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Sandia switches to hydrogen weather balloons
News Article, May 24, 2023 • Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate data. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons, they have reduced their metaphorical footprint on the fragile Arctic ecosystem. More than three years ago, the Sandia-operated atmospheric measurement...
A hydrogen-filled weather balloon launches automatically from a Department of Energy atmospheric measurement facility in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. About three years ago, Sandia National Laboratories switched from launching helium-filled balloons to launching hydrogen-filled balloons to reduce costs and carbon emissions. (Photo by Ben Bishop)

Sandia team receives prestigious recognition at ARPA-E EVs4ALL Annual Meeting
News Article, August 12, 2025 • Sandia recently received a Best Booth award for exceptional content, engagement and innovation at the 2025 ARPA-E Summit held in March. The award was presented to the Sandia team during the ARPA-E EVs4ALL Annual Meeting in Detroit. The award-winning booth showcased an innovative framework for the safety evaluation of batteries....
photo of winning booth at the 2025 ARPA-E Summit.

Sandia to host Deployable Wind Power for Defense and Disaster Response Workshop on June 17th
News Article, June 13, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, and the University of Dayton Research Institute will present the Deployable Wind Power for Defense and Disaster Response Workshop on June 17, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Stakeholders from the defense and disaster response communities are invited to attend to...

Sandia to Host Discussion of Progress in Fusion Energy
News Article, March 14, 2022 • What is fusion energy? Why are we hearing more about it recently? Could fusion energy change the world? Sandia invites the public to learn more about these and other questions related to fusion energy startups and technological innovations on March 29, 2022, 10-11:00 a.m. MDT on Microsoft Teams. This virtual...
PHOTO: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a collaborative nuclear fusion research and engineering project aiming to build the world’s largest magnetic fusion device, also known as a tokamak, in southern France. CREDIT: ITER Organization

Sandia to study snow-related energy losses using Morgan Solar’s sensor
News Article, August 11, 2023 • Photovoltaic researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are partnering with tech-company Morgan Solar to identify and quantify the amount of energy lost when a solar PV plant is covered in snow. Scientists will evaluate Morgan’s I IOT sensor, the IV DAQ, which captures continuous in situ data and can operate in...

Sandia uses electric-grid analytics to combat wildfire risks and aid post-wildfire recovery
News Article, February 1, 2024 • Wildfires impact the safety and security of society. The electric grid can initiate wildfires and is susceptible to wildfires. Sandia’s wildfire grid resilience program aims to mitigate and determine the risk of ignition, reduce wildfire spread, and decrease the consequences of major wildfires through new tools and better-informed decision making....

Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off (SWEPT) Laboratory
Facility • The Sandia Wave Energy Power Take-off (SWEPT) Laboratory offers mobile, specialized testing for systems that produce power from wave energy. SWEPT is used to test wave energy converter (WEC) power take-off (PTO) systems. WECs are unique because they convert the oscillatory mechanical energy from ocean waves to generate electricity, which differentiates them...

Sandia Wind Energy Technologies Program takes lead for six incubator awards
News Article, November 8, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories received the lead on six new incubator awards announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office on October 20. WETO provided the wind-specific seed funding for a new program to create novel pathways to innovation while allowing the national labs a higher degree of risk...

Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database
Page • eval_id: Simulation number The Sandia Wind Turbine Loads Database is divided into six files, each corresponding to approximately 16 years of simulation. The files are text files with data in columnar format. The first line in each file is a header line defining the contents of each column. The variables...

Sandia wins 5 R&D 100 awards and a silver specialty award
News Article, September 19, 2022 • Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, Sandia National Laboratories researchers captured four R&D 100 Awards this year and supported a fifth. One entry also won the R&D 100’s Special Recognition Market Disrupter Silver Award. R&D World Magazine — formerly R&D Magazine — presents the awards...
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Sandia-led team develops an end-to-end Generative AI platform to automate and protect confidential communications 
News Article, September 30, 2025 • A Sandia-led team, in partnership with Idaho National Laboratory, recently made a significant step toward secure and efficient inter-organizational collaboration using advanced generative AI technologies.   Large Language Models (LLMs) are part of artificial intelligence systems that rely on massive datasets to understand and generate human language. LLMs use patterns...

Sandia’s concentrating solar quarterly seminar addresses challenges associated with surfaces at high temperatures
News Article, June 22, 2022 • Sandia National Laboratories’ Concentrating Solar Power Program will present its third quarterly concentrating solar seminar, “Textured Surfaces for Applications in Concentrating Solar Power,” on June 23, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. MDT. Professor Ranga Pitchumani, of the Advanced Materials and Technologies Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering...

