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DOE OSTI2020

Partnership and Pipeline Office Overview [Slides]

Partnerships ensure a strong Laboratory and support our missions. Partnerships are critical to our success as a Laboratory: community relations, colleges and universities and technical communities, regional and national economic development through industrial partners, DOE Laboratories, and other federal agencies. The Laboratory has many tools to build and enhance partnerships. The Community Programs Office in our Northern New Mexico Region has K-12 educational programs, supports teacher professional development and retention in regional elementary, middle and high schools, and provides community college engagement. The Partnerships and Pipeline Office works with the National Security Education Center (NSEC) which has broad university engagement including New Mexico universities. The Feynman Center for Innovation is involved in 'tech transfer' to innovation asset stewardship. The External Assignments Office shares LANL's technical expertise. The Student and Postdoc Program Offices build our workforce of the future.

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DOE OSTI2020

Strategies for seeking a job at a national lab [Slides]

Understanding the job market from the hiring side can help you develop better strategies for seeking a job. National laboratories represent a substantial source of jobs in the U.S. in engineering and science. High school, college, and graduate student internship positions are all available, but you can be more successful in finding one of these positions if you use a targeted search. Likewise, reaching out to individual researchers and/or knowing how to respond to job ads can increase your chances of getting an interview for a permanent job or positions, such as postdoc and postbac appointments, that can lead to permanent jobs. In my career as a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I have hired people into all of these job categories, as well as served on many hiring committees for all levels of appointments. I will offer Polonius*-type advice for jobseekers and discuss the hiring process and how you can optimize your own job search.

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DOE OSTI2021

Software on Mars [Slides]

This community outreach presentation for high school students discusses instrumentation and software developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory for NASA's Perseverance rover that landed on Mars February 2021.

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DOE OSTI2021

Surface Molecular Chemistry in Solar Fuel Research

Through this research, we aim to combine transition metal catalysts with light-absorbing semiconductors for use in efficient solar energy conversion. Upon receiving photogenerated electrons from the semiconductors, the transition metal catalysts could accelerate the reduction of carbon dioxide into energy-rich fuels. We have deposited cobalt complexes, including cobalt macrocycles and single cobalt catalysts, onto different semiconductors that demonstrated targeted activities in photochemical carbon dioxide reduction. The structures and catalytic mechanisms of the surface cobalt catalysts were investigated using advanced techniques, including X-ray absorption spectroscopy at DOE user facilities. Our research provides new strategies to enable effective coupling between molecularly defined catalytic sites with heterogeneous surfaces for converting solar energy into chemicals and fuels. Research results obtained through this project have been disseminated through journal publications and conference presentation. In addition, this project provided important interdisciplinary training opportunities for two postdoctoral scholars, four graduate researchers, and one high school student. It also allowed us to establish successful State-National Laboratory partnerships with Brookhaven National Lab and Argonne National Lab.

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DOE OSTI2021

The development of yield-based sooting tendency measurements and modeling to enable advanced combustion fuels

This project produced clear evidence that biofuels can reduce particulate emissions from road vehicles compared with petroleum-derived fuels. It also produced fundamental knowledge that can be used to select fuel compositions and engine designs that will maximize this benefit. This information has been disseminated through more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, more than 30 conference presentations, and 5 freely available internet databases and web tools. This project also provided educational opportunities to 17 students at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels.

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DOE OSTI2023

LANL Institutional Computing Close-out Report for Project t22_ocean_time_step

This year, my team made a very productive use of LANL IC time. Four papers were published that used IC resources, and two more are under review. These publications fall into three categories: 1.) Improving tide modeling in the global ocean by adding self attraction and loading (Barton et. al. 2022), ice shelf cavities (Pal et al. 2023), and local time stepping (Lilly et al. 2023). 2.) A new sea ice numerical formulation (Capodaglio 2023). 3.) Performance comparisons, methods, and test cases for ocean model development, This includes a verification suite for ocean models (Bishnu, submitted) and a comparison between Julia and Fortran (Strauss, submitted). A new time-stepping method was introduced in Calandrini et al. (2022). These publications, and the use of LANL IC resources, go hand-in-hand with our mentoring efforts to train young scientists. Two of the lead authors are graduate students who are conducting their PhD research: Kristin Barton at the University of Michigan and Jeremy Lilly at Oregon State. These are both their first publications, and they both have DOE funding and DOE mentors. In addition, Bishnu is a post-doctoral researcher at LANL; Strauss conducted his research as a senior in high school; and Capodaglio, Calandrini and Pal are all early-career scientists who were converted to staff in 2021 or 2022. Here we highlight two publications on improvements in tidal modeling: Barton et al. 2022 and Lilly et al. 2023.

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DOE OSTI2023

Impact Report: Quantum Systems Accelerator

The Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) is a U.S. National Quantum Information Science Research Center established in August 2020 and funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. QSA is composed of 15 partner institutions— universities and national laboratories—bringing together pioneers of many of today’s unique quantum information science (QIS) and engineering capabilities. Led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia Labs) as the lead partner, 250+ QSA researchers are catalyzing U.S. leadership in a fast-growing field that seeks solutions to the Nation’s and the world’s most pressing problems by harnessing the laws of quantum mechanics.

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DOE OSTI2023

Student Programs Office Overview [Slides]

The Student Programs further the Laboratory’s goal of developing and mentoring the next generation of scientific, technical, and professional staff by supporting 2,000+ interns at all levels (high school, undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate) along with 2,000+ mentors and 70 division student liaisons. The activities include internship promotion and external engagement, intern identification and sourcing, training and orientation, professional and career development, social and community engagement, and compliance.

