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Detecting tunnels using seismic waves not as simple as it sounds

December 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You’d think it would be easy to use seismic waves to find tunnels dug by smugglers of drugs, weapons or people.You’d be wrong.Nedra Bonal of Sandia’s geophysics and atmospheric sciences organization is nearing the end of a two-year study, “Impro…

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Border Patrol, Geoscience, national laboratories, research, Sandia, security, tunnels

Sandia Labs helps wounded veterans onto the career track

December 4, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Combat veterans often return with wounds, some visible, some not. Sandia National Laboratories has launched a hiring program with the goal of helping those wounded warriors get into the workforce and develop career-based skills and experience. “We want to give back to those who have given so...

Categories: Community / Education, Military / Defense

Topics: careers, community, education, hiring, military, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, veterans, warfighter, warriors, wounded, Wounded Warrior

Sandia physicist wins two national awards

November 29, 2012 • Albuquerque, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories senior manager Mark Herrmann has garnered two national awards for his work in high-energy-density science. In September, the American Physical Society elected him a Fellow, an honor limited to 0.5 percent of the society’s membership in any given year. The citation, formally presented at...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Physical Society, fusion, inertial fusion, national laboratories, Sandia, z machine

Sandia helps DOE bring large-scale solar systems to market

November 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is advancing viable, low-carbon power through collaborating on five U.S. Regional Test Centers (RTCs) where industry can assess the performance, reliability and bankability of large-scale photovoltaic energy systems. “With the trend in the solar industry toward larger systems and greater capital investment – substantial...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, power, PV, renewable, research, Sandia, solar, testing

Modern-day cleanroom invented by Sandia physicist still used 50 years later

November 26, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists didn’t believe it at first. But within a few short years, $50 billion worth of laminar-flow cleanrooms were being built worldwide and the invention is used in hospitals, laboratories and manufacturing plants today. The...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: clean room, cleanroom, engineering, inventor, MESA, national laboratories, Sandia, Whitfield

Primary Standards Laboratory: Sandia’s the word for precision measurements, calibrations

November 15, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You probably never gave roundness a thought.But when it’s crucial that something be really round, federal labs and agencies can turn to the Department of Energy’s Primary Standards Laboratory (PSL), operated by Sandia. The PSL is often the last word…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: DOE, nano, national laboratories, Primary Standards Laboratory, Sandia

Solar test facility upgrades complete, lead to better capabilities at Sandia for power industry

November 13, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="The Molten Salt Test Loop is the only test facility in the country that can provide real power plant conditions and collect data about the interactions of pressure, temperature and flow rates. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Cl…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, concentrating solar power, Department of Energy, DOE, molten salt, national laboratories, NSTTF, Sandia, solar

Northrop Grumman, GE partnerships tap wide range of Sandia Labs expertise

November 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has signed a pair of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that could broadly add to the Labs’ research into combustion, defense, energy and nuclear security. The umbrella CRADAs, which enable Sandia and its partners to pursue multiple projects in a variety of categories,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, combustion, CRADA, defense, economic development, energy, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear, partnership, research, Sandia, security, tech transfer, technology

Four technology transfer awards go to Sandia Labs

October 22, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories has won four awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Sandia’s efforts to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regional awards recognized Sandia’s technology transfer work with crystalline silico-titanates (CSTs), biomimetic membranes, the i-Gate Innovation Hub and DAKOTA software. “It...

Categories: Awards, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Nanotechnology, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, business, chemistry, computer, computing, economic development, economic impact, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, research, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

National Hispanic engineering organization names Sandia manager Engineer of the Year

October 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A radar systems manager at Sandia National Laboratories who is committed to encouraging youths to pursue science and technology careers has been named 2012 Engineer of the Year by the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Steve Castillo, manager of Sandia’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems...

Categories: Awards, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget

Topics: HENAAC, Hispanic, national laboratories, Sandia

Sandia shows monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance

September 10, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia’s Susan Stevens-Adams wears a cap dotted with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors that are injected with gel to make sure they have good contact. EEGs are used as part of a study into memory and memory traini…

Categories: Biology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: brain, cognitive, memory research, national laboratories, Sandia, women in STEM

First Sandia tech showcase shines a light on research, business

September 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology will be on display next week at a daylong event. Tips on intellectual property issues and on how to do business with the Labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs also will be featured at the first...

Categories: Operations / Budget, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, cybersecurity, energy, nanomaterials, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, showcase, small business, tech transfer, technology, water

Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue, spending

August 28, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $1.89 billion in economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $73 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $10.4 million for the city of Albuquerque, according to a...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, community, economic development, economic impact, jobs, national laboratories, national labs, research parks, Sandia, small business, tech transfer

Sandia explosives legend Paul Cooper hangs up his teaching hat

August 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Paul Cooper, one of the world’s foremost explosives experts, retired from Sandia National Laboratories more than a decade ago but continued his labor of love, teaching a new generation of engineers everything they needed to know about blowing things up. Cooper taught explosives safety and technology to...

