Environment

County: Frost And Golf Course Grass Don’t Mix

Scene of Los Alamos County Golf Course recently frosted over. Courtesy/LAC

The after effects of walking on grass that is covered in frost at the Golf Course. Courtesy.LAC

The after effects of driving a cart on grass that is covered in frost at the Golf Course. Courtesy.LAC

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Golf Course staff is informing the community of the importance of staying off frosted grass at the golf course.

Frost is nothing more than frozen dew that crystallizes on the grass. Being composed of 90 percent water, a grass blade freezes very easily, thereby making the normally pliable grass rigid Read More

LANL: Eight Los Alamos Projects Win R&D 100 Awards

LANL brought home eight R&D 100 awards this year, plus an additional four special-recognition awards. Scientist Ramesh Jha was among the winners, with the Smart Microbial Cell Technology project, an ultra-high-throughput screening platform to engineer custom biocatalysts. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies brought in eight R&D 100 Awards and Special Recognition Awards, including a Gold Award for Corporate Social Responsibility, Gold and Silver Awards for Market Disruptor – Services, and a Bronze Award for Green Technology, presented Read More

Santa Fe Institute Scientist Sidney Redner Awarded 2021 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize From American Physical Society

Sidney Redner

SFI News:

SFI Professor Sidney Redner has been awarded the 2021 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize “For leadership in transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries by applying and advancing deep concepts and methods of statistical physics to gain novel insights into diverse real-world phenomena.”

The annual prize from the American Physical Society is one of its highest honors in theoretical physics.

According to the APS website, the prize “recognizes a scientist or scientists whose work (theoretical, experimental, or computational) has opened new vistas for statistical and/or Read More

Daily Postcard: Flame Skimmer On Ancho Canyon Trail

Daily Postcard: A ‘Flame Skimmer’ (Libellula saturnata), the common name of this dragonfly is spotted Wednesday along the stream at the bottom of Ancho Canyon Trail. These dragonflies breed in the warm springs of Ancho Canyon and also Pajarito Springs at the bottom of the Red Dot Trail. During the summer they often fly out of the canyon and can be  seen in the backyards of White Rock. They will remain active and can still be seen in these canyons until the first hard freeze. Photo by Mark Bjorklund 
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WildEarth Guardians File Lawsuit Over Antiquated Federal Wildlife Killing Program In New Mexico

WEG News:

SANTA FE — WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Wildlife Services” over its outdated wildlife-killing program in New Mexico.

The program—formerly called “Animal Damage Control”—relies on scientific studies and data from the 1970s and 80s and has never prepared an Environmental Impact Statement for its activities in New Mexico.

Last year, Wildlife Services killed over 1.2 million native animals across the U.S. In New Mexico nearly 10,000 animals were killed in 2019, mostly native mammals and birds. Preferred methods include leghold traps, strangulation Read More

Virginia Creeper Growing On Barranca Mesa

This time of the year Mother Nature displays her fabulous beauty and an example is this Virginia Creeper growing in the backyard of a home on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan

Virginia Creeper growing in the backyard of a home on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan

Virginia Creeper growing in the backyard of a home on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan Read More

Top Students Tapped For Los Alamos Science Experience

 
National Security Sciences Building (NSSB) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL 
 
LANL News:
  • Graduate program from DOE prepares students for STEM careers

As part of a U.S. Department of Energy graduate-student program, 52 students from 43 different universities will be sponsored to conduct research at 12 national laboratories. Seven of them will come to Los Alamos National Laboratory for their research experience for between three and 12 months.

“These graduate student awards help prepare new scientists for STEM careers that are vitally important to the DOE mission and the Read More

NNSA Administrator Statement On 2020 Nobel Prize In Physics Recipient Dr. Andrea Ghez With Ties To LLNL

2020 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient Dr. Andrea Ghez of UCLA. Courtesy/@NobelPrize

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Administrator Lisa E Gordon-Hagerty of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Nuclear Security issued the following statement on the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, Dr. Andrea Ghez:

“Congratulations to Andrea Ghez, this year’s co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Now an esteemed professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, she has close ties with NNSA’s Lawrence Livermore Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Early Career Scientist Sumantra Sarkar Receives 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award

LANL early career scientist Sumantra Sarkar receives the 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award. Courtesy/LANL

LANL New:

Sumantra Sarkar, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist specializing in self-replicating materials, is the recipient of the 2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award from the American Physical Society.

“Self-replication is a biophysical process through which an object can create a near identical replica of itself,” Sarkar said. “Biological systems such as all animals and plants are master self-replicators. As I write, millions of cells in our bodies are copying themselves and producing Read More

Bureau Of Land Management Helium Sales Of $60 Million Transferred To U.S. Treasury For American Taxpayer

BLM News:

AMARILLO, Texas — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing that $60 million generated from the sale and auction of crude helium from the Federal Helium Reserve has been transferred to the U.S. Treasury.

The Federal Helium Reserve is a resource owned by the American people and managed by the BLM’s Amarillo Field Office.

“The BLM is proud to announce that the Federal Helium Program has returned more than $2 billion to the U.S. Treasury from the sale and auction of crude helium between 2005 and 2018,” Amarillo Field Manager Sam Burton said.

In addition, the BLM’s crude helium plant Read More

Daily Postcard: Waning Harvest Moon

Daily Postcard: The waning Harvest Moon is spotted through the branches of a colorful aspen tree Wednesday morning in the Jemez Mountains. Photo by Marc Bailey
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SFNF Offices Close For Columbus Day Holiday Monday, Oct. 12; Fire Danger Remains High

SFNF News:

SANTA FE — All Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) offices will be closed Monday, Oct. 12, in observance of Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Regular virtual business hours will resume Tuesday, Oct. 13.

As fall colors reach their peak, SFNF officials anticipate a large number of visitors over the holiday weekend.

If you plan to spend time on the forest, please recreate responsibly and follow state public health orders and Centers for Disease Control guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Although there are no fire restrictions on the SFNF, fire danger is unseasonably high Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: Oct. 6, 2020

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

Big game hunting seasons for firearms will be going on most of October, so expect to see lots of hunters in the forest.

Campgrounds and dispersed camping areas should have a lot of hunting camps. There will probably be lots of ATVs on Forest Service roads.

Most New Mexico State Parks opened for overnight camping Oct. 1 to New Mexico residents only. Reservations are required. El Vado Lake State Park, Pecos Canyon State Park, Morphy Lake State Park and Manzano Mountains State Park are still closed to overnight camping. Most state parks are now Read More

Trick-Or-Treat On MainStreet Canceled, But Los Alamos Halloweekend Will Still Haunt The Community Oct. 29-31

CHAMBER News:

Halloweekend returns to haunt Los Alamos Oct. 29-31 with a variety of family-friendly and COVID-safe activities in lieu of the popular Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet, which has been canceled this year due to state-issued mass gathering restrictions.

Some staple Halloweekend events are back for 2020, just in a new format. The community can partake in a virtual pumpkin carving party, hosted by the Los Alamos Arts Council, and the annual Scarecrow Contest — in line with this year’s Halloweekend theme of “Monsters Take Over MainStreet” — will see “movie monster” creations commandeer Read More

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