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS↗
DOE OSTI2023

Exploiting the Higgs Boson for Discovery

This document summarizes the research program of Prof. Meyer within the ATLAS Collaboration during the period of August 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023. In particular, the recently discovered Higgs boson was used as a probe to learn more about the fundamental particles that make up the universe and the forces that govern them. The group performing this work was composed of one postdoc, one graduate student, and one high-school student. Products include one publication, one public note that is being prepared for journal submission, and three public presentations.

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DOE OSTI2023

Bright Solar Futures

The Bright Solar Futures (BSF) program addresses national climate and energy concerns by fulfilling the need for more solar technicians. About to enter its 5th year, the program demonstrates how the need for alternative energy can be addressed through a sustainable education and employment strategy. Career and Technical Education (CTE) Solar programs in the U.S. that train young adults for employment in the solar industry are in demand. Bright Solar Futures is designed to fill this local and national need as a replicable high school solar curriculum for CTE students.

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DOE OSTI2023

Advancing Energy Efficiency Through Workforce Training

This Final Technical Report summarizes the work done on to develop and implement the Energy Basics Training Tool with industry partners and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This project leveraged existing infrastructure and content developed by DOE in the Building America Solution Center (BASC) and Building Science Education Solution Center (BSESC) to design model content sets for use in entry-level construction programs at the high school certificate, boot camp, and other entry level training programs.

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DOE OSTI2025

Remembering Robert S. Fitzhugh, 1932-2007

Robert S. Fitzhugh, a Laboratory pioneer and mainstay of the Laboratory’s nuclear testing program, died January 7, 2007, just two days after celebrating his 85 th birthday. An engineer dedicated to craft, Fitz was one of the longest serving Laboratory employees and one of the most respected. His pension, because of his long tenure, was higher than his salary. Born January 5, 1922, in Philadelphia, Fitz graduated high school in 1939 and from Michigan State University with a BS in Electrical Engineering in June 1943. He enlisted in the United States Army in May 1943 and, after completing basic training, attended the University of Iowa as part of the Army Specialized Training Program. When the ASTP program was disbanded in early 1944, Fitz was sent to Columbia University as a laboratory technician and then on to Oak Ridge, where he worked on the thermal diffusion program. Fitz did not like Oak Ridge, describing the Zeppelin-like hanger he worked in as “a horrible place.”

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DOE OSTI2021

Bioinformatic teaching resources - for educators, by educators - using KBase, a free, user-friendly, open source platform

Over the past year, biology educators and staff at the Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) initiated a collaborative effort to develop a curriculum for bioinformatics education. KBase is a free and easily accessible data science platform that integrates many bioinformatics resources into a graphical user interface built upon reproducible analysis notebooks. KBase held conversations with college and high school instructors to understand how KBase could potentially support their educational goals. These conversations morphed into a working group of biological and data science instructors that adapted the KBase platform to their curriculum needs, specifically around concepts in Genomics, Metagenomics, Pangenomics, and Phylogenetics. The KBase Educators Working Group developed modular, adaptable, and customizable instructional units. Each instructional module contains teaching resources, publicly available data, analysis tools, and markdown capability to tailor instructions and learning goals for each class. The online user interface enables students to conduct hands-on data science research and analyses without requiring programming skills or their own computational resources (these are provided by KBase). Alongside these resources, KBase continues to work with instructors, supporting the development of additional curriculum modules. For anyone new to the platform, KBase, and the growing KBase Educators Organization, provides a community network, accompanied by community-sourced guidelines, instructional templates, and peer support to use KBase within a classroom whether virtual or in-person.

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DOE OSTI2020

An Evaluation of the Economic and Resilience Benefits of a Microgrid in Northampton, Massachusetts

Recent developments and advances in distributed energy resource (DER) technologies make them valuable assets in microgrids. This paper presents an innovative evaluation framework for microgrid assets to capture economic benefits from various grid and behind-the-meter services in grid-connecting mode and resilience benefits in islanding mode. In particular, a linear programming formulation is used to model different services and DER operational constraints to determine the optimal DER dispatch to maximize economic benefits. For the resiliency analysis, a stochastic evaluation procedure is proposed to explicitly quantify the microgrid survivability against a random outage, considering uncertainties associated with photovoltaic (PV) generation, system load, and distributed generator failures. Optimal coordination strategies are developed to minimize unserved energy and improve system survivability, considering different levels of system connectedness. The proposed framework has been applied to evaluate a proposed microgrid in Northampton, Massachusetts that would link the Northampton Department of Public Works, Cooley Dickenson Hospital, and Smith Vocational Area High School. The findings of this analysis indicate that over a 20-year economic life, a 441 kW/441 kWh battery energy storage system, and 386 kW PV solar array can generate $2.5 million in present value benefits, yielding a 1.16 return on investment ratio. Results of this study also show that forming a microgrid generally improves system survivability, but the resilience performance of individual facilities varies depending on power-sharing strategies.

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DOE OSTI2020

Characterization of Potential Micrometeorites by Synchrotron Analysis

Micrometeorites (MMs) are small particles that account for most of the extraterrestrial material deposited on Earth. Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence and diffraction allowed for chemical and mineral characterization to distinguish MM from atmospheric particulate. The relative components of iron, nickel, and other elements were considered in the identification of ferrous MM while high amounts of titanium were considered an indication that the particles were of atmospheric origin. Out of 100 samples collected by high school students and teachers, eight were taken to a synchrotron for analysis. Of those eight, three exhibited extraterrestrial compositions. X-ray absorption near-edge structure analysis revealed that the same three samples contained sulfide, the main sulfur form constituent in MM. X-ray microdiffraction analysis showed the presence of the minerals pentlandite and forsterite. Collectively, these results support the extraterrestrial nature of the three particles.

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