Sandia’s geoscience group organizes conference on the mechanical behavior of salt
News Article, July 30, 2025 • Sandia’s Geoscience Research and Applications Group organized and sponsored the 11th SaltMech conference July 8-10, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. SaltMech XI focused on research findings and practical experiences regarding the mechanical behavior of rock salt in the context of safe use in mining, energy storage and waste disposal. Retired Sandian Keri Sobolik...
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Sandia’s Grid Modernization team for PR100 report receives Secretary’s Honor Award
News Article, March 28, 2024 • A multi-laboratory research team, including members from Sandia’s Grid Modernization group, received a 2023 Secretary’s Honor Award for its contributions to the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100).The prestigious award recognizes the Department of Energy’s employees and contractors who make positive, lasting impacts on...

Sandia’s marine researchers to host MASK Basin WEC Workshop Information Session
News Article, May 11, 2023 • Join Sandia National Laboratories as it hosts the “WEC Design, Modeling, Control, and Testing Workshop Information Session,” Tuesday, June 6, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. MT. During this informative session, you’ll learn what to expect at the in-person WEC workshop hosted by Sandia later this year. The in-person...
Wave Energy Converter floats in MAASK Basin pool

Sandia’s photovoltaic performance and modeling workshop takes place in November 2023
News Article, July 7, 2023 • Proposals sought for PV Performance Modeling Collaborative sessions Sandia National Laboratories’ PV Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) will hold its European Workshop Nov. 8–9, 2023. SUPSI PVLab will host the event at the campus of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The event will...
Photovoltaic solar panels gleam against the backdrop of a setting sun

Sandia’s Water Power program to present WEC Power-Takeoff (PTO) Testing webinar
News Article, March 14, 2023 • Join Sandia National Laboratories as it hosts the webinar, “WEC PTO Testing” on March 24, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. MT. The design and testing of power take-off (PTO) systems for wave energy converters (WECs) is critically important to functionality and performance. This webinar will discuss the key...

Sandia’s Wind Energy Program releases its FY22 Accomplishments Report
News Article, April 5, 2023 • Sandia National Laboratories Wind Energy Program has released its Wind Energy Program FY22 Accomplishments Report. The portfolio consists of projects funded by the DOE EERE Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), DOE Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office, and the Sandia Laboratory Directed Research and Development...

Sandian named Scientist of the Year
News Article, September 11, 2023 • “I was the only farm worker who had a calculus book in his car,” Sal Rodriguez joked when I asked him about his upbringing. But it was no joke. The son of immigrants, Sal grew up in the tiny town of Calexico, California and worked in the fields to put...
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Sandians visit Puerto Rico to participate in grid resilience and distributed energy conversations in wake of Hurricane Fiona
News Article, November 9, 2022 • Sandians Summer Ferreira, Matt Lave, and Olga Hart recently visited San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they participated in an Advisory Group Meeting associated with the multi-National-Lab PR100 project to discuss lessons learned related to grid resilience and distributed energy in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. Meeting participants included community leaders,...

Save the Date — 2022 Sandia Blade Workshop: Oct. 17-20, Albuquerque, NM
News Article, March 1, 2022 • Save the Date! When: October 17—20, 2022 Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Please mark your calendars for the return of the Sandia Blade Workshop, in-person and in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 17-20, 2022. The workshop brings together wind industry experts, wind farm stakeholders and operators, manufacturers, and researchers to address...

Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWiFT)
Facility • Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWiFT) Enabling rapid, cost-effective research and making unique assets available to improve wind plant performance, advance technology, and build trusted partnerships. The Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility, in Lubbock, Texas, is a state-of-the-art public research and training facility funded by the U.S. Department of...

Scientists chip away at a metallic mystery, one atom at a time
News Article, September 28, 2022 • Gray and white flecks skitter erratically on a computer screen. A towering microscope looms over a landscape of electronic and optical equipment. Inside the microscope, high-energy, accelerated ions bombard a flake of platinum thinner than a hair on a mosquito’s back. Meanwhile, a team of scientists studies the seemingly chaotic...
In this photo from 2020, Christopher Barr, right, a former Sandia National Laboratories postdoctoral researcher, and University of California, Irvine, professor Shen Dillon operate the In-situ Ion Irradiation Transmission Electron Microscope. Barr was part of a Sandia team that used the one-of-a-kind microscope to study atomic-scale radiation effects on metal. (Photo by Lonnie Anderson)

Shamina Hossain-McKenzie
Staff Page • Principal Member of Technical Staff. Biography Dr. Shamina Hossain-McKenzie is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Cyber Resilience R&D Department at Sandia National Laboratories; she focuses on grid cybersecurity research. She received her electrical engineering Ph. D. and Master’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
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