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Los Alamos Historical Society Commemorates 20th Anniversary Of Cerro Grande Fire

A photograph taken during the Cerro Grande Fire in 2000. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archives

Editor’s note: Read detailed accounts of the 20th anniversary of the Cerro Grande Fire in the Thursday print edition of the Los Alamos Daily Post.

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Los Alamos is no stranger to crisis. The town was established during a period of huge crisis, World War II, and times of struggle have appeared throughout its history.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of one of these critical milestones – the Cerro Grande Fire.

May 4, 2000 was when Read More

Former NPS Employees Outline Core Requirements For Safely Reopening America’s National Parks

CPANP News:

Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Says Parks Absolutely Should Not Reopen Until the Safety of NPS Employees, Volunteers, Visitors and Local Community Members Can Be Ensured

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a recent Earth Day ceremony, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will “open up national parks and public lands”, and Interior Secretary Bernhardt continues to tout the reopening of some national parks.

In reaction to these announcements, the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks (CPANP), a group representing  1,800 current, former Read More

LANL And Texas A&M University System NLO Partner To Make Large Data Sets Easier To Handle

The LANL and NLO collaboration focuses on exploiting potential upcoming key-value flash devices to enable much more rapid analysis and insights of large data sets. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office (NLO) and Los Alamos National Laboratory have formed a collaborative research effort to make extremely large data sets indexable and more easily searchable.

“We are excited to be partnering with our colleagues at Texas A&M on this important and potentially game changing research. This collaboration leverages extreme strengths Read More

Chart 50: COVID-19 In New Mexico May 3

Statewide counts. Shown are the cumulative numbers of tests, diagnoses and deaths in New Mexico. Created by Eli Ben-Naim

Diagnoses by city in Northern New Mexico (excluding the city of Santa Fe). Cities with no reported cases are not displayed. Northern New Mexico is defined here as the aggregate of the following counties: Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Taos. Created by Eli Ben-Naim

Diagnoses in the city of Santa Fe by zip code. Created by Eli Ben-Naim Read More