Podcasts about naval research laboratory

The Naval Research Laboratory's PROTEUS program is a cutting-edge maritime domain awareness system designed to provide near-real-time global maritime situational awareness for agencies and partners. The program integrates multi-source data ingestion and fusion services to identify, query and filter maritime vessels based on user-defined criteria. During Sea-Air-Space 2025, Alan Hope, head of the NRL's mission development branch, spoke to GovCIO Media & Research about how Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration and other agencies are using PROTEUS to fulfill their mission. Hope says that PROTEUS is crucial assist to human analysts at agencies, using AI to sift through vast datasets to highlight potential threats and anomalies, which allows experts to focus on validation and decision-making rather than raw data interpretation. Hope also talks about the PROTEUS user experience, highlighting the cloud-based, easily accessible workbench that provides real-time updates and historical data for in-depth analysis, fostering collaboration among users across different agencies and locations.

Today, Kevin and I meet with the TheTERP RAPTOR team at the University of Maryland who are  leading an ambitious mission. What started as a class project has rapidly grown into a multi-institutional collaboration, bringing together researchers from UMD, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks to design and launch a 12U CubeSat for ahigh-speed flyby of the asteroid Apophis.  Their goal? To image Apophis, analyze its surface, and send ground-breaking data back to Earth. Guided by aerospace engineering professor Brent Barbee, the UMD team includes Adrienne, Kruti, Chinthan, Sean, Rahul, Ryan, and Cameron, a diverse group of Masters and PHD students. Their expertise spans orbital determination, machine learning, radio communications, and structures and mechanical modeling, and their prior experience includes work at NASA, Naval ResearchLaboratory, the FDA, ExoAnalytic Solutions, and UMD's Balloon Payload Program.  We are excited to learn more about how their student-led initiative evolved into a full-scalespace mission and we know you will be just as  inspired as we are by this amazing team.

Natalie Rainer, J.D., M.P.H. is a Partner and a Member of K&L Gates LLP's Health Care and FDA practice. She focuses her practice primarily in the food and beverage industry. Natalie practices food and drug law, advising clients on regulatory requirements for foods, dietary supplements, cosmetics, and food and drug packaging in jurisdictions around the world, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Natalie has in-depth experience in evaluating the regulatory status of food additives, color additives, and food contact materials. She counsels companies on advertising and labeling requirements, including claim substantiation, nutrition labeling, menu labeling, and environmental claims. She also provides guidance regarding compliance with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations, including the Bioengineered Labeling rules, organic rules, and regulations related to additives in meat and poultry products. Natalie holds a J.D. from Georgetown University, an M.P.H. degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a B.A. degree from the University of California–Berkeley. Peter Coneski, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientific Advisor in K&L Gates LLP's Health Care and FDA practice. He provides technical assistance in evaluating the regulatory compliance of food additives and food contact materials in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. He also develops strategic testing plans and protocols for analytical data acquisition that support industry filings to regulatory agencies globally. In addition to his work related to food additives and food packaging materials, Peter advises clients on global sustainability initiatives, Extended Producer Responsibility schemes, and compliance with emerging legislations impacting companies operating in a global marketplace. Peter also has an extensive research background, authoring numerous peer-reviewed publications and holding several patents related to his work. He was granted an American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Fellowship at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, where he focused on the development and characterization of novel, high-performance polymeric and composite materials. While earning his Ph.D., he developed absorbable and persistent polymer with enhanced biocompatibility for use as implantable biomaterials.  Peter holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.S. degree from Clarkson University. In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Ms. Rainer and Dr. Coneski [30:07] about: The growing understanding of the health effects of dietary exposure to chemicals migrating from packaging to food How concerns about chemical contaminants and environmental contaminants are shaping food safety policy and regulations Technical challenges producers face when attempting to reduce chemical usage in food packaging Impacts on the sustainability and composability of packaging stemming from producers' efforts to adapt to regulatory developments and shifting attitudes about chemicals in packaging How the federal government is reacting to emerging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs that vary by state The challenge that producers face in assuring the quality and safety of packaged food while maintaining compliance with regulations and adhering to various state EPR requirements The wave of state legislative efforts to regulate food chemicals following the California Food Safety Act, and how an emerging patchwork of state regulations could impact processors' ability to meet regulatory requirements for all markets Whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) enhanced, systematic process for the post-market safety assessment of chemicals in food could lead to better state-federal cooperation on food chemical regulation Thoughts on the prioritization of food chemical safety under FDA's reorganized Human Foods Program and whether it will be successful in the near-term and long-term, in light of the new presidential administration. News and Resources News FDA, CDC Ordered to Temporarily Pause All External Communications, Obtain Trump Admin Approval [4:32] USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong Dismissed by Trump Administration [6:41] Dr. Sara Brenner Appointed FDA Acting Commissioner as Trump Nominee Awaits Senate Confirmation [7:31] Scientists Seek to Develop Improved Tests for Norovirus, Hepatitis A on Berries, Leafy Greens [16:47] FAO/WHO Developing Risk Assessment Models for Listeria in Four Food Commodity Groups [20:37] EU Regulation Limits PFAS in Food Packaging, Bans Single-Use Plastic Packaging for Produce [25:07] Resources The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) Furlough We Want to Hear from You! Please send us your questions and suggestions to podcast@food-safety.com

Robots can flip your hamburger or weld together your car. Now they can operate in a vacuum, fixing satellites in orbit. That's thanks to a program funded by DARPA and carried out by the Naval Research Laboratory. The result is a machine ready for a commercial launch to take into space. Here with the details, the acting director of the Naval Center for Space Technology, Bernie Kelm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Robots can flip your hamburger or weld together your car. Now they can operate in a vacuum, fixing satellites in orbit. That's thanks to a program funded by DARPA and carried out by the Naval Research Laboratory. The result is a machine ready for a commercial launch to take into space. Here with the details, the acting director of the Naval Center for Space Technology, Bernie Kelm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Astronomy Daily - the Podcast: S03E207Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your ultimate source for the latest in space and Astronomy news. I'm your host, Anna, and today we have a captivating array of stories that delve into the mysteries of the universe and the cutting-edge advancements in space technology.Highlights:- Challenging Einstein's Theories: Explore groundbreaking research from the Universities of Geneva and Toulouse that tests the limits of Einstein's theories. Discover how data from the Dark Energy Survey reveals gravitational effects that deviate from Einstein's predictions, especially during the universe's accelerated expansion phase.- Space Travel and Human Aging: Uncover new insights into how spaceflight accelerates biological aging processes. Learn about the parallels between the effects of space travel on astronauts and the natural aging process on Earth, and the implications for future space exploration and healthcare.- Advancements in Satellite Servicing: Delve into Northrop Grumman's upcoming Mission Robotic Vehicle launch in 2026, featuring robotic arms developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Understand how this technology will revolutionize satellite maintenance and extend the operational life of geostationary satellites.- NASA's Artificial Clouds Experiment: Witness NASA's stunning experiment in Norway's auroral skies, creating artificial clouds to study atmospheric dynamics. Learn how this experiment illuminates the complex interactions in the turbopause region and its significance for space weather research.- Fireball Over North America: Relive the spectacular sight of a fireball lighting up the skies over North America, captured by both ground-based observers and NOAA satellites. Understand the science behind these brilliant meteor events and their cosmic origins.- NASA's Tracers Mission Update: Get the latest on NASA's Tracers mission as it completes its twin spacecraft, aiming to study magnetic reconnection and space weather phenomena. Discover how this mission will enhance our understanding of the sun-Earth interaction.- Large Magellanic Cloud's Galactic Encounter: Explore the survival story of the Large Magellanic Cloud as it navigates a close encounter with the Milky Way. Learn how Hubble's observations reveal the effects of ram pressure stripping on this dwarf galaxy's gaseous halo.For more cosmic updates, visit our website at astronomydaily.io. Sign up for our free Daily newsletter to stay informed on all things space. Join our community on social media by searching for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, and TikTok. Share your thoughts and connect with fellow space enthusiasts.Thank you for tuning in. This is Anna signing off. Until next time, keep looking up and stay curious about the wonders of our universe.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast--5648921/support.

Send us a textDr. Leonard Tender, Ph.D. is a Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office at DARPA ( https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-leonard-tender ) where his research interests include developing new methods for user-defined control of biological processes, and climate and supply chain resilience.Prior to coming to DARPA, Dr. Tender was a principal investigator and led the Laboratory for Molecular Interfaces in the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. There, among other accomplishments, he facilitated numerous international collaborations with key external stakeholders in academia, industry, and government and his highly interdisciplinary research team, comprised of electrochemists, microbiologists, and engineers, is widely recognized for its many contributions to the field of microbial electrochemistry.Dr. Tender earned a doctorate degree in analytical chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley; and served as a visiting scientist in the Stanford University Department of Chemistry. Dr. Tender co-founded the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology and is a recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award, which honors outstanding federal employees, by the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.#Darpa #Biomanufacturing #QuantumBiology #QuantumComputing  #NavalResearchLaboratory #MicrobialElectrochemistry #DefenseAdvancedResearchProjectsAgency #Bioelectronics #TissueRegeneration #UnderseaEnergy #BreathableArmors #EdibleMacronutrients #Lubricants #Adhesives #TacticalFibers #PotableWater #Plastic #OrbitalManufacturing #Extremophiles #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #ViralPodcast #STEM #Innovation #Technology #Science #ResearchSupport the show

Dr. David Peterson, meteorologist with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of the Brains and Machines podcast, Dr. Sunny Bains and Dr. Giulia D'Angelo talk to four early career researchers: Dr. Kenneth Stewart, a computer scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC; Dr. Laura Kriener, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Bern in Switzerland; Jens Pedersen, a Ph.D. student at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden; and Dr. Fabrizio Ottati, an AI/ML computer architect at NXP Semiconductors in Hamburg, Germany. They discuss learning rules for spiking neural networks, primitives for computations on neuromorphic hardware, and the benefits and drawbacks of neuromorphic engineering. 

Captain (ret) Dr. Gurpartap "GP" Sandhoo, Ph.D. is Director, Emerging Technologies and Architectures - Space Sector at Northrop Grumman ( https://www.northropgrumman.com/space ), where he is focused on leveraging new and emerging technologies and manufacturing process to shape the future of civil and national security space. Dr. Sandhoo previously served at the Defense Innovation Unit ( DIU - https://www.diu.mil/ ) at the Pentagon, a United States Department of Defense organization founded to help the U.S. military make faster use of emerging commercial technologies, supporting that organization's space portfolio, focused on operationalizing commercial space technologies for national security space. He also served as Deputy Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity ( IARPA - https://www.iarpa.gov/ ) support the director in the day-to-day management of the organization, and execution of the diverse portfolio of high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of the Intelligence Community. Dr. Sandhoo previously occupied the Distinguished Visiting Professor Robert A. Heinlein Endowed Chair in Astronautics at the U.S. Naval Academy. At the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, he headed the Spacecraft Engineering Division, and was also the acting director of the Naval Center of Space Technology. He provided executive direction and technical leadership in conducting research of space systems with advanced technologies. He was also a flight controller at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and was a research & development engineer at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as in industry. Since 1986, until recently retiring from public service, Dr. Sandhoo served in uniform in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy and as a Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an Engineering Duty Officer. He holds a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, Master's from the U.S. Naval War College, a Master's and a Doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics from George Washington University, and is a MIT Seminar XXI fellow. Support the Show.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. is Owner of Nonlinear Solutions LLC., an advisory group that provides strategic scientific and intelligence consulting services, with a focus on emerging science and technology trends, to clients in both the defense and intelligence communities. Dr. Kirkpatrick recently retired from federal Senior Service in December 2023 and prior to his current responsibilities he answered to the Deputy Secretary of Defense to stand-up and lead the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office ( AARO - https://www.aaro.mil/ ) in early 2022, leading the U.S. government's efforts to address Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using a rigorous scientific framework and a data-driven approach. Dr. Kirkpatrick attended University of Georgia as an undergraduate, to study physics, where he also did his Ph.D. work in nonlinear and nonequilibrium phonon dynamics of rare earth doped fluoride crystals, and currently serves as an adjunct professor at UGA. Dr. Kirkpatrick began his career in Defense and Intelligence related science and technology immediately out of graduate school. After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics in 1995, he subsequently took a postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, investigating laser-induced molecular vibrations of high explosives under an AFOSR program. In 1996, he was offered a National Research Council Fellowship at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. investigating novel solid-state lasers for the Department of the Navy. In 1997, he was recruited by the Air Force Research Laboratory to build an Ultrafast Laser Physics Lab to investigate nonlinear optics, novel ultrafast spectroscopic methods, and nonlinear micro/nano-fabrication techniques for the Air Force. In 2003, Dr. Kirkpatrick was offered a program manager position in the National Reconnaissance Office and converted to CIA in 2005. In 2007, he was assigned as Chief Technology Officer in a joint CIA-DIA program office, where he later became division chief as a DIA officer. In 2010 he was asked to serve as the space control portfolio manager for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Space and Intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 2012, Dr. Kirkpatrick returned to DIA and served as the Defense Intelligence Officer for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, serving as the Department of Defense's counterpart to the National Intelligence Manager for Science and Technology until 2016. Towards the end of his tenure as DIO/S&TI, Dr. Kirkpatrick served on special assignment to the Principal Deputy Director National Intelligence leading the Intelligence Community's support to the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (now the National Space Defense Center). From 2016 onwards, Dr. Kirkpatrick served in a variety of no-fail roles including Deputy Director of Intelligence, US Strategic Command; Director, National Security Strategy, National Security Council; Deputy Director of Intelligence and the DNI Representative for USSPACECOM. The USSPACECOM Intelligence Enterprise was the fifth organization he has been the IC lead for establishment, with AARO being the sixth “new start” he's led. Dr. Kirkpatrick is the recipient of several scientific, military, and intelligence awards. These include the Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal, four National Intelligence Collaboration medallions, the NRO Innovation and Achievement Award, the Cleary Award for Scientific Excellence, and the DIA Director's Award for Excellence. Dr. Kirkpatrick holds 2 open patents and has contributed to several scientific books on nonlinear phenomena as well as written multiple strategies for the National and Defense Intelligence Communities. He was appointed to the Senior Service in 2012. Support the show

