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Alaska’s salmon hub and DOE explore hydropower’s potential to meet the region’s energy and resiliency needs
News Article, January 31, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories collaborated with the National Renewable Energy and Pacific Northwest National laboratories through the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) to ensure the remote town of Dillingham, Alaska, had dedicated technical assistance for accurately assessing the potential impacts of a low-impact, run-of-river hydropower project. Located in Bristol Bay,...

Arctic Road Rally supported by Sandia
News Article, August 12, 2022 • The northernmost stretch of road in the US is about to become accessible for the first time to electric vehicles. From August 12 to 16, electric vehicle drivers will travel the Dalton Highway to and from the Arctic Ocean as part of the 2022 Arctic Road Rally. Sandia is supporting...
Dalton Highway in Summer, Alaska, USA

Cross-lab summit brings together experts to connect on climate issues
News Article, June 10, 2024 • Addressing climate change is a top priority for the U.S. Department of Energy, and the national laboratories stand at the forefront of research and action to meet this challenge. These efforts were highlighted at the inaugural Climate Summit between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories on May 7...
Five scientists sit at a long table in front of a screen and one person stands off to the side with an audience in the foreground

Electrical circuits encased in fluid may reshape data-center design
News Article, June 26, 2024 • Keeping electrical circuits dry is generally considered a vital safety measure, but at Sandia National Laboratories’ high-performance computing center, technicians adjust live circuits submerged in liquid. “It’s pretty cool — and a little unusual — to walk into a computing lab and see electrical hardware submerged in fluid,” said Sandia...
A man with a face shield, apron, and gloves works on a computer server submerged in liquid

Energy management practices earn Sandia recognition as DOE 50001 Ready site
News Article, November 2, 2023 • Molly Blumhoefer thinks managing energy is just one piece of the puzzle in ensuring Sandia operates efficiently and sustainably. She’s part of Sandia’s energy management team, which has been busy creating a system to organize, measure, improve and, when needed, troubleshoot energy use across the Labs’ California and Albuquerque campuses....
Two men check the liquid cooling system in Sandia's high performance computing building.

Global Climate Security Symposium
News Article, September 22, 2021 • On October 6, 2021, the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories will present a virtual Global Climate Security Symposium, providing an opportunity for a wide and diverse global audience to learn from and engage with regional experts and top U.S. policymakers on climate security. The online event will...

International collaboration investigates low-carbon cement technologies
News Article, April 27, 2023 • Concrete — the hard, durable masonry that surrounds us everywhere in the form of roads, bridges, dams, and buildings — has a carbon problem. Thanks to a key ingredient, cement, concrete production accounts for roughly eight percent of worldwide CO2 emissions. Researchers at Sandia hope to trim down the negative climate...

National achievement awards go to two Sandia Labs engineers
News Article, February 13, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories scientists Patrick Feng and Thushara Gunda recently were honored with national achievement awards by the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. The awards recognize recipients’ leadership and accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Gunda, a systems research analyst, earned a Promising Professional Achievement Award, 2-10 years, for...
Thushara sits at a desk and uses her computer and webcam to talk to The Weather Channel for a TV segment

New report uses data to uncover similarities across Permian Basin counties
News Article, November 4, 2024 • A new report by the Permian Energy Development Lab provides a framework for studying a large and diverse geographic area by aligning counties based on shared characteristics rather than just physical proximity. The report, “Community archetypes in the Permian Basin and their relationship to energy resources,” highlights the differences and...
A map showing the Permian Basin region which stretches from southeast New Mexico into southwestern Texas

Office of Naval Research leverages Sandia-managed airspace over the Arctic Ocean for unmanned aircraft system flight
News Article, July 11, 2024 • Platform Aerospace operated their Ultra-Long Endurance Group 3 Unmanned Aircraft System, Vanilla, in the warning area complex known as W-220, last September at the Oliktok Arctic Research Center. With more than eight-days of endurance, Vanilla holds the world record for continuous, un-refueled flight of a combustion engine aircraft. Sandia National...

Sandia and Port of Alaska sign agreement on renewable-energy and resilience research 
News Article, May 23, 2022 • A new memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Sandia National Laboratories and the Port of Alaska was announced on Monday, May 23, at the ArcticX Summit. This collaboration demonstrates both Sandia’s and the Port of Alaska’s commitment to increasing energy reliability and resilience, as well as transitioning to a clean-energy economy...
Port of Anchorage, Alaska.

Sandia Climate Community Series: Thushara Gunda
News Article, November 30, 2023 • This interview is part of the Sandia Climate Community Series. Thushara Gunda, a systems research analyst in Sandia’s Energy Water System Integration Department, approaches climate-change research as a complex puzzle of scientific, social and cognitive issues. Gunda believes there is a lot of room for individuals to get involved in...
Thushara Gunda and Nicole Jackson in front of a PV panel

Sandia issues Request for Information on advanced solar energy system deployment
News Article, June 6, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories has released a Request for Information (RFI) inviting comments on the deployment of an advanced solar energy system. The deadline for responses has been extended to Friday, July 21, 2023. Introduced in 2021, the advanced solar energy for mission assurance and decarbonization concept seeks to provide Sandia’s...
Concentrating solar power tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)

Sandia sponsors New Mexico Earth Day Festival
News Article, March 21, 2024 • Sandia National Laboratories is sponsoring the Earth Day Festival NM 2024 event on Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque. Join Sandia in this celebration of our planet and discover ways all of us can take action to protect it. This family-friendly event...
Earth Day Festival NM logo

Smart Labs pilot program takes off
News Article, July 26, 2023 • Laboratory practices implemented to improve safety, energy efficiency A new program at Sandia aims to increase occupant safety and make operations more energy efficient. The Sandia Smart Labs pilot has been launched in four buildings in New Mexico and California. On June 28, the team completed its first round of...
A person kneels while working inside a lab hood

Special guests tour North Slope of Alaska
News Article, November 28, 2023 • The Department of Energy Office of Science Director Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and several of her staff members visited the Sandia National Laboratories-managed Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility at the North Slope of Alaska in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, from September 19 to 21, 2023. They were joined by DOE Arctic Energy Office...
Mark Ivey (left) talks with DOE Office of Science Director Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (middle) at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory.

Statistician seeks to understand climate change through variable relationships
News Article, April 24, 2024 • Climate change is a confusing maze of inputs and outputs. Katherine Goode spends her days trying make the variable chaos behave. Katherine is a research and development statistician at Sandia currently supporting the CLDERA Grand Challenge. She is part of a large research team working to understand climate change mitigation strategies...
Photo of K Goode on skis

Transformation in the Permian Basin
News Article, September 17, 2024 • Stretching across 66 counties in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, the vast region known as the Permian Basin is a cornerstone of the U.S. energy economy. The Permian Basin accounts for nearly half of U.S. crude oil production, and if it were a country, it would be one of...
Powerlines against a dark blue sky

Where did it come from? Climate research
News Article, September 23, 2024 • Andy McIlroy warmly recalls Labs Director James Peery’s first visit to Sandia’s California site in January 2020. “He’d been on the job for less than two weeks, yet he was laser-focused on discussing a strategy for how Sandia approaches climate change,” Andy said. James asked Andy to champion development of...
Scientists in and in front of the Da Vinci II balloon