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June 09 Issue - Employee Monthly Magazine
Welcome students
On behalf of the Laboratory,
I welcome you here
and hope you have a safe
and rewarding experience.
The Laboratory has many
programs and procedures
in place to ensure your
health and safety. Your
mentor is responsible for
working with you to make
sure that you are aware of
the hazards of your work
and the controls required
to protect you. You are responsible for following the
requirements that apply to the work you are assigned,
including completing any required training. Your mentor
also should inform you of the requirements for reporting
any problems, injuries, or illnesses.
An important thing to keep in mind is that if you have
any doubt about your safety, stop what you are doing and
notify your mentor. You also need to be aware that your actions can affect the safety of your coworkers and others,
so integrate safety into everything that you do, including
your commute to and from the workplace.
I encourage you to use the many resources available
to you as a Laboratory employee to keep you safe and
healthy. These include your mentor, your worker safety
and security team representative, deployed Industrial
Hygiene and Safety personnel, and Occupational Medicine.
They can provide you with general information
or information specific to the work that you have been
assigned. If you don’t know who to call, you can call
the Safety Hotline at 5-SAFE (7233) or send an e-mail to
safety@lanl.gov.
I sincerely hope that you enjoy your experience here at
the Laboratory and that you leave here with some valuable
knowledge and skills, including safety skills, that you
can apply in your future endeavors.
--Chris Cantwell, associate director for Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality
Plesko lauded for Outstanding Paper
Catherine Plesko won an Outstanding Student Paper
Award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
in San Francisco. Plesko’s paper was recognized among
the best of a strong group of student presenters.
Plesko studied the formation of large-impact craters on
Mars using high-performance computers and the Crestone
RAGE hydrodynamics code at LANL. The study addressed
how asteroid or comet impacts may have warmed the
Martian climate and altered the nearby landscape. Substantial
evidence exists that liquid water was once present
on the surface of Mars at a time when the sun was too
faint to make the planet surface warm enough. Large-object impacts may have
triggered Martian climate change early on. Plesko and her scientific collaborators
modeled the impacts on the Martian surface as it was believed to have
existed 3.5 billion years ago.
The award-winning paper is the basis for Plesko’s doctoral dissertation at the
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Plesko came to the Lab in 1997 as an Earthwatch Challenge Award student. After
doing periodic summer research at the Lab, Plesko, along with her colleagues
and advisor, received a minigrant from the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics to study large-impact collisions. Plesko has been a graduate research
assistant in Applied Physics Division since 2007 and will defend her thesis soon
at UC Santa Cruz.
Rosev paper wins social
science award
Tatjana K.
Rosev of the
Communications
Office
recently won
Top Graduate
Paper for
her research
“Reaching
for the Stars:
Acculturative
Experiences of German Sojourners on
a Southwestern Air Force Base.” She
received a certificate and $500 at the
2009 Western Social Science Association
conference in Albuquerque.
Rosev, who holds a German graduate
degree in law, completed her master’s
degree in communication at the University
of New Mexico while working
at the Lab and was named valedictorian
of her class. This fall she will
begin her doctorate in communication
at UNM.
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