As private and government interest in nuclear fusion technology grows, an array of startups have arisen to take on the challenge, each with their own unique approach. Among them: LaserFusionX. Today on Faster, Please!—The Podcast, I talk with CEO Stephen Obenschain about the viability of fusion energy, and what sets his approach apart.Obenschain is the president of LaserFusionX. He was formerly head of the Plasma Physics Division branch at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.In This Episode* Viability of commercial fusion (0:58)* The LaserFusionX approach (7:54)* Funding the project (10:28)* The vision (12:52)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversationViability of commercial fusion (0:58)Pethokoukis: Steve, welcome to the podcast.Obenschain: Okay, I'm glad to talk with you. I understand you're very interested in high-tech future power sources, not so high tech right now are windmills…Well, I guess they're trying to make those more high tech, as well. I recall that when the Energy Department, the National Ignition Laboratory [NIF], they had the—I guess that's over about maybe 15 months ago—and they said they had achieved a net gain nuclear fusion, using lasers, and the energy secretary made an announcement and it was a big deal because we had never done that before by any means. But I remember very specifically people were saying, “Listen, it's a great achievement that we've done this, but using lasers is not a path to creating a commercial nuclear reactor.” I remember that seemed to be on the news all the time. But yet you are running a company that wants to use lasers to create a commercial fusion reactor. One, did I get that right, and what are you doing to get lasers to be able to do that?I don't know why people would come to that conclusion. I think we are competitive with the other approaches, which is magnetic fusion, where you use magnetic fields to confine a plasma and get to fusion temperatures. The federal government has supported laser fusion since about 1972, starting with the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission]. Originally it was an energy program, but it has migrated to being in support stockpiled stewardship because, with laser fusion, you can reach physics parameters similar to what occur in thermonuclear weapons.Yeah. So that facility is about nuclear weapons testing research, not creating a reactor—a fusion reactor.Yeah. All that being said, it does advance the physics of laser fusion energy, and what the National Ignition Facility did is got so-called ignition, where the fuel started a self-sustaining reaction where it was heating itself and increasing the amount of fusion energy. However, the gain was about three, and one of the reasons for that is they use so-called indirect drive, where the laser comes in, heats a small gold can, and the X-rays from that then that drive the pellet implosion, which means you lose about a factor of five in the efficiency. So it's limited gain you get that way.Your way is different. It sort of cuts out the middleman.Okay. The better way to go—which, we're not the only ones to do this—is direct drive, where the laser uniformly illuminates the target at the time that Livermore got started with indirect drive, we didn't have the technologies to uniformly illuminate a pellet. First at NRL [Naval Research Laboratories], and then later at University of Rochester in Japan, they developed techniques to uniformly illuminate the pellets. The second thing we're doing is using the argon fluoride laser. The argon fluoride laser has been used in lithography for many years because it's deep UV.The unique thing we have been trying to do—this was when I was supervising the program at the Naval Research Laboratory—was to take it up to high energy. We started years ago with a similar Krypton fluoride laser, built the largest operating target shooter with that technology, demonstrated the high repetition rate operation that you need for energy and NIF will shoot a few times a day—you need five to 10 shots per second to do a power plant—demonstrated that on a krypton fluoride laser, and, more recently, we switched to the focus to argon fluoride, which is deeper UV and more efficient than the Krypton  fluoride. And that basically—at NRL when I was supervising it—reached the energy record for that technology. But we've got a long ways to go to get it to the high energy needed for a power plant.Now, what the immediate goal of my company is to get the funds and to build a beam line of argon fluoride that would have the energy and performance needed for a power plant. One of the advantages to laser fusion: you want have a situation where I'm building more than one of something, so for an implosion facility, you have many beam lines, so you build one and then you have the advantage of building more, and a learning curve as you go toward a power plant. We developed a phase program where first we build the beamline, then we build a NIF-like implosion facility only operating with the argon fluoride, demonstrate the high gain—which is a hundred plus for a power plant—and then, after doing that, do the physics in parallel, develop the other technology you need, like low-cost targets. (They can't be expensive. The NIF targets are probably tens of thousands. We can't spend that.) We're going 10 shots per second. All the technologies required for a pilot power plant build a pilot power plant, which, in my view could be maybe 400 megawatts electricity. However, its main function would be to develop the procedures, test the components, and so forth for the follow-on, mass-produced power plants. So one, when you build a pilot power plant, you want to operate it for a few years to get the kinks out before going to mass production. The vision is to go from the beginning of that to the end in about 16 years.So the challenges are you have to generate enough heat, and you have to be able to do this over, and over, and over again.Right. That's right. It has to be high reliability. For an implosion facility, a hundred-thousand-shot reliability is okay. For a power plant, it's got to be in the billion-shot class.And at this point, the reason you think this is doable is what?I think we have confidence in the pellet designs. I have a lot, and I have colleagues that have a lot of experience with building large excimer systems: KrF [Krypton Fluoride Excimer Laser], ArF [Argon Fluoride Excimer Laser]…Those are lasers?Yes. And we have credible conceptual designs for the facility.There's a lot of companies right now, and startups, with different approaches. I would assume you think this is the most viable approach, or has some other advantages over some of the other things we're seeing with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which gets mentioned a lot, which is using a different approach. So is the advantage you think it's easier to get to a reactor? What are the advantages of this path?The LaserFusionX approach (7:54)Well, for one, it's different. It's different challenges from the Commonwealth Fusion Systems. There is overlap, and there should be collaboration. For example, you have to, theirs is also deuterium-tritium. However, the physics challenges are different. I think we're farther along in laser fusion to be able—it's a simpler situation than you have. It's very complex interactions in tokamak, and you also have things… have you ever heard of a disruption? Basically it's where all of the magnetic energy all of a sudden goes to the wall, and if you have something like what Commonwealth Fusion Systems—they've got to be careful they don't get that. If they do, it would blow a hole in the wall. We don't have that problem with laser fusion. I think we're further along in understanding the physics. Actually, the National Ignition Facility is ahead of the highest fusion gains they've gotten in facilities. I think that they're somewhere just below one or so with the jet. They're up at one and a half. To what extent are the challenges of physics and science, and to what extent are the challenges engineering?Well, the physics has to guide the precision you have on the laser. And I won't say we're 100 percent done in the physics, but we're far enough along to say, okay. That's one reason where I envision building an implosion facility before the pilot power plant so we can test the codes and get all the kinks out of that. Nothing's easy. You have to get the cost of the targets down. The laser, okay, we've demonstrated, for example, at NRL—And NRL is…?Naval Research Laboratory.Naval Research Lab, right.A hundred-shot operation of the KrF laser. We use spark gap for that. We need to go to solid state pulse power, got up to 10 million shots. We need to get from there to a billion shots. And some of that is just simply improving the components. It's straightforward, but you've got to put time into it. I think you need really smart people doing this, that are creative—not too creative, but where you need to be creative, you are creative, and I think if, basically, if you can get the support, for example, to build (a beam line is somewhere around a hundred million dollars). To build the implosion facility and pilot power plant, you're getting into the billion shot, billion dollar class and you have to get those resources and be sure enough that, okay, if the investors put this money in, they're going to get a return on it.Funding the project (10:28)I think people who are investing in this sector, I would assume they may be more familiar with some of the other approaches, so what is the level of investor interest and what is the level of Department of Energy interest?Well, one of the challenges is that, historically, the Department of Energy has put money into two pots. One, laser fusion for stockpile stewardship, and magnetic fusion for energy. That's starting to change, but they don't have a lot of money involved yet, to put money into laser fusion or inertial fusion energy. And one of my challenges is not that the companies are aware of magnetic fusion, they don't understand the challenges of that, or laser fusion, or what's a good idea and a bad idea. And like Commonwealth Fusion systems I think has a good technical basis. If you go the next one down to Helion Energy, they're claiming they can burn helium three made from deuterium interactions, which violates textbook physics, so I'm very… I wonder about that.Would it surprise you, at the end of the day, that there are multiple paths to a commercial fusion reactor?Oh no. I think there are multiple paths to getting to where I get fusion burn, and maybe I make electricity. I think ultimately the real challenge for us is: Can we go reasonably fast? At 16 years, I'm considered somewhat slower than others. The ones that are saying five years I think are delusional. The ones that are saying 50 years, or say never, I don't think understand that yeah, we're pretty far along in this.How big, or rather, how small, theoretically, could one of these reactors be? I know there's been talk about using nuclear fusion as a way to provide power for these new data centers that gobble up so much power that they're using AI for. Would this be the kind of reactor that would power a city power, a big factory power, a data center, all of the above?I think you can get down, at least with our approach, to a couple hundred megawatts. However, my own vision is you're probably better off having power stations for some of the nuclear—with these, the big nuclear plants have multiple reactors at one place, and you'd get the advantage, for example, in our case, to just simply have one target factory and so forth. I don't think we're going to be able to compete. I don't know how small modular reactors go—a hundred megawatts or so, I would guess, and probably can't get down there, but one of my own goals is to get the size down as much as possible, but I think we're talking about hundreds of megawatts. The vision (12:52)What's the big vision? Why are you doing this?Why am I doing it?Yeah, what's the vision? What drives you and where do you think this goes over the next two decades?I may have the best route to get there. If I thought one of these other ones were going to get there, no problem… but all of us have challenges, and I think we can get there. I think from a standing start. As far as getting investment, I've just had pre-seed money, I don't have the big bucks yet. I've brought on people that are more experienced than me at extracting money from VCs and investors. (I was told you know a few billionaires.) Basically, for me, I need a few tens of millions to get started—like I'd say, about a hundred million to build the beamline. And then after that… actually I have a conference call on Friday with a representative of the investment bank industry that is very dubious about fusion.I mean, you can understand the skepticism, as a technology. What do they say? “It's the future of energy and always will be.”But the really good thing, I think, about the private investment is that the public investment has been too much focus on big machines which will give you physics, but have pretty much zero chance of being a direct path to fusion energy. You know, $25 billion and I make 500 megawatts thermal, occasionally, and we show that to a power plant executive, they're going to say, “You're kidding me.” We hope to get down cost for the power plants in the few-billion-dollar range.Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

Defense Department leaders are looking at artificial intelligence to augment or automate core functions and processes. For the Navy, this technology can impact critical maritime missions. Dr. Glen Henshaw, senior scientist for autonomous and robotics systems at Naval Research Laboratory, discusses at Sea-Air-Space in National Harbor, Maryland, how the Navy is examining potential use cases for artificial intelligence within robots and other autonomous systems.

