Fire danger: Moderate
The Laboratory will be closed
Monday, Oct. 11,
in observance of Columbus Day
SLAC deputy director to discuss the future of stockpile stewardship
Sidney Drell, deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, will review the current national science-based stockpile stewardship program at a Director's Colloquium at 8:10 a.m. today in the Administration Building Auditorium.
The talk is open to badge holders only but also will be shown on LABNET. For more information, see the Oct. 4 Newsbulletin.
Lab director testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee
Laboratory Director John Browne testified Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding the Laboratory's responsibility to certify the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile without nuclear testing. Click here for a transcript of that testimony.
Sattelberger named CST Division Director
Al Sattelberger has been named director for the Chemical Science and Technology (CST) Division.
Sattelberger, who has been acting CST director for about a year, leads a recently re-organized division (Adobe Acrobat required) that supports all the Laboratory directorates through a variety of programs in analytical, inorganic, physical, nuclear and environmental chemistry; radiochemistry; geochemistry; separations science; and nuclear physics. The division has about 350 employees.
"Al has been instrumental in helping CST undergo a smooth transition during a time of sudden, rapid change in direction and focus. His proven leadership in this and many other areas over the past several years makes him the ideal person to continue leading CST into a new era of scientific excellence," said Laboratory Director John Browne.
Sattelberger received his doctorate from Indiana University in inorganic chemistry and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Case Western Reserve University before joining the chemisty department faculty at the University of Michigan. He moved to Los Alamos in 1984, working as a staff member in the Isotope and Nuclear Chemistry (INC) Division. His research interests include actinide science, technetium chemistry and catalysis.
Sattelberger has held various leadership positions at the Lab since 1988, including deputy division leader for INC, deputy director and later director for Science and Technology Base (STB) Programs and director for Energy Research (ER) Programs.
"I am very pleased to accept this position. CST is the finest chemistry organization within the DOE complex," said Sattelberger. "With the recent reorganizations, the challenge before the CST management team is to redefine our role within the Laboratory, to work closely with the other directorates on mission objectives and to create new programs for SSR. I am very optimistic about our future."
Ternel N. Martinez
Epidemiologist will review Hanford public health study
Ten years ago, Congress ordered a study of thyroid disease in people exposed as children to radioactive iodine released at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State between 1944 and 1957.
In January 1999, scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle released the results of the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study, finding no evidence of increased thyroid disease as a result of that exposure.
Scott Davis, a public health epidemiologist at the center and the study's principal investigator, will speak about some of the unique aspects of the project and review its principal results at a Director's Colloquium at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday in the Physics Building Auditorium.
The talk is open to the public and also will be broadcast on LABNET.
Davis received undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry from the University of New Mexico in 1972 and worked as an electron microprobe operator for the Analytical Chemistry group at Los Alamos in 1973-74. He received his doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Washington in 1980.
The Hanford study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control, identified 5,199 individuals born from 1940 through 1946 to mothers who lived in seven counties in eastern and north-central Washington. Nearly 3,500 of these people were interviewed and given physical examinations and medical record reviews. Radiation doses were estimated from data on participants' residence and dietary history.
The study was conducted with extensive peer review and public involvement. The CDC will follow the progress of the study population for any future thyroid abnormalities.
--Kay Roybal
All wet for the United Way
Business Operations Division (BUS) Director Allan Johnston,
shown left to right, took the plunge Thursday for United Way of
Northern New Mexico outside the SM 30 Warehouse. Johnston and
other BUS managers plummeted into the tank to raise money for
the Laboratory/Northern New Mexico United Way 2000 campaign, which
continues through Nov. 5. For a $5 donation to United Way, BUS
division employees got five chances to deposit a BUS manager into
a tank. There also was food and entertainment. More information
about the Los Alamos and Santa Fe United Way campaigns can be
found at http://www.losalamos.com/unitedway
and http://www.uwsfc.org through
the World Wide Web. Photo by John Bass
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