WIPP UPDATE: Internet Rumors About Safety Concerns Are Inaccurate
WIPP News:
An Internet rumor has been fueling concerns about the need to be prepared to evacuate southeastern New Mexico because of recent events at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
There is absolutely no basis for these rumors. Monitoring conducted by Nuclear Waste Partnership of air, soil, water and vegetation are showing no radiation releases that would approach levels causing health concerns. Independent monitoring by the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center has reached similar conclusions. (View CEMRC’s monitoring data at CEMRC.org.)
In a recent letter to New Read More
New Airborne GPS Technology For Weather Conditions Takes Flight
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego geophysicist Jennifer Haase is seated at the controls of GISMOS, a 205-pound GPS atmospheric measurement system, testing the equipment prior to flights during a 2010 campaign. The equipment is installed in the cabin of a reconfigured Gulfstream V business jet. Courtesy/Scripps Institution of Oceanography
AGU News:
LA JOLLA – GPS technology has broadly advanced science and society’s ability to pinpoint locations and motion, from driving directions to tracking ground motions during earthquakes. A new technique stands to improve weather
SFI Colloquium: ‘Informational Principles in the Perception-Action Loop’
Daniel Polani. Courtesy/SFI
SFI News:
Santa Fe Institute Colloquium • Tuesday, March 18 • 3:30 p.m. • Noyce Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe
Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, presents “Informational Principles in the Perception-Action Loop.”
Abstract. Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety (1956) and, in last years, especially its later rediscovery and extension by Touchette and Lloyd (2000, 2004) have indicated that Shannon information acts as fundamental “currency” constraining the potential organization and “administration” Read More
Public Invited to Tour New Mexico Consortium Biolab
N.M. Consortium Biolab. Courtesy/NMC
LACC News:
The public is invited to tour the New Mexico Consortium Biolab at a Los Alamos Chamber of FAN Club event 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19.
The Biolab is at 100 Entrada Dr. in Los Alamos.
The Consortium is involved in many different areas of research and the staff will speak about them during the tour. Read More
Los Alamos Scientist Addresses Bioaerosol Risks and Detection
Kristin Omberg. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
A biological attack could spread through a population quickly and have a devastating effect. An early detection system would be key to reducing a population’s chance of exposure. The challenge is how to detect and identify an agent before people start getting sick.
“The 2001 anthrax letters contained only a few grams of material ─ about two sugar cubes’ worth. The federal government is concerned about attacks with hundreds of grams of material. So how do we protect ourselves against an attack with a whole bag of sugar the next time?” said Kristin Read More
New Ladder Truck ‘Pushed In’ At Fire Station No. 1
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Los Alamos County officials ‘pushed in’ a new ladder truck during a ceremony Monday at Fire Station No. 1 on West Jemez Road across from the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center and Otowi Building at LANL’s Technical Area 3. Los Alamos County Fire Department provides fire protection services to the Laboratory. Driver engineer Joseph Romero of the Los Alamos County Fire Department actually backed the ladder truck into the fire bay. The 2013 custom built Smeal ladder truck can pump up to 2,250 gallons Read More
2015 Budget Proposal Makes Critical Investments in All-Of-The-Above Energy Strategy and Nat’l. Security
DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz 
DOE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz detailed President Barack Obama’s $27.9 billion Fiscal Year 2015 budget request for the Energy Department. Secretary Moniz emphasized the President’s continued commitment to a low-carbon future, improved energy infrastructure resilience, U.S. science and technology leadership and stronger national security.
This budget request represents a 2.6 percent increase above the FY 2014 enacted level, reflecting the importance of the Department’s core focus areas:
- Energy and Science;
- Nuclear