Dr. Jason Lee, with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Dr. Susmitha Kotu, with DNV, join our CORROSION journal podcast series to discuss microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC). This episode explains what MIC is and which industries it affects, challenges in predicting and mitigating MIC, new advancements in the field, and areas that need future research.

Dr. Paul Jaffe works as an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory. His work focuses on solar power satellites and power beaming from space. We explore the developments in his research and the applications for solar power beaming. You can learn more at the Naval Research Laboratory's website. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on Twitter and LinkedIn. Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US House Speaker introduces a bill to amend title 51, to extend the learning period for commercial human space flight. The Federal Communications Commission introduces new rules to ensure commercial space launches have the spectrum resources they need for reliable communications. Iridium Communications' CEO says that his company will hit $1 billion in annual service revenue in 2030, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on Twitter and LinkedIn. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Dr. Paul Jaffe, an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory. Learn more about Space Power Beaming on the Naval Research Laboratory's website. Selected Reading To amend title 51, United States Code, to extend the learning period for commercial human space flight.  FCC Ensures Commercial Space Launches Have Reliable Spectrum Resources Iridium Forecasts $1B Service Revenue in 2030, Hints at Narrowband IoT Ambitions- Via Satellite True Anomaly lands $17 million U.S. Space Force contract for Space Domain Awareness- PR Newswire NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates Hong Kong's first high-resolution AI satellite set for November launch- CGTN Chandrayaan-3 Mission- X NASA's Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa  Namibia and South Africa Explore Space Collaboration at 7th AfriGeo Symposium- Space in Africa Luis Zea, space bioengineer: ‘We cannot go to the Moon and Mars only to consume all the resources like on Earth'- El Pais California bill would force large companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions- NBC Tom Hanks Says He'd Clean Space Toilets For The Chance To Be An Astronaut- Huffington Post T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. Navy has a keen interest on the space domain. This is where key technologies like spacecraft and ground-and-control stations play an integral part in passing on intelligence and other information about the world to U.S. military services globally. The Naval Research Laboratory's Naval Center for Space Technology is one of four research directorates, and the focal point and integrator for the lab's technology development used in space systems. Director Steven Meier breaks down some of the history in spacecraft development and how the center is prioritizing emerging areas like artificial intelligence and hypersonics that will advance the defense mission across all domains.

It's the highest-intensity solar power you can get. It's available 24/7. And you can send it anywhere on earth. All you need to do is launch a ten-by-ten kilometer array of solar panels into geosynchronous orbit, capture solar energy, and beam it to earth using a massive antenna array. Then set up a receiver a few kilometers in diameter on earth to collect that power and send it to the grid.  Sound like science fiction? You wouldn't be far off (looking at you, Isaac Asimov). But the reality is that Caltech, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the Japanese Space Agency are all working on the idea. Recent developments in space tech warrant some cautious optimism about space-based solar. Space X has pioneered reusable rockets that have dramatically reduced the cost of launches. And mass production of satellites has brought down the cost of hardware, too. So how would space-based solar actually work? And what would it take to commercialize it? In this episode, Shayle talks to Sanjay Vijendran, lead for the SOLARIS initiative on space-based solar power at the European Space Agency. He argues that space-based solar is much closer to commercialization than nuclear fusion, which garners a lot more attention and funding. They cover topics like: The four main components: the launch, the solar panels, the antenna, and the receiver on earth Where we need additional research, including beaming power at greater distance and scale, plus power beaming safety What it might feel like if you stood under the beam The target launch costs the industry would need to reach for viability Pilot projects happening right now Recommended Resources: The Verge: Space-based solar power is having its moment in the sun Science: Space-based solar power is getting serious—can it solve Earth's energy woes? Canary: Is space-based solar ready for liftoff? Catalyst is a co-production of Post Script Media and Canary Media. Catalyst is supported by Antenna Group. For 25 years, Antenna has partnered with leading clean-economy innovators to build their brands and accelerate business growth. If you're a startup, investor, enterprise, or innovation ecosystem that's creating positive change, Antenna is ready to power your impact. Visit antennagroup.com to learn more. Catalyst is supported by RE+. RE+ is more than just the largest clean energy event, it's a catalyst for industry innovation designed to supercharge business growth in the clean energy economy. Learn more: re-plus.com.

Dr. Brad Ringeisen, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Innovative Genomics Institute ( https://innovativegenomics.org/people/brad-ringeisen/ ), an organization founded by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna, on the University of California, Berkeley campus, whose mission is to bridge revolutionary gene editing tool development to affordable and accessible solutions in human health and climate. Dr. Ringeisen is a physical chemist with a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Wake Forest University, a pioneer in the field of live cell printing, and an experienced administrator of scientific research and product development. Before joining the IGI, Dr. Ringeisen was Director of the Biological Technologies Office at DARPA, where he managed a division working at the cutting edges of biology, physical sciences and engineering. Programs in his office included research in genome editing, epigenetics, neurotechnology, food security and biomanufacturing, as well as diagnostics and therapeutics development. Prior to DARPA, Dr. Ringeisen ran his own research group at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as the head of the Bioenergy and Biofabrication Section where he oversaw diverse research programs including the development and application of laser-assisted printing approaches to biology, development of organs-on-a-chip, microbial energy harvesting and extracellular electron transfer as well as microbial discovery and microbiome characterization. Dr. Ringeisen now uses his amazing expertise to guide IGI's scientific and development strategy, but his duties also include promoting entrepreneurship, working with biotech investors and companies to ensure commercial translation of technologies, donor outreach and development, scientific project development and team building, communication with campus leadership, personnel management and mentoring, program management, and reporting and engagement with both Governance and Scientific Advisory Boards. Support the show

Dr. Julie Pullen is founding partner and chief scientist at Propeller, an early-stage venture fund focused on the intersection of the oceans and climate change. It recently announced that it had raised $100 million for its first fund. Coincidently, today (June 8) is also World Oceans Day, globally recognized by the UN as a day to foster public interest in the protection of the ocean and the sustainable management of its resources.Today's conversation is about the ocean, its critical role in regulating our climate, how humans have been damaging this balance, and what we can do about it. Julie's work is at the intersection of humanity and the oceans, and her expertise spans climate, weather, and hydro science, with a particular focus on high-resolution coastal urban prediction for flooding, heat waves, and other perils.Prior to her role at Propeller, Julie was most recently the climate strategist at Jupiter Intelligence, a startup delivering hyper-local projections of climate impact and business risk. And she's an adjunct research scientist at Columbia's Climate School. She was previously an associate professor in civil, environmental, and ocean engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where she organized field studies globally to improve our understanding and prediction of the Earth's system. And we could go on further about her amazing credentials at the Naval Research Laboratory and more, but let's jump into learning from her about our oceans.In this episode, we cover: [2:39] World Ocean Day activities and awareness[4:22] An overview of Propeller and Julie's work[6:16] The reason behind the firm's ocean focus and its scope[8:00] Propeller's ocean investment categories including,  carbon, organics, and industrials[10:04] Major challenges and concerns with oceans today[13:00] Implications of warming ocean waters[15:43] Transition points in ocean health that could lead to cascading effects[19:09] The role of venture capital in supporting ocean-based solutions[20:53] A brief overview of marine biogeochemistry[22:52] Solutions aimed at ocean carbon sequestration[25:36] Challenges with measurement and verification[28:43] The role of data simulation[34:13] Fisheries and food security solutions[35:40] Alternative proteins on the market[38:44] Julie's time at Jupiter Intelligence[41:32] Emissions reductions as a wedge to drive necessary change for our oceans[43:30] Ocean-specific pledges like 30x30[44:39] The importance of benthic environments and vital ecosystems[45:59] What Julie's excited for in the ocean industrials space[47:53] How people can get informed and involved in ocean preservationGet connected:Dr. Julie Pullen LinkedIn / TwitterCody SimmsMCJ Podcast / Collective*You can also reach us via email at info@mcjcollective.com, where we encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded on June 1, 2023

There's more than meets the eye, when it comes to the representation of robots in popular culture. In TV and movies like "The Terminator," robots have a way of appearing much more advanced and seamless than engineers actually experience behind the scenes. Host Dr. Melinda Lewis joins U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical engineer and Drexel University alumnus Matt Wiese to define what we mean by robots, cyborgs, and androids and to rethink how the media portrays technological advances of this type. Wiese also discusses how his work on Drexel's comedy improv team applies to collaborative work in the robotics field. "Pop, the Question" is a production of Marketing & Media in Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. Recorded February 9, 2023 through virtual conferencing (Philadelphia, PA, USA). Featured Guest: Matt Wiese (Alumnus, Drexel University; Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) Host and Producer: Melinda Lewis, PhD (Director of Strategy, Pennoni Honors College) Dean: Paula Marantz Cohen, PhD Executive Producer: Erica Levi Zelinger (Director, Marketing & Media) Producer: Brian Kantorek (Associate Director, Marketing & Media) Research and Script: Melinda Lewis, PhD Audio Engineering and Editing: Brian Kantorek Original Theme Music: Brian Kantorek Production Assistance: Noah Levine Social Media Outreach: Olivier Jacques Graphic Design: Zale Heller Logo Design: Michal Anderson Additional Voiceover: Malia Lewis The views expressed in this podcast are not necessarily those of Drexel University or Pennoni Honors College. Copyright © 2023 Drexel University

Birds Aren't Real is not merely a wacky conspiracy theory from the internet age or more recently from the social media age. BAR supposedly began in 1976 to bring attention to bird genocide and in 1987 they supposedly ran a television advertisement bringing awareness to the replacement of the dead birds with sophisticated robots that have the ability to spy. But when did the movement actually begin and is that PSA about bird robots old or recently edited? Almost certainly the latter. The modern BAR movement, however, is considered very real by many though others know it is a parody or Parot-y. But here is the odd thing; satire or not, bird populations have been declining rapidly, at least officially, sine the 1950-1970s. The Audubon Society reported in October 2022 on a study conducted by North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) showing how bird populations have been declining steeply for at least 50 years. With an estimate 50-430 billion birds on the planet, and 3 billion dying a year, it is hard to quantify any of this. Birds are killed by cats, cars, windmills, etc. Birds make up an estimated 50% + of all species on planet earth. But here is another odd thing: not only have insects been used as models for robotic drones in the form of cicada-bots, dragonfly-bots, or roboflys, but so have birds. There is the RoboSwift, BionicSwift, PigeonBot, and other less realistic designs. Now taxidermies birds are literally been turned into cyborg/cybirds with the addition of mechanics like cameras and microphones. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is behind the CICADA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is behind insect-sized micro drones in general. Whether real or satire to bring attention to either conspiracy theories online or environmentalism, robotic birds are not needed to spy on you or nature. There are plenty of devices and ways to do that without the need for a taxidermy cy-bird.

Can robots teach themselves new tricks? In theory they can, according to researchers at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory. In a new white paper, they lay out how robots, like people, can learn by using a curriculum and a learning agenda. To learn how they will test that theory, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with research scientists Laura Hiatt and Mark Roberts from the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

We are excited to share today's episode featuring Joseph Sigelman, Chairman and CEO of Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company (AG&P). Joe and his team focus on downstream LNG import and distribution, engineering and construction across Southeast Asia, stretching from India to the Philippines. He joined us from Jakarta and we were thrilled to visit with him about everything he and his company have been seeing during his eleven plus years at AG&P. As you will hear, the "on the ground, energy transition trends" in this vital part of the world are fascinating. In our conversation, Joe kicked us off with key background details on the company and their main goal to bring clean energy to developing markets along with jobs and industrial growth. We then touch on the company's build-out process, their experience in India, the company's team and size, their effects on the health and welfare of local communities, the acceleration of the business from 2021 to today, future markets, developing infrastructure with regulatory frameworks in different countries, and much more. In one of the more compelling moments, we discuss with Joe "what ESG is really all about" and why bringing more natural gas to the developing world isn't more commonly part of that discussion. Joe is on the frontline of a changing and growing world where "energy transition" can have a more profound meaning - in this instance, going from polluting and not enough to clean and reliable. We hope you enjoy the discussion with Joe as much as we did. In our upfront discussion, Mike Bradley shared bond, commodity and equity performance from the past week noting that lower than expected CPI and PPI prints pushed bond yields lower and equities higher. He also discussed the many macro factors that will influence crude oil prices into year end and by highlighted several topical events including unconfirmed reports that Russian missiles had crossed into Poland, the potential fallout from a new divided Congress, the FTX crypto bankruptcy web, and the lack of real substance coming from the COP 27 conference. His slide from today's session is available linked here. Colin Fenton flagged a notable public disclosure from a just-completed secret space mission. This past weekend, the U.S. X37B spaceplane landed after a record 908 days in orbit. While aloft, it conducted experiments for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, in which unimpeded solar energy was collected in space, converted into microwaves, and transmitted to ground receivers. Colin also noted the human population has crossed the 8-billion-person threshold for the first time in history, and he shared some observations about how gold is catching a strong bid following the FTX debacle in the crypto space. 

