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Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498

Place

Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property.

1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.

Replacement value of $14.2 billion

Budget

FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others

Demographics

Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.

Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD

Awards

145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines

Directions

Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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Colorado River basin due for more frequent, intense hydroclimate events - 4/7/21

New Los Alamos technology detects thermal neutrons in aircraft - 3/31/21

Probing wet fire smoke in clouds: Can water intensify the Earth’s warming? - 3/29/21

New machine harnesses Earth’s magnetic field to detect chemicals - 3/15/21

Prescribed burns and other low-intensity fires are highly responsive to changes in winds - 3/4/21

Freshwater outflow from Beaufort Sea could alter global climate patterns - 2/24/21

Forests with diverse tree sizes and small clearings hinder wildland fire growth - 1/27/21

AI reveals first direct observation of rupture propagation during slow quakes - 12/9/20

Study reveals how to improve natural gas production in shale - 11/12/20

Los Alamos works to make better, more recyclable plastics with new BOTTLE consortium - 11/9/20

Fallen trees become firewood for local pueblos - 11/9/20

Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast - 10/28/20

Up to 15 inches of sea-level rise from ice sheets by 2100 predicted by international modeling collaboration - 9/17/20

Up in smoke: the story of the Medio Fire - 9/1/20

Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data - 8/18/20

Study finds less impact from wildfire smoke on climate - 7/9/20

New technique separates industrial noise from natural seismic signals - 5/19/20

El Niño–linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs - 5/11/20

Machine learning reveals earth tremor and slip occur continuously, not intermittently - 2/26/20

Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide - 11/25/19

Los Alamos team sets sail for Arctic on year-long research expedition - 9/23/19

Faint foreshocks foretell California quakes - 7/31/19

Numerical model pinpoints source of pre-cursor to seismic signals - 7/29/19

Machine-learning competition boosts earthquake prediction capabilities - 7/18/19

Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers - 4/18/19

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northern New Mexico College launch radiation protection course to help fill high-demand jobs - 3/19/19

Machine learning-detected signal predicts time to earthquake - 12/17/18

Arctic ice model upgrade to benefit polar research, industry and military - 12/5/18

Arctic greening thaws permafrost, boosts runoff - 10/17/18

Study confirms beetles exploit warm winters to expand range - 6/19/18

Understanding meltwater drainpipe formation In Greenland ice sheet - 1/22/18

Data analysis could trigger new shale gas revolution - 5/8/17

Leaky plumbing impedes Greenland Ice Sheet flow - 12/19/16

Plants found to regulate leaf temperature to boost carbon uptake - 8/30/16

James TenCate elected Acoustical Society of America fellow - 8/30/16

Tide-triggered tremors give clues for earthquake prediction - 7/21/16

Two energy technology projects from Los Alamos gain DOE funding - 6/21/16

New mobile application allows users to take virtual tour of Project Y of Manhattan Project National Historical Park - 6/7/16

Energy-water challenge emerges in Colorado River flows - 3/22/16

Media Advisory: White House to host Water Summit - 3/21/16

Rapid ice-wedge melting accelerates permafrost decline - 3/15/16

Study forecasts disappearance of conifers due to climate change - 12/21/15

New model more accurately tracks gases for underground nuclear explosion detection - 12/17/15

Los Alamos National Laboratory receives second Presidential Award as a climate champion - 12/8/15

New climate model predicts likelihood of Greenland ice melt, sea level rise and dangerous temperatures - 11/20/15

Study reveals urban smoke absorbs sunlight, exacerbating climate warming - 9/30/15

Large trees—key climate influencers—die first in drought - 9/29/15

Los Alamos to team with Procter & Gamble in clean energy manufacturing initiative - 9/17/15

Northern New Mexican pueblo preserves cultural history through tours with the Laboratory - 8/24/15

Unique environmental remediation project on steep canyon successfully completed - 7/29/15

Los Alamos National Laboratory sponsors 19th annual Hazmat Challenge - 7/23/15

Seven federally protected Mexican spotted owl chicks hatch on Los Alamos National Laboratory property - 7/13/15

Geological Society of America selects Los Alamos scientist Claudia Mora as president elect - 7/9/15

Analyzing ocean mixing reveals insight on climate - 6/24/15

Global samples from nuclear contamination sites reveal unpredicted uranium and plutonium behavior - 6/15/15

Drought-induced tree mortality accelerating in forests - 5/19/15

Los Alamos Lab to perform slope-side cleanup near Smith’s Marketplace - 5/1/15

Los Alamos National Laboratory recognizes employee teams with 2015 Pollution Prevention Awards - 4/22/15

Multi-institutional project to study climate change’s effect on tropical forests - 4/1/15

Los Alamos computer simulation improves offshore drill rig safety - 3/24/15

NNSA honors Los Alamos in 2014 Sustainability Awards - 12/3/14

Earthquake triggering discussed in three Frontiers in Science lectures - 11/6/14

Team advances understanding of the Greenland Ice Sheet’s meltwater channels - 10/1/14

Climate, Earth system project draws on science powerhouses - 9/25/14

Los Alamos achieves 20-year low on radioactive air emissions - 9/11/14

New exhibit highlights the archaeology, wildlife and climate of Los Alamos - 9/11/14

Scientists uncover combustion mechanism to better predict warming by wildfires - 8/4/14

Desert scientists turn to rainforest for climate answers - 5/30/14

Laboratory researcher Joel Rowland to receive DOE Early Career Award - 5/8/14

Forests and climate change focus of Frontiers in Science lectures - 3/31/14

Rising global temperatures accelerate drought-induced forest mortality - 7/10/13

Wildfires may contribute more to global warming than previously predicted - 7/9/13

Nature climate change features Los Alamos forest research - 2/27/13

Climate change cripples forests - 10/1/12