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Lab's 'Science on Saturday' lecture: It's elemental
WHO: Lab scientist Ken Moody and teacher Dean Reese will present "Superheavy Elements: Search for the End of the Periodic Table."WHAT: The periodic table provides a way of presenting chemical information that makes it the fundamental tool of the chemist. Consequently, it is displayed on the walls in most science classrooms. Recent discoveries of new elements have extended…
Media advisory: Lab's 'science on saturday'lecture looks at climate models and the weather around us
WHO: Lab scientist Dean Willliams, and teachers Roger Johnson and Tiffany Burkel, will present "Withstanding Climate Change: You Can Change the World." WHAT: This presentation is designed to give middle- and high-school students a basic understanding of what climate models are and how they function. The evolution of the resolution and complexity of climate models from the…
Next Science on Saturday lecture looks at climate models and the weather around us
"Withstanding Climate Change: You Can Change the World," by Lab scientist Dean Willliams and teachers Roger Johnson and Tiffany Burkel is the third lecture in the Science on Saturday series on Feb. 19, at the Bankhead Theater, 2400 First St. in Livermore. Two presentations are offered at 9:30 and 11:15 a.m.This presentation is designed to give middle and high school…
Science on Saturday lecture strikes a blow for wind energy
A reliable and abundant source of renewable energy for the future could be blowing in the wind.This possibility was the topic of, "It's Gust About Time: Harnessing the Wind for Our Future Energy Needs," by Lab scientists Jeff Mirocha and Sonia Wharton, and teacher Christine Tyler. The lecture was the second in the 2011 Science on Saturday lecture series, held last week.The…
Media advisory: Lab's Science on Saturday lecture: Harnessing Wind for Energy Needs
WHO: Jeff Mirocha and Sonia Wharton, LLNL scientists, and teacher Christine Tyler, will present "It's Gust About Time: Harnessing the Wind for Our Future Energy Needs." Congressman Jerry McNerney, a former wind energy engineer, will address the audience at the start of the first session. WHAT: How can we produce much of the energy we need from clean, renewable sources?…
Saturday lecture to discuss wind energy
"It's Gust about Time: Harnessing the Wind for our Future Energy Needs," by Lab scientists Jeff Mirocha and Sonia Wharton, and teacher Christine Tyler, is the second lecture in the Science on Saturday series on Feb. 12, at the Bankhead Theater, 2400 First St. in Livermore. Two presentations are offered at 9:30 and 11:15 a.m.How can we produce much of the energy we need…
LLNL offers another superb season of Saturday Science lectures
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's popular lecture series, "Science on Saturday," returns Feb. 5 and runs through March 5. This year's talks cover a wide range of current topics -- using proton therapy for cancer; harnessing the wind for energy needs; withstanding climate change; and the search for the end of the periodic table. The lectures are free of charge and…
Postdoc gets to the "heart" of anti-matter in CUORE experiment
Marisa Pedretti, a post-doctoral researcher since January 2009 in the Experimental Nuclear Physics group of the Physics Division of the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, was recently selected as the experimental coordinator for the CUORE-0 tower that consists of 52 tellurium dioxide crystal bolometers to measure radiation. What is CUORE? CUORE-0 is the first step…
