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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.

Special guests tour North Slope of Alaska

November 28, 2023 7:56 am

The Department of Energy Office (DOE) of Science Director Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and several of her staff members visited the Sandia National... View Article

A solar panel gleams in a grassy field beneath a blue sky and gentle clouds

Join us at Resilience Week 2023!

October 11, 2023 8:00 am

This November, Sandia researchers will join partners and other national laboratories at Resilience Week 2023. Join us for conversations focused... View Article

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Upcoming webinar to address energy equity and community resilience

September 29, 2023 9:06 am

Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have decades of experience in providing decision and deployment support to... View Article

Jessica Kustas, left, and Andre Benally work with a mass spectrometer at Sandia National Laboratories while trying to pair up technologies to go beyond just absorbing PFAS. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

Sandia scientists achieve breakthrough in tackling PFAS contamination

June 5, 2023 8:01 am

A team at Sandia National Laboratories is developing materials to tackle what has become one of the biggest problems in... View Article

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 switches to hydrogen weather balloons

May 24, 2023 7:00 am

Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate... View Article

A snapshot of a global simulation superimposed on a view of the earth from space

Sandia cloud-resolving climate model meets world’s fastest supercomputer

April 13, 2023 8:00 am

Focused on the accuracy of climate predictions, a computational team led by Sandia National Laboratories recently achieved a major milestone... View Article

Two researchers peer through an artistic representation of the chemical structure of a kind of clay

Can clay capture carbon dioxide?

March 23, 2023 8:00 am

The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide — a gas that is great at trapping heat, contributing to climate change —... View Article

Alaska’s salmon hub and DOE explore hydropower’s potential to meet the region’s energy and resiliency needs

January 31, 2023 9:19 am

Sandia National Laboratories collaborated with the National Renewable Energy and Pacific Northwest National laboratories through the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership... View Article

Two researchers stand in the desert. Power transformers are on the horizon in the background.

A fresh look at restoring power to the grid

January 31, 2023 8:50 am

Climate change can alter extreme weather events, and these events have the potential to strain, disrupt or damage the nation’s grid.... View Article

The Arctic Ocean near Barrow, officially known as Utqiaġvik, in late June 2012. Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.

Sandia collaborating with UNM-led team on sea ice model

December 12, 2022 8:00 am

This fall, the Department of Energy announced funding for several projects aimed at improving their Energy Exascale Earth System Model... View Article

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