LANL: New Software Could Help Transform Budding Bioplastics Industry
From left, Ghanshyam Pilania, Carl Iverson, Babetta Marone and Joseph Dumont of the BioManIAC project. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Single-use plastics, such as water bottles, grocery bags, food packaging and the like make up around 50 percent of the world’s estimated 380 million tons of global plastic waste each year.
While manufacturers are working to improve offerings in bioplastics, we are still decades away from truly competitive biodegradable solutions. High costs and time-consuming traditional research and development are required for new plastics.
But a new tool from Los Alamos Read More
Canyon Rim Trail Closed Intermittently Through April 1
COUNTY News:
Contractors for Qualcon Builders (Canyon Walk Apartments) will be placing rock along the southside of the Canyon Rim Trail between DP Road and the DP Canyon Bridge 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Friday April 1.
During this activity, the southside of the trail will be closed intermittently when the rock is being placed by a small piece of equipment. Contractor employees (flaggers) will be on site to direct trail users safely through the work area during these times.
Trail users are asked to use caution and follow the direction of the flaggers during this work.
Direct questions and Read More
Deer In Snow Lifting Spirits Around Los Alamos
Deer are lifting spirits in Los Alamos after early morning snowfall Wednesday on North Mesa. Photo by Bob Hull Read More
Taos To Host 2022 Outdoor Economics Conference Oct. 5-7
Courtesy/EDD
EDD News:
TAOS — The annual New Mexico Outdoor Economics Conference is coming to Taos this fall, event organizers announced Wednesday.
The in-person summit is scheduled for Oct. 5-7 at the Sagebrush Inn and Conference Center.
The Outdoor Economics Conference was created by non-profit Outdoor New Mexico and co-sponsored by the Outdoor Recreation Division of the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD).
This year’s event will feature leaders in government and outdoor industry, panel discussions, an outdoor gear expo, an outdoor-industry company Pitchfest, evening Read More
Daily Postcard: Seurat-like Snow Falls Over Tall Pine Tree
Daily Postcard: Large and heavy snowflakes cover a pine tree in a way that resembles French artist Georges Seurat’s spotted paintings Wednesday over White Rock. Neo-Impressionists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac pioneered a painting technique, dubbed Pointillism, that was revolutionary for its time. Bored of traditional paintings, artists of the era searched for new ways to make ‘impressions’ of landscapes and day-to-day life. Seurat and Signac looked to science for inspiration and discovered how to trick the eye into seeing more in a painting than the sum of its parts: an arrangement of Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: March 23, 2022
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The 2021-2022 fishing season will end March 31. Anglers will need to purchase a new license for the 2022-2023 fishing season online or at license vendors.
The new Rules and Regulations for the 2022-2023 season can now be viewed online or picked up at State Game and Fish Department offices and license vendors across the state.
These rules will go into effect April 1. The 2022-2023 fishing season will end March 31, 2023.
Very little ice fishing remains and most waters are open. Some lakes are still closed due to deteriorating ice conditions. Read More
Daily Postcard: View Of Rio Grande From Overlook
Daily Postcard: View of the Rio Grande Tuesday from Overlook in White Rock. Photo by Jen Moss Read More
Pajarito Mountain Ski Area: Season Passes On Sale Now!
Courtesy/Pajarito
PAJARITO News:
“We aspire to be in the mountains. We travel from valleys and deserts to reach these higher grounds. Some of life’s greatest moments have happened – and are still to come – on these slopes we call home.”
The views of the Valles Caldera, the unforgettable Fab 4, Pajarito’s fantastic events and music, the toasts on the deck and everything in between.
The mountains are calling and the 2022/2023 Power Pass is your passage to the upcoming season. Will you rise?
Courtesy/Pajarito Read More
Gessing: Time For New Mexico’s Democrats To Get Serious About Energy & Climate
By PAUL J. GESSING
President
Rio Grande Foundation
There are many things that make New Mexico unique, but one of the most noteworthy political nuances is the State’s deep and unusual relationship with energy.
New Mexico’s Democratic politicians love the money and jobs generated by the traditional energy industry, but also wish to be seen as pushing back against it to placate their environmentalist base.
Nonetheless, New Mexico, a state blessed with all sorts of energy resources (both traditional as well as wind and solar) has continued to embrace Democrat politicians despite the Party’s Read More
Amateur Naturalist: How Smart Is A Bird Brain?
A Black Chinned Hummingbird. Photo by Bob Walker, PEEC Nature Center
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
Spring is approaching and birds will be migrating in a month.
This migration is not random flying but involves two considerations:
- Time; and
- Direction of a flight.
The first consideration is presented in Chart 1 (below). Black chinned hummingbirds arrive routinely in the first week of April and are gone by the end of October.
The second consideration relates to the the direction of migration. Hummingbirds know which way to fly as well as when to fly. They fly southward for the winter to Mexico Read More
Los Alamos-based UbiQD And Heliene Initiate Joint Development Of Agrivoltaic Modules For Greenhouses
UbiQD R&D Engineer inspects a quantum dot glass prototype under UV. Courtesy/ UbiQD, Inc.