The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. Their remarkable observation two days after last month's planetary defense test was recently released at the National Science Foundation lab in Arizona. The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) long, consisting of dust and other material spewed from the impact crater. This plume is accelerating away from the harmless asteroid, in large part, because of pressure on it from solar radiation, said Matthew Knight of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, who made the observation along with Lowell Observatory's Teddy Kareta using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope. Scientists expect the tail to get even longer and disperse even more, becoming so tenuous at one point that it's undetectable. “At that point, the material will be like any other dust floating around the solar system,” Knight said in an email. More observations are planned to determine how much and what kind of material was hurled from the 525-foot (160-meter) Dimorphos, a moonlet of a larger asteroid. Launched nearly a year ago, NASA's Dart spacecraft was destroyed in the head-on collision. The $325 million mission to deflect an asteroid's orbit was intended as a dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock heads our way. Dimorphos and its companion rock never posed a threat to Earth and still do not, according to NASA. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

D.M. Blakey is a writer, teacher, artist and inventor. He created visual effects and animation for film and television at Walt Disney Animation Studios and other production studios for thirty years. He received a prime-time television Emmy for the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His work can be seen in movies such as Iron Man III, Tron: Legacy, 2012, Into The Storm, Disney's Dinosaur and Home On The Range, Dante's Peak, Apollo 13 and The Fifth Element. He was also chair of online animation and visual effects graduate students and an instructor for eight years at an art university. He animated the Galileo Spacecraft for NASA/JPL on a room sized mini-supercomputer, and created a scientific software center for the Naval Research Laboratory. He was a full-time inventor creating machine and software inventions from advanced lossless and lossy compression algorithms, animation registration, binaural underwater whale audio recording hydrophone hardware and a couple other advanced projects. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a degree in experimental film graphics while learning to solder since the age of seven and growing up a kid of science who liked early tube-type lasers, radio, telephones, and xray machines. In addition to his interests in art and science, he has a teaching certificate in the Chinese internal arts of Xing Yi and standing meditation. He has twenty years of experience exploring clear channelings in the L.A. metaphysics community while learning with help from channels to receive three messages for his first book. These messages are about appreciating what is unique in each person and ending racial, gender, class and other ways we separate ourselves from an understanding of being of one thought to evolve all together in our future toward pure consciousness. Dennis enjoys sifting through metaphysical ideas with a skeptical scientific mind who loves to build and solder, but is also open to persistent loving ideas from beyond that he can personally verify. He loves animals and Nature. He has ridden dressage with soulful horses and rode a motorcycle. He learned both will go where one looks but horses have the sense to correct the rider. He's worked on diesel locomotives for a railway museum restoration and is a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association as well as Association of Computing Machinery Computer Graphics Pioneers.

D.M. Blakey is a writer, teacher, artist and inventor. He created visual effects and animation for film and television at Walt Disney Animation Studios and other production studios for thirty years. He received a prime-time television Emmy for the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His work can be seen in movies such as Iron Man III, Tron: Legacy, 2012, Into The Storm, Disney's Dinosaur and Home On The Range, Dante's Peak, Apollo 13 and The Fifth Element. He was also chair of online animation and visual effects graduate students and an instructor for eight years at an art university. He animated the Galileo Spacecraft for NASA/JPL on a room sized mini-supercomputer, and created a scientific software center for the Naval Research Laboratory. He was a full-time inventor creating machine and software inventions from advanced lossless and lossy compression algorithms, animation registration, binaural underwater whale audio recording hydrophone hardware and a couple other advanced projects. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a degree in experimental film graphics while learning to solder since the age of seven and growing up a kid of science who liked early tube-type lasers, radio, telephones, and xray machines. In addition to his interests in art and science, he has a teaching certificate in the Chinese internal arts of Xing Yi and standing meditation. He has twenty years of experience exploring clear channelings in the L.A. metaphysics community while learning with help from channels to receive three messages for his first book. These messages are about appreciating what is unique in each person and ending racial, gender, class and other ways we separate ourselves from an understanding of being of one thought to evolve all together in our future toward pure consciousness. Dennis enjoys sifting through metaphysical ideas with a skeptical scientific mind who loves to build and solder, but is also open to persistent loving ideas from beyond that he can personally verify. He loves animals and Nature. He has ridden dressage with soulful horses and rode a motorcycle. He learned both will go where one looks but horses have the sense to correct the rider. He's worked on diesel locomotives for a railway museum restoration and is a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association as well as Association of Computing Machinery Computer Graphics Pioneers.

You might not think of the Navy as being in the space business. Yet the Naval Research Laboratory has a mission that spans pretty much every domain from underwater to space. In fact, there's a new director of the Lab's Naval Center for Space Technology. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with that man: Steven Meier.

You might not think of the Navy as being in the space business. Yet the Naval Research Laboratory has a mission that spans pretty much every domain from underwater to space. In fact, there's a new director of the Lab's Naval Center for Space Technology. Steven Meier talked with Federal Drive host Tom Temin.

AJ Smith turned down scholarships to some of the top engineering programs in the country in order to pursue the study of music at NYU. With scholarships from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Carole Bayer Sager Foundation, he was able to pursue a degree in songwriting and it was there where he found life-changing mentors in the late Glenn Frey and hit songwriter Phil Galdston, self-released his first EP “Dragons in the Sky”, had a #3 hit in Australia with “Summertime”, opened for The Eagles at the Beacon Theatre, performed in the off-Broadway and West End hit Close to You: Burt Bacharach Reimagined, learned some more instruments (he plays 10 now), and graduated with one of America's first Masters Degrees in Songwriting. His songwriting and performance abilities have earned multiple awards, including the prestigious Abe Olman Scholarship from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and he was a semi-finalist ranking in the 2020 International Songwriting Contest. Oh and did I mention he served as a Young Associate Violinist to the National Symphony Orchestra while simultaneously serving as an Engineer and Infrared Systems Developer for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...in high school?Don't miss this conversation with the multi-talented AJ Smith!Find out more about AJ and listen to his music here:www.ajsmithmusic.comwww.ajsmithmusic.com/betterwww.YouTube.com/ajsmithmusicSupport the show

It's your favorite STEM podcast, Don't Be Scared! Where we learn more about the real people who make up STEM.I'm your host, Dr. J. I'm here to give you a little insight into the exciting world of STEM careers.On today's episode, we talk with Dr. Stephanie Vaughan, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the Naval Research Laboratory and a true inspiration to women in science. We got a chance to talk about her postdoc position and her background story. We talked about her experience as being a black woman in a primarily white male field. She gives some great advice for women seeking careers in this field.If you enjoy listening to the podcast and get something out of it, share it with a friend!To learn more about Don't Be Scared click the link below.https://linktr.ee/dontbescaredok

Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! On today's episode, we talk with Dr. Larry O'Neill, Associate professor with Oregon State University and Oregon State Climatologist, about Oceanography, Heat Domes, and Getting "Stranded" at Sea.   Read his full bio below.Help us continue to create great content! If you'd like to sponsor a future episode hit the support podcast button or visit www.environmentalprofessionalsradio.com/sponsor-form Showtimes: 3:06  Nic & Laura talk about Changing Careers in your 30s13:59  Interview with Larry O'Neill Starts16:25  Oceanography24:59  Heat Domes39:16  Getting "Stranded" at Sea Please be sure to ✔️subscribe, ⭐rate, and ✍review.  This podcast is produced by the National Association of Environmental Professions (NAEP). Check out all the NAEP has to offer at NAEP.org.Guest Bio:Since he was very young, Larry always knew that he wanted to work in weather, other than that time in fourth grade where he toyed with the idea of becoming the governor of Arizona. His fascination with weather came about when he born in South Dakota, a state which basically gets every type of weather except for tropical storms; the weather also changed a lot and quickly, which annoys many but added to the mystery. After high school, Larry went to community college in California and transferred to the atmospheric science program at the Univ. of California at Davis. There he hit a bit of indecision whether he wanted to forecast or do research. He heard there were those who studied how weather and ocean interacts, and immediately had this romantic notion of setting up instruments on some warm tropical beach drinking Mai Tai's. As an undergraduate, Larry did a research program at the University of Hawaii which hooked him on the topic. For many reasons, he chose to go to graduate school at Oregon State Univ. His thesis work unfortunately did not have anything to do with long stretches of time on warm tropical beaches. The thesis project mainly dealt with using new sets of satellites to characterize how the ocean affects the weather and vice versa. Larry worked with the Navy for some time after graduate school at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA. He was fortunate there to be working with a group on essentially pure research projects with some interactions on their operational weather forecasting systems and their use of satellite observations. He wanted to teach and advise students, so decided to return to Oregon State Univ as a faculty member. Since then, Larry has expanded his research and outreach focus, which includes activities as State Climatologist of Oregon and the Director of Oregon Climate Service. Music CreditsIntro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace MesaOutro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs MullerSupport the show

Today, Stacy and Robin sit down with Dr. Lauryn DeGreeff, who has worked in analytical chemistry in support of canine detection for over a decade. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry with an emphasis in Forensic Science from Florida International University, and her research focuses on the sampling, characterization, and delivery of human odor, living and deceased, for the purpose of canine detection. In this episode, Stacy and Robin ask Lauryn questions like “Did the FBI actually advertise for a research scientist?” and “Do you think you'll ever invent an instrument that will replace a dog's nose?”Lauryn reflects on her work and research, expounding on her work collecting human scent with scent vacuums, and using that library of scents for dog testing. She explains why blood testing is fun and why the Springer Spaniel she did it with was the best dog for the job. They discuss the ease of FBI funding in contrast to the hustle needed for university funding and how to get funding, as well as how the FBI recruiters research. She dives into her work at the Naval Research Laboratory and working as a victim subject in an airport.After 10 years in the field, Lauryn decided to write a book, which she explains the making of before diving into the work she follows and the work she's currently doing.Key Topics:How Lauryn got involved in the K9 world (1:07)Human scent research (4:09)The logistics of scent collection (8:28)Blood detection dogs (13:11)Funding research (17:52)Working at the Naval Research Laboratory (22:59)Writing her book (28:01)The best and worst pieces of instrumentation (39:32)What a layman should watch for when reading peer reviewed journals (53:59)Whose work Lauryn follows and what she's up to (56:21)Hypothetical research dreams (59:17)Resources:Canines: The Original Biosensors book USE PROMO CODE: JSP30 for 30% offLauryn's LinkedInLauryn's FacebookNathan HallPaola TiedemannMichele Maughan and Jenna Gadberry: K9 Training Aid Containment and StorageLorna IrishDefense Science and Technology Laboratory UKYou can follow us for notifications of upcoming episodes, find us at k9detectioncollaborative.com to enjoy the freebies and tell your friends so you can keep the conversations going.Jingle by: www.mavericksings.com Instagram: @mavericktasticAudio editing & other podcast services by: www.thepodcastman.com Instagram: @the_podcast_man

