Lab sees rise in requests for radiation scans after WIPP accident
CARLSBAD >> A Carlsbad lab that tests for radioactive contamination has received in the past week as many requests for appointments as it normally does in six months. The recent discovery of radiation escaping from the nearby radioactive waste storage facility has some residents looking with interest toward the monitoring center where free body scans...Continue Reading »CEMRC Detects Trace Amounts of Radioactive Particles at Air Sampling Station Near WIPP Facility
Scientists at the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC), an entity of New Mexico State University, have detected trace amounts of the radioactive isotopes Americium (241Am) and Plutonium (239+240Pu) on an air filter from an ambient air sampling station located approximately 0.6 of a mile northwest of the WIPP site on the WIPP Access...Continue Reading »NMSU research center in Carlsbad monitors environmental effects of nuclear facility
LAS CRUCES >> New Mexico State University’s College of Engineering has a unit in Carlsbad whose mission is to conduct an independent program to monitor people and the environment for exposure to radioactive materials. The facility, called the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, also studies the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, commonly know as the...Continue Reading »Research center keeps tabs on radiation levels of WIPP employees, neighbors
From the Current-Argus, Carlsbad (2/17/2013) — It may look like a torture chamber at first glance, but a step inside the mysterious cast iron room at the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center tells more of the story. Adrianne Navarette and Jennifer Lemons are research scientists at CEMRC, where they frequently perform radiation tests, called...Continue Reading »Two years after Fukushima: Carlsbad radiation center helped monitor US for nuclear fallout
From the Current-Argus, Carlsbad (3/12/2013) — Two years ago this week, the world watched in horror as a massive earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter Scale hit Japan, followed by a tsunami on the country’s east coast, killing thousands of people. While the loss of life and property was tremendous, it could have been far...Continue Reading »CEMRC Gets New Organic Chemistry Department Head
“On behalf of CEMRC, I am pleased that Dr. Srirama has accepted this position and look forward to working with him to grow and enhance the OC and EC departments in the future.” – CEMRC Director Russell Hardy On January 1, 2013, Praveen Srirama was promoted as the manager of the Organic and Environmental Chemistry...Continue Reading »Experts: Radiation from Japan unlikely to affect Carlsbad
By Matlin Smith Current-Argus Staff Writer CARLSBAD – Local radio chemists from the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center assure the Carlsbad public that radiation from Japan will not affect the city as long as current conditions remain the same overseas. ” We will eventually see litt le spikes” said Dr. George Mulholland. the interim...Continue Reading »Carlsbad Scientist off to Austria for international atomic energy conference
CARLSBAD — Carlsbad scientist Dr. Punam Thakur has been invited to attend an exclusive consultancy meeting in Vienna, Austria, in September. Thakur, a radio chemist with the Carlsbad Environ-mental Monitoring and Research Center in Carlsbad, received her invitation last week to provide her expertise and participate in an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting on the...Continue Reading »Hardy leaving NMSU-C helm
From the Current-Argus, CARLSBAD — The president at New Mexico State University’s Carlsbad campus is changing jobs at the end of this year. Effective Jan. 1, Russell Hardy will become director of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center. In his new position, Hardy will lead the NMSU partnership with Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia...Continue Reading »