Los Alamos National Laboratory
March
Researchers explore correlation between climate and wildfires in the Southwest
The authors show that the annual forest fire area is very strongly dictated by drought. - 4/12/15
Lab researchers develop models to analyze mixing in the ocean
Researchers created models to quantify the horizontal and vertical structure of mixing in the ocean and its dependence upon eddy velocities. - 3/10/15
Science Briefs - 2015
Fast Facts
Total employees: 11,300
Los Alamos National Security, LLC: 8,150
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 300
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 425
Students: 1,100
Unionized craft workers: 980
Post doctoral researchers: 375
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 40 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
63% Weapons programs
9% Nonproliferation programs
5% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
2% Energy and other programs
10% Work for Others
40% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 45
67% male, 33% female
46% minorities
66% university degrees
29% hold undergraduate degrees
17% hold master’s degrees
20% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
8 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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