How many times did you rely on clean water this morning? Did you take a shower or wash your face? Maybe you made coffee or tea … then brushed your teeth. Perhaps you downed big gulps of H-2-O during an early morning workout. Each time we turn on a faucet, we trust that our drinking water is pure and safe, as we've come to expect. But do we really know what's in our water … and what ‘acceptable' levels of impurities are allowed? Some of those impurities are called ‘Per-fluorinated and poly-fluorinated substances,' also known as PFAS. They also have the daunting moniker of ‘forever chemicals. To learn more about forever chemicals, last December we asked Tim Wheeler, associate editor and senior writer of the Bay Journal, to break it down for us. Plus, we' ask Will Baker about his four decades leading the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. He stepped down at the end of 2021. Links: Links: Forever chemicals in MD and PA drinking water, Forever chemicals and fish consumption warning, Contamination at Naval Research Laboratory, Have your water tested. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest this month is LOUISE HIRST, Assistant Professor of Physics, and specialist of the development of advanced, high efficiency photovoltaics for space applications like powering satellites and exploring space.  As a teenager and young adult, she contemplated a dual career in music and science, but knew she could not do both so finally decided to push her physics studies, with the idea she could get into finance or banking. Today, she's not working in the City but continues to play the trumpet and piano when she's not manipulating materials in the lab. She spent several years at the https://www.nrl.navy.mil/ (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) in Washington DC, where she did her postdoc. The lab brings together civilians and military staff, an environment she found both intellectually stimulating and challenging.  Louise Hirst is not easily impressionable, andcertainly not easily discouraged. But is it a natural trait or did she have to build her confidence the hard way? We're asking her and more in this episode. Jump into the conversation: [00:00] - Guest intro [01:50] - How did it all start? [02:56] - Music or physics? Finance or research? [05:15] - It's all about photovoltaics [09:58] - Working with military staff in the U.S. [13:13] - In the news this month - 3D printed nanomagnets unveil a world of patterns in the magnetic field [15:10] - Being a woman in science and sticking up for oneself       [20:50] – Interdisciplinary and translational themes at the University of Cambridge [23:50] – Is physics changing? [28:00] – Where next? [29:28] - Outro Useful links: Read the full news story about 3D printed nanomagnets https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/news/3d-printed-nanomagnets-unveil-world-patterns-magnetic-field (on our website). To learn more about Louise Hirst, visit https://www.spacepv.msm.cam.ac.uk/people.html (Space Photovoltaics (cam.ac.uk)). Find her on Twitter https://twitter.com/LouiseHirstUCam (@LouiseHirstUCam) For more details about research and teaching at the Cavendish, or why not to join us or study with us, go to http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/ (www.phy.cam.ac.uk) Share and join the conversation:If you like this episode, don't forget to rate it and leave a review on your favourite podcast app. Any comment about the podcast or question you would like to ask our physicists? Email us at podcast@phy.cam.ac.uk or join the conversation https://twitter.com/DeptofPhysics (on Twitter) using the hashtag #PeopleDoingPhysics. Episode credits: Hosts: Vanessa Bismuth and Paolo Molignini News presenters: Jacob Butler and Simone Eizagirre Barker Producer: Chris Brock

In this episode of the Space Economy podcast we are featuring a recent Future in Space Operations presentation by Paul Jaffe of the Naval Research Laboratory.Dr. Paul Jaffe is an electronics engineer and researcher with over 25 years of experience at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). He has led or held major roles on dozens of space missions and on breakthrough technology development projects for civilian, defense, and intelligence community sponsors. In this episode Dr. Jaffe will speak on “Power Beaming and Space Applications." This complements an earlier podcast this season by Jeff Mankins on Space Based Solar Power. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 141*NASA's new laser satellite launched into orbitThe future of space communications has been launched into orbit by NASA. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration together with a joint NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun's radiation were launched as part of the U.S. Space Force's Space Test Program 3 mission.*Hubble back to full operationsNASA's Hubble Space Telescope is now back up and running after technicians were able to recovered the last of the orbiting observatory's four primary instruments – the Imaging Spectrograph.*Russia sends two more space tourists to the ISSA Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Japanese space tourists and a Russian Cosmonaut have docked successfully with the International Space Station.*Space Station antenna destroyed by space debrisMeanwhile, astronauts have finally been allowed to undertake a space walk outside the International Space Station to repair a broken antenna.*The Science ReportGrowing calls for a third booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the wake of the Omicron variantIBM build the first quantum computer with over a hundred quantum bits or qubits on a chip.Iran's actions are causing a nuclear crisis which is destabilizing the entire Middle EastAlex on Tech: global chip shortageListen to SpaceTime with our universal listen link: https://link.chtbl.com/spacetime Sponsor Details:This episode of SpaceTime is brought to you with the support of NordVPN…The world's leading VPN provider. Making your online data unreadable to others. Check them out and get a special holiday season discount offer (73% off), plus help support SpaceTime… visit https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary or use the coupon code STUARTGARY at checkout. Thank you…For more SpaceTime and show links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ If you love this podcast, please get someone else to listen too. Thank you…To become a SpaceTime supporter and unlock commercial free editions of the show, gain early access and bonus content, please visit https://bitesz.supercast.com/ . Premium version now available via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The call to “Save the Bay” has galvanized Will Baker most of his life. As he wraps up four decades at the helm of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, he points to what's improved and what hasn't, Pennsylvania's foot-dragging on the bay clean-up--and the late governor William Donald Schaefer's wistful assessment that he had thought it would be easier to Save the Bay: “Our elected officials have all thought that it would be easier and they have failed to follow the science and realize the fundamental changes that need to occur to save one of the nation's greatest national resources, the Chesapeake.”   Plus Bay Journal environmental reporter Tim Wheelerexplains ‘forever chemicals' and why they're in our water. Links: Forever chemicals in MD and PA drinking water, Forever chemicals and fish consumption warning, Contamination at Naval Research Laboratory, Have your water tested. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Melisa Buie makes lasers and solves problems. She is the Corporate Director for Lean Operational Excellence at Coherent, Inc., a $2B global photonics solutions company, where she works on both engineering and business problems. She has extensive experience in operations and engineering, lean manufacturing, and global implementation. Prior to joining Coherent, Melisa was a Member of the Technical Staff and an Engineering Manager at Applied Materials, Inc. and Advanced Energy. She also worked as a Research Scientist for Science Applications International Corporation working at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. where she made theoretical lasers.

In recent years there has been a big push for renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, but one aspect that is essential in fully implementing these technologies is the energy storage required at a large scale. Li-ion batteries are everywhere in our mobile devices, allowing great performance at more affordable prices year after year. However, there are a lot of issues with Li-ion, and researchers are studying alternatives that will allow us to live in a cleaner world. Before we introduce our guest, check out our free professional development guide for materials scientists and engineers! Today's guest is Dr. Rachel Carter, a Research Engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. In this episode she dives into the history of Li-ion batteries and its promising future. In this conversation, we discuss the following topics: How does a battery work? The battery that won a Nobel prize Why is Li-ion special? The safety issues in batteries and solid state electrolytes How is software used to improve battery performance? Battery behavior in different weathers Learn more about our MSE Career Development Online Course, which includes more industry-specific information and advice.  Also, check out our MSE-themed merchandise if you want to support us or simply show off your love of materials science! Thank you Joao Morgado for editing this episode! Join our Discord community! You can meet other passionate materials scientists and engineers from around the world, discuss the latest breakthroughs in MSE, share materials-related memes, and get career advice from experts in the field. For shorter segments and full video podcasts, subscribe to our channel on YouTube. For bloopers, audiograms, and interesting materials science articles, follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Feel free to message us on our social media platforms if you have any feedback or recommendations for future episodes, or email us directly at itsamaterialworldpodcast@gmail.com. Finally, reach out to David Yeh and Punith Upadhya on LinkedIn if you'd like to chat about the latest breakthroughs in MSE! Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed by either guests or hosts in this show are their own, and do not represent the opinions of the companies or organizations for which they are affiliated.  

In this Episode I sit down again and talk with Dr. Lauryn DeGreeff.  She has complete more research since the last time we talked to her and has focused on odor mixtures.  We talk about mixture vs cocktail and debunk a few myths that exist in the K9 world. In my intro I cover the topic of FALSE ALERTS and what a 3 main causes and some ideas on how to fix them. PHD, Forensic Chemistry, Florida International University Dr. Lauryn E. DeGreeff has worked in the field of analytical chemistry in support of canine detection for more than 12 years. She received a Ph.D. in Chemistry with an emphasis in Forensic Science from Florida International University in 2010. Her research focused on the sampling, characterization, and delivery of human odor, living and deceased, for the purpose of canine detection. Following the completion of her doctorate, she worked as a research fellow at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit. Her research focus was detection and determination of human scent and odor and human blood or the development / improvement of canine training aids and training methods. Dr. DeGreeff began her research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 2012 with research efforts focused on the characterization of explosives for instrumental and canine detection. She has since developed and patented a canine training tool for training on mixed odors, which has recently been brought to commercial market. Additional research has included a chemistry-based approach to studying canine olfaction for the purpose of improving canine training and informing field vapor sampling practices. Dr. DeGreeff has published numerous journal articles, holds three patents, has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences, and frequently gives educational seminars law enforcement officers and military personnel. Non Profit Shout out: Vegas Casino K9 Foundation www.vck9f.org/donate  Show Sponsors: Getxent odor tubes: www.getxent.com Sci K9 home of the TADD: www.scik9.com Precision Explosives: www.pre-exp.com Ford K9: Go check out the NEW www.fordk9.com NEW Webinars, Classes, Seminars and soon ONLINE CLASSES with 14 Instructors. Go view all our upcoming classes and seminars which now includes PUPPY COGNITION. Where is Cameron teaching? Go view the EVENTS page: https://www.fordk9.com/events/   Looking for your next TRAINED Detection dog???                   Contact us Info@fordk9.com   Go support K9s Talking Scents Podcast and buy some gear https://www.fordk9.com/product-category/hats/    

Episode 39. Engines! With 25 Science Projects for Kids How does a car move from one place to another? How do cranes lift heavy objects? Readers will learn this and more in Donna McKinney's latest book, Engines! From ancient times to now, engines have powered people's lives. Engines! With 25 Science Projects for Kids invites readers ages 7 to 10 to explore engines and deepen their understanding of the history of engines, what makes them hum, and all the special jobs they do for humans. You'll even learn a few science jokes! Hands-on engineering projects include • Constructing a rubber band heat engine • Building a milk-carton conveyor belt • Building a simple electric motor • Demonstrating pressurized air • Building a balloon rocket engine and • Building a magnet-powered car. The book, as of this podcast date, is available for preorder directly from the publisher and booksellers online and in stores. Links are in the show notes. The author, Donna B. McKinney, has written almost 20 nonfiction books for children on topics ranging from science and technology to history to sports. Before she wrote for children, she wrote about science and technology topics, including chemistry, space science, and robotics, at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. She has a BA in English from Campbell University and an MA in Professional Writing and Editing from George Mason University. She lives in North Carolina near her children and four grandchildren. Donna was a guest on Episode 10 of the podcast and discussed her book about hiking and her trek through all the state parks in North Carolina. In today's episode we discuss her latest book and being a grandmother. I've even added a snippet from Episode 10 about hiking. Welcome, Donna. Please tell us more about your new book and a bit about the other books you've written. Nomad Press Inc. https://nomadpress.net/ https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Science-Projects-Explore-World/dp/1619309378/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&qid=1631067853&refinements=p_27%3ADonna+McKinney&s=books&sr=1-3&text=Donna+McKinney Social Media: Donna McKinney Twitter: @donnabmckinney Instagram: @donnabmckinney ****** Adventures with Grammy Newsletter To sign up, visit https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/7ZleyB4 You will receive a micro-book that provides directions for a super fun activity to do with your children and grandchildren! Please sign up for my monthly newsletter, which is for grandparents who want to make a positive difference in their grandchildren's lives, and for parents who want to ensure that special grandparent bond between their parents and their children. Articles will give you exclusive content I will not share on social media and a heads-up about events, products, and books I think you will find interesting. Adventures with Grammy Podcast Do you want to be a guest or know someone who would be an awesome guest? Let us know! Personalized Teddy Bears To buy the personalized stuffed bears, visit etsy.com/shop/adventureswithgrammy Adventures with Grammy Network Adventures with Grammy has partnered with creatives around the world to introduce you to amazing children's literature, activities, and adventures. I am thrilled to introduce you to people who are as passionate about their children and grandchildren as I am about mine. I met most of these lovely people through hosting my podcast; others I know from other associations. The bottom line is each of these connections offers something of value to families, so head to the Adventures with Grammy Network and explore! Social Media https://www.facebook.com/grammyadventure https://instagram.com/grammyadventure https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtr9e59lIBxSeHJk52jJB3Q https://linkedin.com/in/adventureswithgrammy Tweets by GrammyAdventure Music: https://audiojungle.net/user/play_m Let me know your thoughts about the podcast: send a Tweet to @grammyadventure or an e-mail to ...