UbiQD News:
The development will combine UbiGro® light optimizing technology to maximize crop yields with solar power generation for greenhouses.
UbiQD, Inc., a deep tech company specializing in nanomaterials innovation, and Canada-based Heliene Inc., a customer-first provider of North American made solar modules, today announced the initiation of a joint development agreement to embed UbiGro® sunlight optimizing technology in Heliene’s photovoltaic modules.
“As energy costs continue Read More
Environmental Protection Division Director Ely To Retire
EPD Director Sandra Ely
NMED News:
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) announces that Environmental Protection Division (EPD) Director Sandra Ely will retire at the end of March after three years leading the division.
Over the course of her 24-year career, Director Ely has been instrumental in initiatives that have and will continue to positively impact the environment and public health in New Mexico.
Director Ely has a long history with NMED. She started in the Occupational, Health, and Safety Bureau in 1994 as an industrial hygienist, moved up to Program Manager before Read More
Kiwanians Thankful For Aluminum Collection Success
Kiwanians stand in front of an impressive pile of aluminum cans collected March 19 near Sullivan Field. Courtesy/Kiwanis
KIWANIS News:
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos would like to thank the community for making its March 19 aluminum collection a great success!
Kiwanis collected more than 1,100 pounds of aluminum – a near record (and an impressive pile).
With the help of Key Club members and Kiwanis Lieutenant Governor Ana Murphy, the Club was able to both pay people who contributed aluminum cans and receive money from them that will go back to the community through Kiwanis service projects.
Thanks Read More
Daily Postcard: Worm Moon Shines Over White Rock
Daily Postcard: The final full moon of the winter season rose Thursday and Friday night. The Worm Moon reached peak illumination at 3:20 a.m. EDT Friday. The Worm Moon is captured here through tree branches 6 a.m. Saturday in White Rock. For many years, it was thought the name referred to the earthworms that appear as the soil warms in spring. This invites robins and other birds to feed. However, more research revealed another explanation. In the 1760s, Captain Jonathan Carver visited the Naudowessie` (Dakota) and other Native American tribes and wrote that the name Worm Moon refers to a different Read More
New Mexico, Western Inter-States Hydrogen Hub Responds To U.S. Department Of Energy Request For Information
Secretary James Kenney of New Mexico Environment Department
STATE News:
SANTA FE — The Western Inter-States Hydrogen Hub Memorandum of Understanding States and the “Collaboratory” submitted a joint response Friday to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Request for Information (RFI) on the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Implementation Strategy.
The response can be found here.
The submission was a collective effort between the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, led by the “Collaboratory”. The Collaboratory was formally chartered in 2007 as the Colorado Energy Research Read More
Daily Postcard: Closeup View Of Deer Munching Apple
Daily Postcard: A closeup view of a deer munches an apple Sunday in the yard of a residence on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Amanda Macdonald Read More
Posts From The Road: Bluebonnet Season In Texas
Roadside Blooms: Bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush cover the roadside in the Texas hill country west of Austin. Bluebonnets are seen around the state, but this area is a favorite to photograph. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Afternoon Light: The late afternoon light skims across the landscape with a warm glow of color. The blooms are always beautiful but time of day and other factors such as this old gate add another dimension in the framing of this field of flowers. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
You know its Spring when the bluebonnets Read More
SFNF Cancels Plans To Implement Las Dispensas Prescribed Burn On Pecos/Las Vegas District
SFNF News:
SANTA FE — Snow on the ground and forecasted weather have delayed the planned implementation of the previously announced Las Dispensas prescribed burn on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District this weekend.
Fire managers look at multiple factors, including resource availability, fuel moisture levels, air quality, ventilation, and forecasted weather and wind, before making the final go/no go decision on every prescribed burn.
They canceled the Las Dispensas burn because fuel moisture levels in the project area are above prescription parameters in the burn plan.
Fire updates, Read More
AFRL: Equipping Space Force Operators Through Innovation
Col. Stephen Landry, director of the Space Force Integration & Digital Transformation office, discusses the Space Force coders creation of innovative, cutting-edge software to enhance warfighter capabilities at the final day of the Delta Innovation Summit held in February at the NewSpace New Mexico’s Unite & Ignite Space LaunchPad, a co-innovation hub with AFRL, in Albuquerque, joining him are space operators Tech. Sgt. Robert Cameron and Capt. Scott Hubert. Courtesy/Allen Winston
Brig.-Gen. Kevin Whale, Deputy Commanding General of Transformation, Space Operations Read More
New Mexico Clean & Beautiful Grant Program Opens Applications For Waste Reduction & Beautification Projects
NMTD is accepting applications for the Clean and Beautiful Grant Program FY23 cycle now until April 15. Courtesy/NMTD
NMTD
- Program received record participation in previous fiscal year
SANTA FE — After the New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) supported a record 53 communities through the Clean and Beautiful Grant Program in FY22, the department is prepared to continue supporting waste reduction and beautification projects of New Mexico communities in FY23.
NMTD is officially accepting applications for the Clean and Beautiful Grant Program FY23 cycle now until April 15. All New Mexico Read More
