White House To Host Water Summit … Los Alamos Watershed Research Among Featured Projects
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
Los Alamos National Laboratory And Seagate Heat Up Data Archiving For Supercomputers
LANL News:
- Better alternative to “cold storage” promises to keep data accessible to improve research
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) are researching a new storage tier to enable massive data archiving for supercomputing.
The joint effort is aimed at determining innovative new ways to keep massive amounts of stored data available for rapid access, while also minimizing power consumption and improving the quality of data-driven research.
Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, Seagate and Los Alamos Read More
UWNNM Raises Grant Funding To $620,000 Thanks To Generosity Of Contributors
UWNNM Executive Director Kristy Ortega, left, with nonprofit organization representatives at Tuesday’s annual grant meeting in the conference room at Los Alamos National Bank. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
From left, Los Alamos Family Council Program Director Cheryl Pongratz, RE/MAX owner Chris Ortega, UWNNM Board President Steve Boerigter and UWNNM Executive Director Kristy Ortega at the Business After Hours event at RE/MAX. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
From left, LACDC Marketing Manager Ryn Herrmann, MainStreet Executive Director Suzette Fox and Read More
Los Alamos – Japan Initiative 2016
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
Video Details Accomplishments, Path Forward For WIPP
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
NMED Secretary To Discuss Revisions And Seek Input To LANL Consent Order
NNMCAB News:LANL: Small Businesses Win Technical Support To Develop Clean Energy Technologies
LANL News:
- DOE’s Small Business Vouchers Pilot Provides Funds to Catalyze Innovation
Four small businesses will be working with Los Alamos National Laboratory to accelerate the nation’s transformation toward a clean energy economy as part of the Department of Energy’s Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot project.
These businesses will gain access to world-class laboratory resources to help move innovative ideas and technologies closer to the marketplace.
“Small businesses can be real catalysts for innovation and job creation,” said Melissa Fox, program director for Applied Energy Read More