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CCG Media presents High-Tech Sunday. On today's episode of High-Tech Sunday, our hosts, Dr. Mark Vaughn and Lango Deen sit down with Physical Scientist for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and 2021 Women of Color STEM Conference Community Service in Government awardee, Dr. Treva Brown, for a conversation on how Children are the Future.  Up first is Corning Incorporated's Manager of Technical Talent Pipelining, Dr. Mark Vaughn.  Next, is Career Communications Group's Senior Technology Editor, Lango Deen.  Finally, our esteemed guest, Dr. Treva Brown. With a passion for microscopy, she helps the Department of Defense gain a better understanding of organisms that cause corrosion on metal materials. As an early career scientist, she has established an analytical protocol for diagnosing the possibility of microbiologically influenced corrosion of copper-nickel heat exchanger samples aboard Navy ships and conducts microbial corrosion studies related to fabric panels.  Dr. Brown is active in outreach and mentorship activities and advocates for STEM outreach in the local community where she spearheads initiatives aimed to improve diversity and inclusion within the scientific community. Emphasizing this outreach, Treva holds the 2021 title of Ms. Black Louisiana International Ambassador, advocating her platform, “Yes You Can”, which encourages youth and young adults to attain their goals no matter the obstacles, especially in the STEM field.  Keep up with Dr. Treva Brown here: LinkedIn Instagram Facebook   Career Communications Group's High-Tech Sunday looks at professional development in technology through the lens of spiritual philosophies. In a time when digital information is critical more than ever, this weekly program is produced by and for CCG's community of alumni and professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, thought leaders, and aspiring students, to bring a concentrated discussion around technological advancements and achievements based on universal moral principles. The one-hour podcasts will be streamed every Sunday. The podcasts can be accessed through the BEYA Facebook page, Women of Color Facebook page, and CCG YouTube page ​in addition to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podbean, and Spotify. Please join us next time.

In this episode we sit down with Paul Ray from NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope team as a part of the US Naval Research Laboratory. We talk about Neutron stars, blackholes, and using x-rays and gamma rays in astronomy. Tune in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jim-murphy4/support

Join us on this week's Black Doctors Talk Podcast which features our guest, Dr. Treva Brown. Dr. Brown speaks to us on the topic of women in Science and the importance of STEM outreach. Dr. Brown is a physical scientist with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory at NASA's Stennis Space Center. With a passion for microscopy, she helps the Department of Defense gain a better understanding of organisms that cause corrosion on metal materials. During the podcast, Dr. Brown shares her journey to completing both her graduate degrees and how her faith and favor landed her the current dream opportunity she has in her current position. Although there were some who doubted her abilities, it was the village that surrounded and supported her that continuously provided the motivation to believe and accomplish personal and professional goals. She discusses being active in outreach and mentorship activities as she advocates for STEM outreach in the local community where she spearheads initiatives aimed to improve diversity and inclusion within the scientific community. Dr. Brown completed her undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 2011 and doctorate in Chemistry at the University of New Orleans in 2017. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and currently serves on professional boards for the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, the Louisiana local section of the American Chemical Society, and the Microscopy Society of America.

Nancy Roman hat in ihrem Leben all die Vorurteile und Diskriminierungen erlebt, die Frauen in der Naturwissenschaft so oft erleben müssen. Trotzdem hat sie die moderne Astronomie maßgeblich beeinflusst. Um ihr Leben geht es in der neuen Folge der Sternengeschichten.

They're out there in the universe - bursts of radio energy coming from distant galaxies. These fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first identified a few years ago. Now, thanks in large measure to the work of Matthew Kerr, we know exactly where in the cosmos at least some of these FRBs originate. Kerr is a research physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and he joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more details.

Ears Adrift - Wave Function Ears Adrift explores quantum technology with interviews from U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's top scientists with a discussion of the history of quantum and advancements in position, navigation, timing and sensors.

Brett Vaughan is the U.S. Navy Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and AI Portfolio Manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Mr. Vaughan has 30 years of Defense Intelligence and Technology expertise with strengths in military support, strategic communications, geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), Naval Intelligence and Navy R&D. He spent two decades in various roles at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), an additional 10 years in intelligence roles in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, and was recently appointed to his current role in 2019. Mr. Vaughan has Master's Degrees in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University, and in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Geography and Cartography, from University of Mary Washington. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Established by Congress in 1946, its mission is to plan, foster, and encourage scientific research to maintain future naval power and preserve national security. The Office of Naval Research carries out its mission through funding and collaboration with universities, other government laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and also oversees the Naval Research Laboratory, the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps, which conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development, and has a prestigious history, including the development of the first U.S. radar system, synthetic lubricants, and surveillance satellites. 

Join Bob and Shelly this week and get the scoop on a dirty little science secret that the textile industry doesn't want you to know.  Our guest, Gary S. Selwyn, a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory chemist, shares his discoveries and innovations that have him learning a lot about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval process as he works to share his life-saving innovation in the prevention of COVID19! Show Notes Be Greater Than Average Gift of Learning Be Greater Than Average Competitive Robotics Gary S. Selwyn received his B.S. degree in chemistry from New York University, Albany, in 1974, and his Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from University of California, Berkley, in 1979.  From 1979 to 1982, he did postdoctoral research at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.  From 1982 to 1994, he worked first as a Staff Scientist with IBM and then as a Research Manager at the IBM Watson Research Center.  He co-chaired a NATO Advanced Research Conference in 1993 and is the recipient of two R&D100 Awards.  He has been with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, since 1994, and studies the chemistry and physics of plasmas used in materials processing.  He is also the President and founder of APJeT, Inc., a spin-off from LANL that is commercializing a licensed atmospheric pressure plasma technology for material processing applications.  Gary has since retired and started his own company, Greenthemetek, treating fabrics and currently has a mask treatment to prevent COVID19 in the FDA approval process.   Green Theme Technologies Inc. EMPEL Technology Platform Patents by Gary Selwyn Testing of Antibacterial Face Masks (News Story)   Contact: Gary S Selwyn, PhD gary.selwyn@greenthemetek.com phone: 1-505-200-2693   Facebook Linkedin Twitter

Join Bob and Shelly this week and get the scoop on a dirty little science secret that the textile industry doesn't want you to know.  Our guest, Gary S. Selwyn, a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory chemist, shares his discoveries and innovations that have him learning a lot about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval process as he works to share his life-saving innovation in the prevention of COVID19! Show Notes Be Greater Than Average Gift of Learning Be Greater Than Average Competitive Robotics Gary S. Selwyn received his B.S. degree in chemistry from New York University, Albany, in 1974, and his Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from University of California, Berkley, in 1979.  From 1979 to 1982, he did postdoctoral research at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.  From 1982 to 1994, he worked first as a Staff Scientist with IBM and then as a Research Manager at the IBM Watson Research Center.  He co-chaired a NATO Advanced Research Conference in 1993 and is the recipient of two R&D100 Awards.  He has been with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, since 1994, and studies the chemistry and physics of plasmas used in materials processing.  He is also the President and founder of APJeT, Inc., a spin-off from LANL that is commercializing a licensed atmospheric pressure plasma technology for material processing applications.  Gary has since retired and started his own company, Greenthemetek, treating fabrics and currently has a mask treatment to prevent COVID19 in the FDA approval process.   Green Theme Technologies Inc. EMPEL Technology Platform Patents by Gary Selwyn Testing of Antibacterial Face Masks (News Story)   Contact: Gary S Selwyn, PhD gary.selwyn@greenthemetek.com phone: 1-505-200-2693   Facebook Linkedin Twitter

Find out how the future of Internet Of Energy innovation (IoE) is evolving and the impact this digital accelerator has had on IoE. In this week’s podcast, we interview Ryan Warena, Co-Founder and President of Geli.  A company built on the Internet Of Energy , which happens to be one of our earliest investments.  Ryan brings over 10 years of experience in computational and battery R&D, as well as energy storage business and control platform technologies, with several patents in energy storage and energy computing technologies. Ryan holds degrees in chemical engineering from UC Santiago, a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a post-doc research at Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and MIT. He loves long-lived energy networks and his goal in life is to see the world operated on a renewably energized Internet of Energy.

Fungi in space? We sit down and discuss Zach's involvement in mission to send fungi around the Moon. We also discuss building houses out of fungi on Mars, extended space flight, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! Tune in. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jim-murphy4/support

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Ears Adrift - Transparent Body Armor MC2 Sonja Wickard interviews scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory about the advancements in body armor technology.

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When talking about the pandemic, host cell surface angiotensin converting enzyme might not be a household phrase. But it's part of an important piece of research completed by the Naval Research Laboratory and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the NIH. The research, just accepted by a peer review scientific journal, has to do with how the virus actually goes about infecting people. For more, the Federal Drive spoke with research chemist, and acting head of the optical nanomaterials section at the Naval Research Lab, Dr. Mason Wolak. We started with the nature of the collaboration.

Mike Stevens works at the Naval Research Laboratory, and his projects that we discuss in this episode are funded by NASA! We talk with him about his ongoing projects including a mission that deals with the Martian atmosphere and so much more.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jim-murphy4/support

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Patrick P. Rose, Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global, as well as Program Manager, Bio-industrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Established by Congress in 1946, ONR's mission is to plan, foster, and encourage scientific research to maintain future naval power and preserve national security. The ONR carries out its mission through funding and collaboration with universities, other government laboratories, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and also oversees the Naval Research Laboratory, the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps which conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development, and has a prestigious history, including the development of the first U.S. radar system, synthetic lubricants, and surveillance satellites. On the life sciences front ONR has R&D going on in such areas as Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology, Cognitive Science for Human Machine Teaming, Gut Microbiology for Warfighter Resilience, and Synthetic Biology for Naval Applications including Environmental Surveillance and Synthetic Microbial Electronics. Dr. Patrick Rose: Dr. Patrick P. Rose, is Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global), as well as Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Rose received his PhD in Molecular Microbiology, with a focus on Virology and Cancer, from Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, did post-doctoral work here in Philadelphia at University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured throughout academia and government on a range of themes including, but not limited to, bio-security, public health, domestic preparedness, pandemic and disaster response, and biological and chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction at various institutions including the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security, the National Defense University, and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. Dr. Rose joined ONR in 2016 and became the Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute in 2020 (previously known as the Synthetic Biology Manufacturing Innovation Institute) which is dedicated to a range of synthetic biology applications and specifically promises to scale up a new class of manufacturing that will provide the United States with domestic capabilities to manufacture critical resources and provide supply chain security. Synthetic Biology, a field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities, has the potential to create entirely new classes of products with defense applications, such as chemicals and materials with advanced properties that could be used in austere environments for the war fighter, but also which may have dual use future commercial potential for innovations in food, agriculture, fuel, pharmaceuticals, and other consumer products, creating opportunities for U.S. manufacturers. On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Rose about: His background; how he became interested in science, in biology, and in molecular microbiology. A discussion of his career in biosecurity and preparedness. A general discussion about ONR and the current and future roles of synthetic biology across the ONR from health, to energy, to material sciences. An overview of the function / goals of the Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute. A discussion of important influencers and mentors over the course of his career. Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Follow Ira Pastor on Twitter:@IraSamuelPastor Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme Find ideaXme across the internet including oniTunes,SoundCloud,Radio Public,TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.

Dr. Darryl Boyd is a Research Chemist in the Optical Sciences Division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He is also the STEM Director at the Transformational Education Adventure Center in McLean, VA, as well as the STEM instructor for Roots Charter School in Washington, DC. As a synthetic chemist, Dr. Boyd creates new molecules and materials. His work focuses on developing and studying materials that can transmit infrared light, particularly materials that leverage the unique properties of the element sulfur. By looking through these materials, we can see wavelengths of light that are longer than what we can detect with our eyes alone. Dr. Boyd is also dedicated to outreach and getting students excited about STEM. When he’s not doing science, Darryl enjoys writing, playing his trumpet or saxophone, working out at the gym, and spending time at church. He and his wife also love hanging out with their young daughter who is less than a year old. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Michigan. Next, he attended Purdue University where he was awarded his M.S. in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and Electrochemistry. Afterwards, Dr. Boyd began working as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory, and he accepted a position as a Research Chemist there in 2014. Dr. Boyd has received many awards and honors throughout his career, including an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Jerome & Isabella Karle Research Fellow from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and an Edison Patent Award from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He was also named among the “Talented 12” of 2018 by the American Chemical Society’s Chemical & Engineering News magazine and a 2019 Rising Researcher in Defense and Commercial Sensing by The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). In our interview, Dr. Boyd will share more about his life and research.

