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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
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
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
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
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
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020
Why arctic soil can go slip-sliding away - 6/7/21
Antarctica remains the wild card for sea-level rise estimates through 2100 - 5/5/21
Machine learning model generates realistic seismic waveforms - 4/22/21
Celebrate Earth Week with Los Alamos National Laboratory - 4/16/21
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
