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Arctic Airspace Warning Area Established to Aid Research & Exploration
News Article, August 21, 2015 • The red bar depicts the 40-mile-wide, 700-mile-long warning airspace now under management by Sandia personnel for DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facilities. The space extends from a northern point of the US highway system to 400 miles short of the North Pole. The monitored space will better ensure the safety of...

CRF Researchers Are Source for 2015 QTR Sidebar Content
News Article, October 1, 2015 • On September 10th, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz released the second Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR 2015), which examines the most promising research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) opportunities across energy technologies to effectively address the nation’s energy needs. Specifically, this analysis identifies the important technology RDD&D opportunities across energy supply and...

NASA Award for Marginal Ice Zone Observations and Process Experiment (MIZOPEX)
News Article, February 24, 2015 • Research team members prepare the Sierra Unmanned Aerial System for flight from Oliktok Point, Alaska. (Photo by Mark Ivey) Sandians Mark Ivey and Darin Desilets were included in a NASA Group Achievement Award “for outstanding achievement in executing the MIZOPEX using multiple classes of unmanned aircraft [UASs].” The MIZOPEX campaign...

Predicting Pressure-Dependent Combustion Chemical Reactions
News Article, February 25, 2015 • The Combustion Research Facility (CRF) at Sandia’s Livermore, California, site. Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical reaction rates—an important breakthrough in combus­tion and atmospheric chemistry that is expected to benefit auto and engine manufacturers, oil and...
The combustion research facility seen from overhead

Sandia Optical Diagnostics Researcher Wins DOE Early Career Award
News Article, July 1, 2015 • Sandia Combustion Research Facility (CRF) scientist Christopher Kliewer (in Sandia’s Combustion Chemistry Dept.) won a DOE Office of Science (SC) Early Career Research Program award to develop new optical diagnostics to study interfacial combustion interactions that are major sources of pollution and vehicle inefficiency. The funding opportunity for researchers in...
The combustion research facility seen from overhead

Sandia Participates in Office of Science’s National Science Bowl
News Article, July 1, 2015 • The Department of Energy Office of Science’s National Science Bowl® (NSB) is a nationwide academic competition that tests middle and high school student teams’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. The DOE created the National Science Bowl® in 1991 to encourage students to excel in mathematics and science...

Sandia Research Featured on Journal of Physical Chemistry A Cover
News Article, July 15, 2015 • As part of Sandia’s core geochemistry program funded by DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Sandia’s Randall Cygan (in Sandia’s Geoscience Research and Applications Dept.) and his collaborators, W. Crawford Elliott and his PhD student Laura Zaunbrecher from Georgia State University, have been examining the adsorption mechanisms of metal...