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Award-winning engineer helps keep US nuclear deterrent safe from radiation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Experts like engineer Alan Mar ensure components made for the US nuclear stockpile pass stringent standards to resist radiation and remain safe and reliable in extremely harsh environments. The 25-year Sandia National Laboratories employee received a Professional Achievement Award from the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers this year.

Meeting: SASE National Conference

Sandia establishes collaborative research facility for low-temperature plasmas

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

a collaborative facility to study plasmas that can range from hanging between the stars to lighting up the living room has been instituted at Sandia National Laboratories. The facility has laser systems that operate at a millionth of a billionth of a second, and cameras that shutter at trillionths of a second.

Funder: United States Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Science

Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow awarded prestigious Fleming Medal

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Michelle Thomsen, a Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow and guest scientist, was awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal by the American Geophysical Union today at a ceremony in San Francisco, Calif.

High-speed fire footage reveals key insights for power plant safety

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Fire protection and optical engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are using high-speed cameras and advanced algorithms, imaging and analytic methods to understand these high energy arcing faults between two conductors, such as the high-voltage bus bars in a switchgear at a power plant. Flames from experimental arc faults are filled with useful information that can help keep power plants operating safely.

Internships fuel research for engineering students from Puerto Rico

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

The Consortium for Integrating Energy Systems in Engineering and Science Education, CIESESE, internship program, sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration, connects engineering students from five Hispanic-serving institutions with research at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Energy Technology Laboratory. The program has recently been extended through next summer.

Should Santa deliver by drone?

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Santa has always run a one-sleigh operation, but a new analysis could help him speed deliveries and save energy, if he ever decided to add a drone to his route.

LANL news: Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Extreme drought's impact on plants will become more dominant under future climate change, as noted in a paper out today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A probabilistic artificial intelligence computer model developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory provided the most accurate state, national, and regional forecasts of the flu in 2018, beating 23 other teams in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FluSight Challenge. The CDC announced the results last week.

Hate to wait? Sandia looks to speed up climate research

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Kelsey DiPietro a Jill Hruby Fellowship to speed up climate research. The applied mathematician has proposed a way to make computer models more efficient -- improving accuracy without increasing time or resources to run them.

Seven Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2019 Laboratory Fellows

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Brian Albright, Patrick Chain, Dana Dattelbaum, Michael Hamada, Anna Hayes-Sterbenz, Michael Prime and Laura Smilowitz are being honored as 2019 Laboratory fellows.

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