Since the dawn of the space era, satellites have been solar powered. Now the Navy is testing the revolutionary possibility that satellites could somehow beam solar energy down from orbit. For details on a newly launched experiment, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to electronics engineer and principal investigator with the Naval Research Laboratory, Paul Jaffe.

The Navy is sending a camera aboard a satellite to grab data from the poles of the sun. Yeah it's hot up there, but the resulting information could have important implications for naval operations. Dr. Robin Colaninno an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what this project is all about.

Welcome to the second of 3 podcasts for our annual Winter Series. As with our Summer Series, we’ll be bringing you recent important news updates and talks on topics we think you’ll find interesting from other creators. Our regular interviews will resume on January 14th. On December 4th NASA announced the first results from the Parker Solar Probe mission. The mission is a first of its kind with the probe flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft before. It’s a risky mission, but with rich scientific rewards expected. And in this news conference, the principal investigators confirm some long thought theories about our star, but also reveal some new mysteries. The seven year mission continues, and just five days ago the spacecraft successfully completed its second flyby of Venus. NASA says the spacecraft used Venus to slow itself down, approaching the planet at a distance of about 3,009 km (1,870 miles) from Venus’s surface during the second gravity assist of the mission. This gravity assist maneuver adjusted Parker Solar Probe’s trajectory to set it up for its fourth orbit around the Sun, or perihelion, which will occur on January 29. Listen in. Time line: 0:00 - Intro 2:52 - Nicola Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington 5:16 - Stuart Bale, principal investigator of the FIELDS instrument at the University of California, Berkeley 9:21 - Justin Kasper, principal investigator of the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor 15:19 - Russ Howard, principal investigator of the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington 21:04 - David McComas, principal investigator of the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISOIS) instrument at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey 28:04 - Questions and Answers

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “Space Race,” it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for satellites of the future. Vanguard 1 is still flying. At 60 years, it is the oldest artificial satellite in space. Callahan is the Naval Research Laboratory Historian. She is also a co-author (with John Krige and Ashok Mahara) of NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her work has also been featured in NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation, the Navy War College Review, Seapower Magazine, and Federal News Radio. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “Space Race,” it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for satellites of the future. Vanguard 1 is still flying. At 60 years, it is the oldest artificial satellite in space. Callahan is the Naval Research Laboratory Historian. She is also a co-author (with John Krige and Ashok Mahara) of NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her work has also been featured in NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation, the Navy War College Review, Seapower Magazine, and Federal News Radio. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “Space Race,” it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for satellites of the future. Vanguard 1 is still flying. At 60 years, it is the oldest artificial satellite in space. Callahan is the Naval Research Laboratory Historian. She is also a co-author (with John Krige and Ashok Mahara) of NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her work has also been featured in NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation, the Navy War College Review, Seapower Magazine, and Federal News Radio. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “Space Race,” it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for satellites of the future. Vanguard 1 is still flying. At 60 years, it is the oldest artificial satellite in space. Callahan is the Naval Research Laboratory Historian. She is also a co-author (with John Krige and Ashok Mahara) of NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her work has also been featured in NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation, the Navy War College Review, Seapower Magazine, and Federal News Radio. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “Space Race,” it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for satellites of the future. Vanguard 1 is still flying. At 60 years, it is the oldest artificial satellite in space. Callahan is the Naval Research Laboratory Historian. She is also a co-author (with John Krige and Ashok Mahara) of NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her work has also been featured in NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation, the Navy War College Review, Seapower Magazine, and Federal News Radio. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “Space Race,” it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for satellites of the future. Vanguard 1 is still flying. At 60 years, it is the oldest artificial satellite in space. Callahan is the Naval Research Laboratory Historian. She is also a co-author (with John Krige and Ashok Mahara) of NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her work has also been featured in NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation, the Navy War College Review, Seapower Magazine, and Federal News Radio. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BORN AN HOUR DRIVE OUTSIDE OF DENVER, COLORADO… in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, AJ Smith has taken a rather unconventional path for an Indie/Pop singer-songwriter. After all, not many can claim to have served as a Young Associate Violinist to the National Symphony Orchestra while simultaneously serving as an Engineer and Infrared Systems Developer for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...in high school. But Smith's dual passions for organic music and technology started early and with a reckless abandon that led him to run away from home at the age of 3 for the sole purpose of listening to piano lessons down the street. His parents finally realized that these escapades would only stop once Smith himself, still only 3-years-old at the time, was allowed to learn how to play the piano. And shortly after that, despite having limited music knowledge, Smith was stealing both of his parents' tape players, figuring out how to effectively multitrack & record early compositions (while haphazardly recording over some of his parents' favorite cassette tapes in the process). The trend continued and, never shy about seizing opportunities or facing challenges, Smith’s diverse passions and healthy obsessions led him on a genre-crossing journey. While learning piano and violin in rigorous classical settings, Smith's musical palette continuously sought new sounds, leading him to serve as the drummer/vocalist in his middle school Punk/Screamo band, electric guitarist in a Rock duo, and even the lead fiddler in the regionally touring Bluegrass/Gospel band The Circuit Riders. Oh, and all of this was while he was programming and selling games to his friends for their calculators. Eventually, Smith would turn down scholarships to some of the top engineering programs in the country in order to pursue the study of music at New York University. With scholarships from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Carole Bayer Sager Foundation, Smith was able to pursue a degree in songwriting and it was there where he found life-changing mentors in the late Glenn Frey and hit songwriter Phil Galdston, self-released his first EP “Dragons in the Sky”, had a #3 hit in Australia with “Summertime”, opened for The Eagles at the Beacon Theatre, performed in the off-Broadway and West End hit Close to You: Burt Bacharach Reimagined, learned some more instruments (he plays 10 now), and graduated with one of America’s first Masters Degrees in Songwriting. Smith collaborated with GRAMMY-winner producer Scott Jacoby (John Legend, Vampire Weekend) for his 2016 single & EP “Brooklyn Nights”, which received airplay on Z100, Eagle 97.7 and DC101 (where DJ Mike Jones compared the track to fun.’s “We Are Young”). He’s opened for Lindsey Stirling and Emily Kinney, and performed at Milwaukee Summerfest and Bethlehem MusikFest. Now nearly 2,000 miles away from where his musical journey began, Smith makes his home in a city with a different sort of breathtaking view - New York. And all of his experiences are apparent in his unique Pop sound: an orchestrated blend of acoustic and electronic instruments, informed by Classical, Rock, Folk, Theatre and more. His continued wiz-kid love of technology that once had him building infrared sensors for the U.S. Navy now enables him to build out custom rigs for his one-man live shows that are a spectacle of showmanship, featuring Smith on a revolving multitude of instruments all at once. Be sure to stay in touch to see Smith's next live show!

Join Jeff Meyer as he talks to Dr. Lauryn E. DeGreeff. Lauryn is a research chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory, In this episode hear her explain some of the things that can affect odor and how it will impact your dog. To contact Jeff Meyer, email him at Jeff@HITSk9.net To learn more about HITS, go to HITSK9.net

In D.C., we speak to NRL Researcher Debra Rolison, whose team has developed a way to safely recharge zinc alkaline batteries, which could possibly have several advantages over lithium ion cells in our greater energy needs. For pictures and additional info, visit http://www.energy-cast.com/56-zinc.html

In the months following President Donald Trump's executive order which putting a priority on artificial intelligence in government, agencies are taking steps to ensure the federal workforce sees AI as an asset, not a threat. For example, the Naval Research Laboratory is looking at using AI tools to detect and correct for workplace challenges before employees walk out the door. The Government Accountability Office is look at ways to improve the data collection that powers these AI tools. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.

In D.C., we discuss the potential to capture CO2 directly from the ocean and convert it to fuel with research chemist Dr. Heather Willauer. For pictures and additional info, visit http://www.energy-cast.com/54-ecem.html

If various fish, shrimp and microbial organisms can sense and respond to the presence of foreign objects they could potentially help the Navy's ability to know what man-made objects are underneath the surface. At least, that's the idea behind a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program called Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors, or PALS. It's been going for a year and Larry Tender, a chemist with the Naval Research Laboratory, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an update.

In Washington, we explore the possibilities of using the ocean’s natural chemistry to power a fuel cell that can operate indefinitely on the sea floor. For pictures and additional info, visit http://www.energy-cast.com/52-benthic.html

At the historic Naval Center for Space Technology in Washington, we explore the potential for solar power to provide abundant baseload energy if it can be beamed down from orbit. For pictures and additional info, visit http://www.energy-cast.com/50-space.html

From TRS80 to artificial intelligence and big data, Dan Robertson has lived through some of the most amazing transformations in technology and life sciences. And he is at the center of the biggest disruptions yet to come. What does Apple's ResearchKit for iOS mean for healthcare innovation? How is IBRI leading the way in the next big disruption in healthcare? Can Life Science innovate like tech? Or maybe Amazon, Google, and Uber should pay close attention to what's happening in the medical innovation space to avoid some potential land mines as they dive into healthcare. On a personal note, Dan relates his journey from university to research-based pharma to non-profit institute and how his passion is always the same: medical innovation to make a difference for patients. Thanks to IBRI and BPM Associates for sponsoring this week's episode: www.indianabiosciences.orgwww.bpm-associates.com Daniel Robertson, PhD Research Fellow, VP of Digital Technology, and Director of the Applied Data Sciences Center Daniel H. Robertson, a proven and experienced technical leader in information technology (IT), computational science and research, is focused on defining and developing the Institute's computational analytics, digital, and data science capabilities. Dr. Robertson originally joined the IBRI in mid-2015 as part of a loaned executive program at Eli Lilly and Company, but in mid-2017 he accepted a permanent position at the IBRI due to the opportunity at the IBRI to drive innovative research among multiple life sciences companies, academic institutions, and technology companies to advance solutions to critical problems. His most recent role at Eli Lilly and Company was Senior Director of Research IT where he led the IT team supporting discovery systems and processes across six global research sites and nine functional/therapeutic areas. During leadership role in IT at Lilly, Dr. Robertson restructured Research IT to become a leaner, more efficient organization, reset the Research IT strategy supporting the discovery functions, delivered emerging new technology and analyses through informatics, enhanced support for HPC, cloud, and internal big data storage and analysis. He also transformed the IT support for Open Innovation Drug Discovery program to be the first high-performing DevOps team, which was recognized with an InformationWeek 500 award. Throughout his 10 years in leadership roles at Lilly, Dr. Robertson developed several individuals within his organization to advance to higher level roles in other organizations within Lilly. He joined Lilly as a research scientist in Lilly Research Laboratories and performed numerous independent contributor and scientific leadership roles before transitioning to the IT organization in 2010. Dr. Robertson earned his PhD in physical chemistry from Florida State University and his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, graduating Summa Cum Laude, from Florida Southern College. After earning his PhD., Dr. Robertson served as an NRC/NRL Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and then held several positions at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) from 1993 through 2000. He last served as Associate Scientist and Director of Technical and Administrative Services and Manager of the Facility for Computational Molecular Science at IUPUI before joining Eli Lilly and Company in 2000. Dr. Robertson has published 67 papers in refereed journals, authored three invited book chapters, and conducted more than 65 professional/technical presentations. He has been honored with multiple awards from Eli Lilly and Company and IUPUI, and is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society and physics and mathematics honoraries.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a meteorologist at the Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. David Peterson, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Last year was a record year for wildfires across the globe, and their impact on the atmosphere remains highly uncertain. Thanks to new research from expert scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the world is gaining more insight into what drives these massive and escalating events. NRL meteorologist Dr. Peterson explained his findings from his recent research, "Wildfire-Driven Thunderstorms Cause a Volcano-Like Stratospheric Injection of Smoke," during a press conference at the European Geosciences Union's annual General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, held from April 8 to 13. "Our research shows that the stratospheric impact from five wildfire-driven thunderstorms, known as pyrocumulonimbus or pyroCb, was comparable to a moderate volcanic eruption," Peterson explained the NRL pryoCb research team's findings and that it's an interdisciplinary collaboration with scientists from both the Marine Meteorology and Remote Sensing Divisions within NRL. The significance of volcanic eruptions in the climate system has been recognized for several decades, but pyroCb research is relatively new, originating at NRL in the early 2000s, according to Peterson.

