(AGENPARL) – ven 25 agosto 2023 A weekly compendium of media reports on science and technology achievements
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Though the Laboratory reviews
items for overall accuracy, the reporting organizations are responsible for
the content in the links below.
….. LLNL Report, Aug. 25, 2023
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory won three 2023 R&D 100 awards,
recognizing the Lab for development of software including zfp, Varorium and
the CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE).
… LLNL Represents at R&D100 awards

R&D 100 Winners for 2023 are announced

R&D World magazine announced the winners of the 2023 R&D 100 Awards on Aug..
22, with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) taking home three
awards in the Software/Services category.* *
LLNL was recognized for zfp, an extremely fast compressor and decompressor
for floating-point data that achieves up to 2 gigabytes/second throughput;
Varorium, a platform-agnostic library exposing monitor and control interfaces
for several features in hardware architectures; and for CANDLE (CANcer
Distributed Learning Environment), a Department of Energy/National Cancer
Institute-developed machine learning and deep learning platform aimed at
accelerating discovery of new cancer therapies and treatments. The CANDLE
award was shared with collaborators Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Frederick
National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
The renowned worldwide R&D100 science and innovation competition, celebrating
its 61st year, received entries from 15 different countries and regions. This
year’s esteemed judging panel included 45 well-respected industry
professionals from across the world.
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R&D 100 Winners for 2023 are announced

The late Maggie Gee, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist and a
pioneering World War II aviator, is scheduled to be inducted into the
California Hall of Fame. Photo courtesy of asamnews.com
… Ex-LLNL physicist Gee a Hall of Famer
https://www.independentnews.com/news/regional_and_ca/llnl-physicist-honored/article_5157b406-41c5-11ee-8d44-7f55f4bba8ea.html
The late Maggie Gee, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist and a
pioneering World War II aviator, was scheduled to be inducted into the
California Hall of Fame as the Independent went to press this week.
Gee was one of only two Chinese American women chosen to fly aircraft for the
U.S. Army Air Force under the World War II program, Women Airforce Service
Pilots (WASP).
At a time when women were not allowed into combat, the WASP program was
created to carry out domestic aviation jobs, like ferrying aircraft and
training new pilots, without tying up combat-qualified male pilots.
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https://www.independentnews.com/news/regional_and_ca/llnl-physicist-honored/article_5157b406-41c5-11ee-8d44-7f55f4bba8ea.html
From 1986 to 2022, temperatures declined in the higher levels of Earth’s
atmosphere (starting at top left, blue shades) while increasing in the layers
of atmosphere closest to the Earth’s surface (bottom row, red shades). Image
courtesy of Benjamin Santer/UCLA.
… Climate change chills the stratosphere
Human-driven climate change has caused large and concerning temperature
decreases in the stratosphere since at least 1986, according to a UCLA-led
study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The
study includes multiple co-authors from Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory.
That sustained stratospheric cooling, the authors report, is evidence that
the warming of Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere is not a natural
occurrence.
In particular, the study confirms the effects of human causes on the overall
climate: The temperature changes in the stratosphere were 12 to 15 times
greater than what could have been caused by nature.
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Kern County is not only a top carbon emitter but now also the state’s
largest renewable energy producer. As it tries to become a leader in carbon
removal, it faces a debate over who benefits from and who pays for this new
economic model. Art by Dara O’Rourke.
… A “Green Revolution” in the Central Valley?

A Green Revolution In California’s ‘Carbon Valley’

Kern County seems almost ideal for carbon removal and storage. Growing
acreage that’s going fallow can be used to host solar farms that power
direct air capture facilities that then pump carbon dioxide underground, into
a geology naturally ready for 1,000-year storage.
George Peridas, an energy and carbon management expert from Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, recently noted that California’s geology is
“a gift from God that the state received.” California is estimated to
have enough geologic storage for 17 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide;
meanwhile, Peridas said, the state emits roughly 400 million metric tons of
carbon dioxide equivalents annually. And as Peridas noted, Kern has the
workforce and expertise for this exact job. “You have people who have been
pulling out the carbon. They’re also going to be pretty good at putting the
carbon back in.”
Read More https://www.noemamag.com/a-green-revolution-in-carbon-valley/
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