. Photo by Linda Hull Read More
Cornell Lab Of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID App Achieves Worldwide Coverage
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology News:
Ithaca, NY—The free Merlin Bird ID app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology just hit a major milestone. This digital field guide and ID assistant can now help users identify birds in any country—a grand total of 10,315 species. Merlin provides detailed descriptions, photos, and sounds of each bird, and innovative features to help users identify what they saw.
“The original idea for Merlin was all about helping you figure out ‘What’s that bird I’m seeing’ in a quick and simple way,” Read More
LANL: Did Rising Seas Play Role In Viking Abandonment Of Greenland Settlements?
Science: Did rising seas play a role in Viking abandonment of Greenland settlements?
Stansbury, Padilla Lead Lawmakers In Bicameral Resolution To Join United Nations Convention On Biological Diversity
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury
From the Office of U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity and more than one million species are threatened with extinction, U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (Calif.) led a group of 12 Members of Congress in introducing a concurrent resolution expressing the need for the U.S. Congress to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity.
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is the international legal instrument that encourages actions Read More
DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa & Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating Within United States
Administrator Milgram
DEA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has announced the results of a year-long national operation, “Operation Last Mile,” targeting operatives, associates, and distributors affiliated with the Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels responsible for the last mile of fentanyl and methamphetamine distribution on local streets and social media.
DEA’s top operational priority is to defeat the Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels—the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the fentanyl and methamphetamine that is
Daily Postcard: Rare-Bird Alert – Bobolink At Los Alamos Stables
Daily Postcard: A Bobolink made a rare appearance on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at the North Mesa Horse Stables in Los Alamos. Photo by Jonathon Dowell
By JONATHAN DOWELL
Los Alamos
Amazing and wonderful, a Bobolink appeared at the stables on North Mesa all day Saturday. Usually found only in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways during spring migration, it is rare to see a Bobolink farther west than east Texas this time of year.
Auspiciously, the Bobolink appeared in Los Alamos on Global Big Day, an annual event organized by Cornell University to document bird populations and distributions in a Read More
Kiwanis Club Of Los Alamos Hosts Talk On Asylum Seekers
Cathy Schaller speaking recently to members of the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos about asylum seekers crossing the southern border. Photo by Brooke Davis/Kiwanis
By CHARMIAN O. SCHALLER
Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos
As the number of asylum seekers along the southern border of the United States continues to grow, many people already living in the U.S. have two questions in their minds.
First, why are these asylum seekers so eager to get into the United States instead of staying in their own countries and fighting for improvement? And second, why should U.S. citizens respond positively to requests to Read More
LAHS Interact Club Bake Sale Monday Outside Duane Smith Auditorium To Benefit Earthquake Victims In Syria/Türkiye
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COMMUNITY News:
The Los Alamos High School Interact Club, a youth service organization sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, will host a bake sale 2:35-3:10 p.m. Monday, May 8 in front of Duane Smith Auditorium.
Interact is dedicated to helping local and global communities.
All funds raised from Monday’s bake sale will go to help those negatively affected by the earthquakes last month in Syria/Türkiye. Read More
TOTH Holds Sneaker Fundraiser For House Of Hope
A scene from a previous house build by House of Hope in Juarez, Mexico. Courtesy/TOTH
A scene from a previous house build by House of Hope in Juarez, Mexico. Courtesy/TOTH
TOTH News:
Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church is holding an athletic shoe drive fundraiser during the entire month of May to raise money for House of Hope – a House Build Project in Juarez, Mexico.
Proceeds will be put toward the cost of building a simple home for a family in need. The community is invited to participate by bringing any old pairs of tennis shoes to the lower lot at Trinity on the Hill and dropping them in the clearly Read More