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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

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
High-tech tool predicts fire behavior in bark beetle-ravaged forests - 8/9/12
Manvendra Dubey selected as Fulbright-Nehru Fellow - 5/15/12
LANL installs additional protective measures - 7/20/11
LANL completes high-priority flood and erosion control work - 7/11/11
Preliminary study assesses potential impact of seismic event at Los Alamos - 4/15/11
Dry lake reveals evidence of Southwestern ‘megadroughts’ - 2/28/11







