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In Its First Year Of Grantmaking The Encantado Foundation Awards More Than $440,000 To STEM Efforts

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The Encantado Foundation News:

SANTA FE – In its first year of grantmaking, The Encantado Foundation announced Monday that it awarded more than $440,000 to New Mexico nonprofit organizations through its 2022 Community Based Grant and Impact Grant Programs.

The recipients of these grants, which were selected from among applications received between April 2022 and November of 2022, represent a variety of STEM-oriented organizations, initiatives and events from Santa Fe, Bernalillo, Sandoval and Taos counties.

Through its two grantmaking programs, The Encantado Foundation strives Read More

LANL: SuperCam Records First Audio Of Martian Dust Devil

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Audio and visual data from the dust devil that passed over the Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/INTA-CSIC/Space Science Institute/ISAE-Supaer. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News: 
  • A 387-foot dust devil passed directly over the Perseverance rover 

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are part of a team that, for the first time, recorded the sound of a Martian dust devil; the results were published in Nature Communications.

“We were able to record, for the first time on Mars, the sound of a dust devil passing over the rover and sand grains impacting the structure

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Three Virginia Tech Researchers Team Up To Visualize Radiation With Virtual Reality

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Virginia Tech professors bring together their expertise and inventions to create a highly innovative technology for high-fidelity, real-time monitoring of nuclear power plant cores. Courtesy/Virginia Tech

VIRGINIA TECH News:

Three Virginia Tech professors from nuclear engineering, physics, and industrial engineering are bringing together their expertise and inventions to create a highly innovative technology for high-fidelity, real-time monitoring of nuclear power plant cores. 

The project would increase the safety and economy of nuclear reactors and has received funds Read More

McQuiston: Build A Strong Cybersecurity Culture Through Employee Training

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ALLEN MCQUISTON
The Jemez Agency

Data breaches, hacks, and email fraud are hitting businesses of all sizes. It’s not just the big corporations like Equifax and Marriott International—all companies need to prioritize cybersecurity. According to one report, two-thirds of small and medium size businesses suffered a cyberattack in the past 12 months.

With cyberattacks on the rise, it’s clear that you need to take time now to evaluate the vulnerabilities in your company. Many businesses think they are protected once they set up an IT security system, but the truth is that an increasing number Read More

DOE Awards Non-Competitive Financial Assistance Grant To Environmental Research Institute Of The States

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DOE News:

CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it is awarding a non-competitive financial assistance grant to the Environmental Research Institute of the States to conduct work through the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC).

The funds will assist ITRC in increasing state regulators’ understanding and confidence in innovative technologies/approaches; producing guidance documents and training that are used by environmental professionals across the country; fostering integration of new technical developments within existing regulations; Read More

AGU: Biggest Marsquake 5 Times Larger Than Previous Record-Holder

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The domed seismometer on NASA’s InSight Rover measured Mars’s largest quake. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Late on the Earth night of May 4, or Sol 1222 on Mars, the seismometer aboard NASA’s InSight Mars Lander detected a quake on the Red Planet, with reverberations lasting many hours.

The Marsquake was at least five times as large as the next largest quake recorded on the planet, according to new research published Wednesday in Geophysical Research Letters, an AGU journal. Additional research related to the record Marsquake also was presented at AGU’s Fall Meeting, Read More

US Space Entities Examine Future Space Technology

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Dr. Joel Mozer, director for Science, Technology and Research for the U.S. Space Force, discusses the future of space at the 2022 Space Futures Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, Nov. 29. Seventy individuals from the space ecosystem including Air Force Research Laboratory representatives gathered to examine future technologies and forge a path towards ensuring the U.S. maintains its advantage in the space domain. Courtesy/NewSpace NM

AFRL News:

KIRTLAND AFB — Seventy professionals from the space ecosystem gathered for the Space Futures Workshop, Nov. 29-30, to examine future technologies Read More

Scenes From UbiQD’s 2022 Holiday Party At Posse Lodge

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UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel plays a game with his son at the company’s 2022 Holiday Party held Dec. 8 at the Sheriff’s Posse Lodge on North Mesa. Family members were included at the event in which local DJ Parrish provided music and Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op provided beverages. Learn more about UbiQD here. Courtesy photo

Scene from UbiQD’s 2022 Holiday Party held Dec. 8 at the Sheriff’s Posse Lodge on North Mesa. Courtesy photo

Scene from UbiQD’s 2022 Holiday Party held Dec. 8 at the Sheriff’s Posse Lodge on North Mesa. Courtesy photo

Scene from UbiQD’s 2022 Holiday Party held Dec. 8 at the Read More

FBI In New Mexico Warns Of Increase In Sextortion Reports

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Courtesy/FBI

FBI News:

The FBI in New Mexico is warning parents and children about a significant increase in the number of sextortion reports during the past year.

From Jan. 1 to Dec. 19, 2022, the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) received 168 e-tips or calls about possible sextortion cases in New Mexico.

During the same period in 2021, NTOC received 38 e-tips or calls for New Mexico.

Even though some tips might reference the same incidents, the increase is serious enough that the FBI wants to bring this crime to the public’s attention as schools let out for the holidays and children Read More

Malizia: Biobot Analytics Response To John Pearson

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BECCA MALIZIA 
Biobot Analytics

I’m the Science Communications Manager for Biobot Analytics.

We came across a recent letter to the editor (Link) on tracking Covid in wastewater that mentioned Biobot, and we have a few comments we’d love to share:

  • Los Alamos County is a participant in the CDC’s NWSS Program. This program is managed by Biobot, but funded by the CDC. Biobot is not receiving funds from Los Alamos County;

  • Our variant data for Los Alamos County shows that the primary variant circulating is BA.5. For context, BF and BQ are subvariants of BA.5, which are included in the overall BA.5 percentage

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