SFI Seminar: Poetry Reading By Tom Crawford
Tom Crawford
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Insitute is hosting a poetry reading by poet Tom Crawford at 12:15 p.m., Monday in its Collins Conference Room at 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Tom Crawford is a teacher and poet whose work explores the natural world and our complex connection to it. Born in Michigan and educated in California, he’s lived much of his life in the Northwest. Years of teaching in China and South Korea have infused his work with a quality of Eastern sensibility. His poems are both contemplative and activist. They’re not just about beauty but how to save it. Caging the Robin, his latest Read More
DOE’s New Energy Efficiency Standards Will Help Americans Save Money, Reduce Carbon Pollution
DOE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In support of the President’s Climate Action Plan, the Energy Department has announced two new energy efficiency standards.
The new standards for general service fluorescent lamps (GSFLs) and automatic commercial ice makers (ACIMs) are the ninth and tenth standards to be finalized in 2014. Altogether, the 10 standards finalized this year will help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 435 million metric tons and save American families and businesses $78 billion in electricity bills through 2030.
“As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Read More
LANL Performance Takes Hit From WIPP Incident Despite Exceeding Expectations In Many Areas
LANL Director Charlie McMillan
LANL News:
Despite high praise for the majority of the work performed by Los Alamos National Laboratory meeting or exceeding expectations, the Laboratory is taking a significant funding hit for Fiscal Year 2014.
LANL Director Charlie McMillan sent a memo to employees Monday informing them that the Laboratory received a rating of “unsatisfactory” in operations and infrastructure from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) annual performance review. The low rating is primarily due to the breached drum incident in February at the Waste Read More
Robot Explores Under-Ice Habitats In The Arctic
Nereid Under Ice vehicle being deployed from the Polarstern during summer 2014. Photo by Chris German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
EOS News:
- The Nereid Under Ice vehicle is helping scientists to explore regions under Arctic sea ice and the biological phenomena that are present there.
A new underwater vehicle has successfully demonstrated that it can explore physical and biological phenomena in undisturbed areas beneath sea ice. It has also shown that a thriving biological realm of algae and other creatures exists
Former Employee Files Suit Against LANS, Co-workers
By CAROL A. CLARKA former Los Alamos National Laboratory employee filed suit Dec. 11 in First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe against Los Alamos National Security, LLC and three co-workers.
Suzanne D. Coyne issued the complaint against LANS and three co-workers including Nicholas Degidio, Gail McGuire and Jackie Little. Coyne’s husband Robert J. Coyne Sr., joined her in the court action filed through their attorney, Paul W. Grace, Esq.
Grace spoke with the Los Alamos Daily Post and said that the complaint he filed on behalf of his clients is grounded on the wrongful
Big Win: Manhattan Project National Historical Park Established!
Courtesy/NTHP
Big news on the National Treasure front — the Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act was passed in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 on Friday, December 12, 2014.
With this action, Congress has authorized the establishment of a new National Park commemorating the history of the Manhattan Project. Comprised of the three laboratories whose work was dedicated to accomplishing the Manhattan Project’s mission, the new national Read More
Udall, Heinrich Announce $324 Million For WIPP
U.S. SENATE News:
Legislation signed by president includes $104 million more than administration’s budget request
