2012 News Releases


More information and visuals that are not available electronically may be obtained by contacting the NRL Public Affairs Office. New items are added as they are released.


Scientific & Technical Interest
1/3 Navy Researchers Investigate Small-Scale Autonomous Planetary Explorers
1/5 NRL-SSC Personnel Embark USNS Pathfinder
1/6 The Naval Research Laboratory's Most Popular Stories of 2011
1/19 Karl Battams Co-authors Paper in Science
1/23 NRL's SoloHI Instrument Selected for Flight on Solar Orbiter Mission
1/27 Scientists See "Sloshing" Galaxy Cluster
2/3 Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way's Magnetic Fields
2/23 Pioneering NRL Physicist had Tuskegee Ties
3/7 NRL Designs Robot for Shipboard Firefighting
3/9 TacSat-4 Enables Polar Region SatCom Experiment
3/13 NRL's CT-Analyst Operational Demo Delivered to Hamburg Germany Fire Brigade
3/14 Inside NRL's Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research
3/16 Naval Research Laboratory Opens Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research
3/20 NRL Tests Robotic Fueling of Unmanned Surface Vessels
3/26 NRL Scientists Optimize Arctic Sea Ice Data Products
3/27 NRL Scientists Identify New Coupling Mode Between Stratosphere and Ionosphere
4/6 Experiment Explores Optics with iPad
4/9 NRL Researchers Discover New Solar Feature
5/3 NRL Charges Marine Corps Expeditionary Power Requirements
5/17 NRL RAIDS Experiment Advances Ionospheric Remote Sensing


Featured Stories
1/9 Naval Oceanography Admiral Visits NRL-SSC
1/11 Dr. Weilin Hou and Mr. Bob Arnone Selected to Chair
SPIE Ocean Sensing and Monitoring IV
1/18 Dr. Robert H. Evans Recognized with Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
1/19 Dr. Bradley Ringeisen Honored with Commanding Officer's Award for Achievement in the Field of Equal Employment Opportunity
1/23 Dr. Brian Bennett Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
2/13 Hart Middle School Students Sample a Day at NRL
2/21 Meeting the Challenges of Spacecraft Research at NRL
2/22 Dr. Phillip Sprangle Honored with Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
3/2 Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Michael W. Seal Commissioned
3/16 White House S&T Advisor the Honorable Dr. John Holdren Tours Naval Research Laboratory
3/21 Dr. Brett Dunlap named American Physical Society Fellow
3/29 Dr. Frances Ligler Elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineer's College of Fellows
3/30 Dr. Debra Rolison Receives Dual Honors for Advancements in Chemistry
4/16 NRL Oceanographer Coaches Junior High Robotics Team
4/17 Space Shuttle Discovery Flies Over Washington
4/25 NRL Voted as a Top Place to Work for Postdocs
4/30 NRL Intern from Naval Academy Presents Summer Work at AGU OS12
5/7 Dr. Baruch Levush Receives IEEE Harry Diamond Award
5/14 Dr. Megan Sassin Honored by American Chemical Society with Rising Star Award
5/21 Dr. C. Michael Roland Receives the 2012 Charles Goodyear Medal