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Sandian honored by American Indian organization

November 24, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandra Begay-Campbell, a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a member of the Navajo Nation, was selected for the prestigious Ely S. Parker Award by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at an honors banquet Oct. 31 in Portland, Ore. Begay-Campbell, who has worked at Sandia for...
Sandia engineer Sandra Begay Campbell received the Ely S. Parker award

Why huge bands of iron formed billions of years ago on Earth’s surface

November 19, 2009 • Ironing out a longstanding geological puzzle ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — No one knows why massive formations of banded iron — some ultimately hundreds of kilometers long, like a sleeping giant’s suspenders — mysteriously began precipitating on Earth’s surface about 3.5 billion years ago. Or why, almost 2 billion years later, the...
Yifeng Wang holds a piece of banded iron during a visit to an aquarium. Wang and colleagues have proposed an explanation -- published recently in Nature Geoscience -- for the precipitation of banded iron deposits in the planets oceans billions of years ago.

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

November 2, 2009 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre site is located in Technical Area 3 in the west-central part of Kirtland Air Force Base. The protective cover consists...
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Turning algae into energy

October 7, 2009 • Project converts dairy wastes to energy, other products ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As part of a project to create alternative sources of energy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are cultivating green algae that holds promise as a new supply of biofuel. “People have been growing algae for centuries for food supplements...

Sandia engineer Cliff Ho wins Discover magazine’s ‘The Future of Energy in 2 Minutes or Less’ contest

December 17, 2008 • Nathaniel Greene, director of Renewable Energy Policy at NRDC and judge for Discover’s contest says on Discover’s website that “I love [Cliff’s] concrete and clear presentation. I thought it did a good job of laying out the different ways we can use solar energy.”

Sandia hosts NASA test at Solar Tower Sept. 6

August 28, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center’s Space Propulsion Technology Project is scheduled to conduct tests at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility Wednesday, Sept. 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. MDT. A new advanced thermal...
Artist concept of a spacecraft using aerocapture to enter an orbit around Mars.

Sandia hosts water forum

August 9, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is hosting a free public water forum Monday, Aug. 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Conference Center, North Building, Room C.
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