Categories: Homeland security, Materials Science, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: branch davidians, education, engineers, expert, explosives, materials science, national laboratories, oklahoma city, Sandia, training, twa 800, uss iowa

Sandia experts, students explore cyber issues during weeklong summer institute

August 24, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Top graduate students pursuing careers in cybersecurity worked alongside Sandia and other prominent cybersecurity experts in a weeklong summer institute sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories at the Livermore Valley Open Campus.Cyber Security Technolo…

Categories: Community / Education, Computing, Conferences / Symposia

Topics: cybersecurity, national laboratories, Sandia

Sandia Science & Technology Park to host news conference on economic impact results

August 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) will host a news conference Tuesday to announce the results of an economic impact report by the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG). The findings will be reported by the city of Albuquerque, represented by Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry, and Bernalillo...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, economic impact, national laboratories, research parks, Sandia

Alaskan North Slope climate: hard data from a hard place

August 13, 2012 • Researchers examine clouds (from both sides now) and the structure of the atmosphere BARROW, Alaska — Sandia National Laboratories’ researcher Mark Ivey and I (science writer Neal Singer) are standing on the tundra at an outpost of science at the northernmost point of the North American continent. We are five miles northeast...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: arctic, climate change, clouds, national laboratories, Sandia, weather balloon

Sandia Labs names new VP of Business Operations/CFO

August 7, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bonnie Apodaca is the new vice president of Business Operations and chief financial officer at Sandia National Laboratories. “I am confident that her contributions will move Sandia forward, improve our business efficiencies and ensure continued excellence in mission support,” said Kim Sawyer, Sandia’s deputy laboratories director and...

Categories: Operations / Budget

Topics: appointment, business, cfo, executive, national laboratories, national labs, Sandia, vp

Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting

August 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers have reprised in the journal Energy Policy their groundbreaking finding that improvements in lighting — from candles to gas lamps to electric bulbs — historically have led to increased light consumption rather than lower overall energy use by society. In an article in the journal...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: economy, energy, laser diode, LED, light, national laboratories, productivity, Sandia

Sandia researcher Jeff Tsao examines the set-up used to test diode lasers as an alternative to LED lighting. Skeptics felt laser light would be too harsh to be acceptable. Research by Tsao and colleagues suggests the skeptics were wrong.

Fiery research: Sandia computers model rocket fuel fires

July 31, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Walt Gill of Sandia National Laboratories’ Fire & Aerosol Sciences Department calls it a pancake — a disk more than a foot in diameter covered with what looks like the debris you’d scrape off a particularly messy barbecue grill. It’s actuall…

Categories: Chemistry, Computing

Topics: chemistry, computing, NASA, national laboratories, propellant fires, Sandia

Predictions by climate models are flawed, says invited speaker at Sandia

July 25, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, a global warming skeptic, told about 70 Sandia researchers in June that too much is being made of climate change by researchers seeking government funding. He said their data and their methods did not support their claims. “Despite concerns over...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Military / Defense, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: climate, global warming, national laboratories, Sandia

National workshop brings career development help to Sandia postdocs, student interns

July 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Chemical Society’s ACS on Campus is bringing career development workshops for scientists and engineers to Sandia National Laboratories’ postdoctoral fellows and interns, only the second time the program has come to a national laboratory…

Categories: Chemistry, Conferences / Symposia, Media advisories, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: American Chemical Society, chemistry, national laboratories, Sandia, Science Cafe, science workshops

Labs small-business assistance program named Manufacturing Advocate of the Year

July 13, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program has received the 2012 Manufacturing Advocate of the Year award from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The MEP award recognized the program’s “commitment to the business growth and transformation of U.S.-based manufacturing through...

Categories: Awards, Operations / Budget, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: awards, collaboration, national laboratories, national labs, partnerships, Sandia, small business, tech transfer, technology

Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun

July 3, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When Alex Maish was a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the early 1980s, he had a pet project, a low-cost, high-precision way to continuously move solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy. By the early 1990s the technology was ready...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: business, energy, national laboratories, national labs, power, renewable, research, Sandia, small business, solar, tech transfer, technology, tracking

Sandia engineer named DOE Energy Pioneer

July 2, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy named Chris Evans an Energy Pioneer for his work in identifying and implementing energy conservation practices at Sandia National Laboratories. The award recognizes people who go above and beyond their jobs in energy management for the federal government. Evans has been involved...

Categories: Awards, Energy / Environment / Water, Operations / Budget, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, conservation, energy, energy savings, national laboratories, national labs, power, Sandia

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