Wildfires occurred at record levels last year. As television footage showed, they do a lot of damage to land and property. But they also have impact beyond the local acreage where they burn. They also affect the atmosphere and that's of concern to weather-watchers at the Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. David Peterson, a meteorologist with the Marine Meteorology Division at the NRL, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Lot of old satellites and debris orbit the earth in space. But one hunk of metal is particularly special this year. The satellite Vanguard has been orbiting the earth for 60 years. It is the oldest satellite in orbit and it launched for the Naval Research Laboratory. For more on the significance of this satellite, Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione spoke with NRL Historian Angel Callahan and Naval Center for Space Technology Director John Schaub for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Dr. Mike Summers is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at George Mason University. He majored in Physics, Mathematics, and Russian in his undergraduate studies at Murray State University. Afterwards, Mike was awarded his M.S. in Space Physics from The University of Texas at Dallas and later his PhD in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology. Mike next conducted postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a Research Physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory before accepting a position as a full time faculty member at George Mason University. Mike has received many awards, including the NASA Group Achievement Award: (as a part of the ) New Horizon Mission, as well as the Alan J. Berman Research Publication award from the Naval Research Laboratory. In addition, he is co-author of the recently published book Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System. Today, Mike joins us to discuss his life and science.

Chemical Engineer Dr. Benjamin Gould from the Naval Research Laboratory explains the use of hydrogen fuel cells to power drones.

The Naval Research Laboratory powers a drone with a new fuel cell design, an Amazon patent to identify threats to drones, PrecisionHawk reports on BVLOS technology needs, and the FAA drone registration system reaches its one-year anniversary. Members of the chemistry and tactical electronic warfare divisions from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory with the Ion Tiger unmanned air vehicle. Photo courtesy U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. News NRL completes first flight of UAV with custom hydrogen fuel cell Scheme of a proton-conducting fuel cell, courtesy Wikipedia.   A team from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed and flown the Ion Tiger powered by a new hydrogen fuel cell developed at NRL. The program manager at the Office of Naval Research said, "NRL having the know how to build their own fuel cells in-house gives ONR and the U.S. Navy the understanding and tools needed for transitioning fuel cells to the fleet."   Amazon gets US patent for 'countermeasures' to protect drone delivery Amazon was awarded a technology patent for a system of "countermeasures of threats to an uncrewed autonomous vehicle."  The system is based on a mesh network and communication between multiple drones that detect possible signs of a compromise. Precisionhawk Research Outlines Operations Risk for Drones Flying Beyond Line of Sight Under the FAA Pathfinder Program, PrecisionHawk's Phase 2 research indicates technology assist is critical for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations. PrecisionHawk found that human control is subject to variability and cannot be relied upon exclusively for safe BVLOS flight. Good situational awareness technology is also needed. Drone Registration Marks First Anniversary December 21, 2016, marked the one-year anniversary of the FAA web-based drone registration system. More than 600,000 owners have registered and the FAA calls the system “an unqualified success.” Also, “The rule and the registration system were primarily aimed at the thousands of drone hobbyists who had little or no experience with the U.S. aviation system. The agency saw registration as an excellent way to give them a sense of responsibility and accountability for their actions. The agency wanted them to feel they are part of the aviation community, to see themselves as pilots.” One-Year Anniversary of the FAA's Drone Registry http://youtu.be/gQyedp8vmk0 Videos of the Week Watch the 6 Most Innovative Drone Videos of 2016 Time selected six drone videos they considered to be those that most challenged our perspectives: The Nature Video Perfected The Destruction of Aleppo The Construction of Apple Campus 2 The Tight Squeeze Approach The Single Shot Approach The Top Down Approach Human Flying Drone This super heavy lift multirotor has enough power to lift a man. Filmed in Finland. Be sure to also watch the “behind the scenes” video. http://youtu.be/At3xcj-pTjg  

Gordon Briggs, a postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, talks about the article he and Matthias Scheutz, director of the Human Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts University, wrote in the January Scientific American titled "The Case for Robot Disobedience."

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Richard Easton, author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones, to discuss the development of GPS and its role in the military, intelligence, and civilian domains. Easton’s father, Roger, led the Space Applications Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory from the Vanguard Satellite era to the early days of GPS development.

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses about time travel with Dr. Adler. Dr. Adler has been at St. Mary's College since 1997. Before then he was at Cleveland State University and the Naval Research Laboratory. He is the author of 40 scientific papers, many with undergraduate co-authors, and is the author of Wizards, Aliens and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction, a popular book on the science in science fiction and fantasy. His blog, Wizards, Aliens, Starships and More, can be found at WordPress. His other interests include baking and working on the Great American (Fantasy) Novel in his spare time.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has a working prototype for a space-based solar energy collector and distributor that would beat the cloudy-day problem. David Biello reports  

NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory has put a powerful imaging system on the International Space Station that's aimed at long term, detailed imaging of ocean coasts

The Naval Research Laboratory and NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program are supporting experimental research that could make future bacteria-powered micro-rovers run with incredible range.

Elaine S. Oran, senior scientist for Reactive Flow Physics from the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., talks about the research being conducted at her lab.

Separating Solar and Anthropogenic (Greenhouse Gas-Related) Climate Impacts During the past three decades a suite of space-based instruments has monitored the Sun’s brightness as well as the Earth’s surface and atmospheric temperatures. These datasets enable the separation of climate’s responses to solar activity from other sources of climate variability (anthropogenic greenhouse gases, El Niño Southern Oscillation, volcanic aerosols). The empirical evidence indicates that the solar irradiance 11-year cycle increase of 0.1% produces a global surface temperature increase of about 0.1 K with larger increases at higher altitudes. Historical solar brightness changes are estimated by modeling the contemporary irradiance changes in terms of their solar magnetic sources (dark sunspots and bright faculae) in conjunction with simulated long-term evolution of solar magnetism. In this way, the solar irradiance increase since the seventeenth century Maunder Minimum is estimated to be slightly larger than the increase in recent solar activity cycles, and smaller than early estimates that were based on variations in Sun-like stars and cosmogenic isotopes. Ongoing studies are beginning to decipher the empirical Sun- climate connections as a combination of responses to direct solar heating of the surface and lower atmosphere, and indirect heating via solar UV irradiance impacts on the ozone layer and middle atmosphere, with subsequent communication to the surface and climate. The associated physical pathways appear to involve the modulation of existing dynamical and circulation atmosphere-ocean couplings, including the El Nino Southern Oscillation (El Nino/La Nina cycles) and the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation. The Sun's Role in Past, Current and Future Climate Change Correlations of instrumental or reconstructed climate time series with indices of solar activity are often being used to suggest that the climate system is tightly coupled to the sun. Yet correlations have to be used with caution because they are not necessarily synonymous with cause-and-effect relationships. Therefore, it is critical to understand the physical mechanisms that are responsible for the signals. Independent tests can then be applied to validate or reject a hypothesized link. Spatial structures that are related to the processes that translate the solar influence into a climatic response can serve as such a test. A particularly powerful example is obtained by looking at the vertical extent of the solar signal in the atmosphere. Biographies Dr. Judith Lean is Senior Scientist for Sun-Earth System Research in the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. She has served on a variety of NASA, NSF, NOAA and NRC advisory committees, including as Chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Working Group on Solar Influences on Global Change and, most recently, the NRC Committee on a Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor De-scopes and De-manifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft. A member of the AGU, IAGA, AAS/SPD and AMS, she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2002 and a member of US National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Dr. Caspar Ammann is a research scientist, in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He has a M.S. degree in Geography and Geology from the University of Bern, Switzerland and a Ph.D. in Geosciences from the University of Massachusetts. His primary research is focused on the climate of past centuries and millennia, and how the current changes compare to this natural background. He has reconstructed past climates as well as volcanic forcing from proxy (e.g., ice cores, corals etc..) records and then simulated climate variability and response to forcings in state-of-the-art coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-General Circulation Models.

Separating Solar and Anthropogenic (Greenhouse Gas-Related) Climate Impacts During the past three decades a suite of space-based instruments has monitored the Sun’s brightness as well as the Earth’s surface and atmospheric temperatures. These datasets enable the separation of climate’s responses to solar activity from other sources of climate variability (anthropogenic greenhouse gases, El Niño Southern Oscillation, volcanic aerosols). The empirical evidence indicates that the solar irradiance 11-year cycle increase of 0.1% produces a global surface temperature increase of about 0.1 K with larger increases at higher altitudes. Historical solar brightness changes are estimated by modeling the contemporary irradiance changes in terms of their solar magnetic sources (dark sunspots and bright faculae) in conjunction with simulated long-term evolution of solar magnetism. In this way, the solar irradiance increase since the seventeenth century Maunder Minimum is estimated to be slightly larger than the increase in recent solar activity cycles, and smaller than early estimates that were based on variations in Sun-like stars and cosmogenic isotopes. Ongoing studies are beginning to decipher the empirical Sun- climate connections as a combination of responses to direct solar heating of the surface and lower atmosphere, and indirect heating via solar UV irradiance impacts on the ozone layer and middle atmosphere, with subsequent communication to the surface and climate. The associated physical pathways appear to involve the modulation of existing dynamical and circulation atmosphere-ocean couplings, including the El Nino Southern Oscillation (El Nino/La Nina cycles) and the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation. The Sun's Role in Past, Current and Future Climate Change Correlations of instrumental or reconstructed climate time series with indices of solar activity are often being used to suggest that the climate system is tightly coupled to the sun. Yet correlations have to be used with caution because they are not necessarily synonymous with cause-and-effect relationships. Therefore, it is critical to understand the physical mechanisms that are responsible for the signals. Independent tests can then be applied to validate or reject a hypothesized link. Spatial structures that are related to the processes that translate the solar influence into a climatic response can serve as such a test. A particularly powerful example is obtained by looking at the vertical extent of the solar signal in the atmosphere. Biographies Dr. Judith Lean is Senior Scientist for Sun-Earth System Research in the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. She has served on a variety of NASA, NSF, NOAA and NRC advisory committees, including as Chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Working Group on Solar Influences on Global Change and, most recently, the NRC Committee on a Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor De-scopes and De-manifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft. A member of the AGU, IAGA, AAS/SPD and AMS, she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2002 and a member of US National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Dr. Caspar Ammann is a research scientist, in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He has a M.S. degree in Geography and Geology from the University of Bern, Switzerland and a Ph.D. in Geosciences from the University of Massachusetts. His primary research is focused on the climate of past centuries and millennia, and how the current changes compare to this natural background. He has reconstructed past climates as well as volcanic forcing from proxy (e.g., ice cores, corals etc..) records and then simulated climate variability and response to forcings in state-of-the-art coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-General Circulation Models.

What do the Department of Defense and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have in common? They have both funded the development of Tor (torproject.org), a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet in safety. Tor's 1500 volunteer servers carry traffic for several hundred thousand users including ordinary citizens who want protection from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want to look at a competitor's website in private, law enforcement and government intelligence agencies who need to do operations on the Internet without being noticed, and aid workers in the Middle East who need to contact their home servers without fear of physical harm.We'll give an overview of the Tor architecture, and talk about why you'd want to use it, what security it provides, and policy and legal issues. Then we can open it up for discussion about open research questions, wider social implications, and other topics the audience wants to consider. About the speaker: Paul Syverson is a Mathematician at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, where he has been working on the theory, design, and analysis of security and privacy systems for over eighteen years. His inventions include the award winning Onion Routing, and he is designer of all onion routing systems to date, including the latest system, Tor. Dr. Syverson has been chair of nine international conferences and workshops on security and privacy including the 2007 ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference. He is author of the book Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge, editor of many volumes on security and privacy, and author of many dozens of papers published in refereed conferences and journals. He has served on boards and steering committees of various technical organizations and has been visiting scholar or faculty at academic institutions in the United States, England, and Italy. Degrees: PhD and MA in Philosophy (Logic), MA in Mathematics (all three from Indiana), AB in Philosophy from Cornell. More at http://www.syverson.org/Roger Dingledine is project leader for The Tor Project, a US non-profit working on anonymity research and development. While at MIT he developed Free Haven, one of the early peer-to-peer systems that emphasized resource management while maintaining anonymity for its users. He works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the US Navy, Voice of America, and other organizations to design and develop systems for anonymity and traffic analysis resistance. He organizes academic conferences on anonymity, speaks at such events as Blackhat, Defcon, Toorcon, CCC congresses, and What the Hack, and also does tutorials on anonymity for national and foreign law enforcement. Roger was honored in 2006 as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review magazine. http://freehaven.net/~arma/cv.html