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Earth Day Feature: Beaming Solar Power From Satellite Array

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The image depicts AFRL’s Space Solar Power Incremental and Demonstrations Research Project beaming solar power from space to earth. SSPIDR consists of several small-scale flight experiments that will mature technology needed to build a prototype solar power distribution system. Courtesy/AFRL

AFRL News:

KIRTLAND AFB – In honor of Earth Day, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is highlighting its efforts towards harnessing the Sun’s energy, converting it to Radio Frequency (RF) energy, and beaming it to the Earth—providing a green power source for U.S. and allied forces. 

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Celebrating Chinese Language Day April 20, 2021

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By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos 

Today, April 20, 2021, is UN Chinese Language Day.

Language is about thinking. What do you think about on this Chinese Language Day?

Probably, you would think about who invented paper when you jot down your thoughts during a busy working day.

Probably, you would think about where tea originated from when you go for a cup of tea during refreshment time.

Probably, you would think about why China, the country, shares the same name as the chinaware on the table when your family gets together for dinner.

On this day, I think about the lunisolar calendar GuYu谷雨.

China invented the Read More

Locals Participate In 32nd Bataan Memorial Death March

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Jeff Corwon, Frances Anchondo, David Pedersen, Joe Alley, Lance Anderson and Kevin Power head out on a 26.2 mile marathon over rough terrain starting in the foothills of Los Alamos April 9, commemorating the 32nd annual Bataan Memorial Death March. Courtesy photo

Jeff Corwon, Frances Anchondo, David Pedersen, Joe Alley, Lance Anderson and Kevin Power spend 13 hours April 9 hiking rough terrain commemorating the 32nd annual Bataan Memorial Death March. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

The 32nd annual Bataan Memorial Death March held virtually this year was completed with boots on the ground Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory And NVIDIA Announce Next Step In Partnership … Next-generation System Powered By Grace CPU Will Shape Future Of LANL’s Computing Strategy

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Los Alamos, NVIDIA and HPE are working together to prove that the next decade’s version of codesign with hardware tailoring will provide unprecedented human understanding far beyond what is possible with the current trajectory. Courtesy/LANL

Particle trajectories in the Southern Ocean near the tip of Africa, colored by the concentration of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon. Los Alamos scientists performed multi-decadal simulations of ocean circulation with the Energy Exascale Earth System Model with imbedded biogeochemistry (BGC), using a high-resolution mesh to focus on mesoscale (10km

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Rotary Club Of Los Alamos: Brittney Woodrum Talks About Her Adventures Raising Money For ‘ShelterBox’

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Brittney Woodrum climbed all 58 of Colorado’s Fourteeners to raise money for ShelterBox USA. Courtesy/Rotary

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

“I’d never hiked a Fourteener until last summer,” confessed Rotary Club guest speaker Brittney Woodrum as she spoke March 30 to members from her home in Leadville, Colo. (“Fourteener” is the name given to Colorado’s mountain peaks of 14,000 feet or higher.)

Why is her inexperience noteworthy? Because Woodrum went on to hike all of Colorado’s 58 Fourteeners in just 76 days in July, August and September 2020.

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LANL Team Develops Software Package Known As CICE To Model Changes In Sea Ice

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A CICE Consortium graphic of sea-ice physics illustrates complexity and breadth of variables at play. LANL image

LANL News:

The Polar Regions on Earth—the areas around the North and South Poles—have about 9 million square miles of sea ice floating in their oceans. Once inhabited by very few people, the Polar Regions are now home to more people than ever before; there are more than 4 million people living in the Arctic.

These regions are important to industries such as commercial shipping and fishing, mining, energy, recreation and tourism, scientific research, and even military bases and defense

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Rotary: Jennifer Turner Describes International Non-Profit

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Children at Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos Honduras. Courtesy/NPH USA

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

“We are a family for children without security,” said Jennifer Turner, development manager of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos USA, as she described recently to the Rotary Club the mission of the international non-profit organization. “Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos is Spanish for “Our Little Brothers and Sisters.”

Founded in 1954 by Father William B. Wasson, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) “enhances the lives of vulnerable children in Latin America and the Caribbean” Read More

LANL: Fighting The Next Outbreak Before It Starts

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By J. PATRICK FITCH and
KIRSTEN TAYLOR-MCCABE
Los Alamos National Laboratory

COVID-19 is not the first global pandemic and it certainly won’t be the last. As the light at the end of the tunnel of this pandemic is in sight, now is the time to take stock in what we’ve learned over the last 12 months—and prepare for the future.

Specifically, the last year has taught us that an effective response against a disease outbreak depends on timely integration of expertise and data across academia, industry, and government. As we move forward, we must continue to foster this integration and our capabilities Read More

Rotary Hosts Summer Lewis Talk On ‘Sustainable Peace’

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Summer Lewis

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

“What is necessary to create sustainable peace?” posed Summer Lewis when she spoke to the Rotary Club of Los Alamos March 16 from her home in Oaxaca, Mexico via Zoom. 

Lewis is the manager of Rotary International’s strategic partnership with the Institute for Economics and Peace.

As a Rotary International manager, Lewis provides “educational tools and resources to support Rotarians and Rotaractors in making peace tangible and actionable”. (Rotaractors are young people ages 18 and older, often college students, who develop Read More