2013 News Releases


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Scientific & Technical Interest
1/10 NRL's SECCHI Captures Super-Elastic Collision of
Coronal Mass Ejections
1/14 NRL Designs Multi-Junction Solar Cell to Break Efficiency Barrier
2/1 NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms
2/4 NRL's Dr. George Carruthers Honored with
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
2/8 Violent Nabro Eruption Shown to Pierce Stratosphere
2/19 Radio Telescope, GPS Use Ionosphere to Detect Nuclear Tests
2/25 NRL Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP
3/20 NRL Nike Laser Focuses on Nuclear Fusion
3/27 NRL Develops Polymer Nanofibers for Chemical and Biological Decontamination
3/29 NRL Researchers Develop New Monolayer Materials for
Chemical Vapor Sensors
4/2 NRL Scientists "See" Flux Rope Formation for the First Time
4/12 First GPS NAVSTAR Satellite Goes on Display
4/17 Navy Develops High Impact, High Integrity Polymer for Air, Sea, and Domestic Applications
4/18 NRL's CT-Analyst Supports Presidential Inauguration
4/23 NRL Researcher Looks to Gamma Rays to Uncover Origin of Cosmic Rays
4/25 NRL Hosts 2nd Gulf Coast Regional SeaPerch Challenge
5/9 NRL Shatters Endurance Record for Small Electric UAV
5/13 NRL's MIGHTI Slated for Launch on ICON Mission
5/15 NRL Space Test Program Experiments Ship to Japan for Flight to the ISS
5/29 NRL Geochemistry Survey at Chatham Rise Reveals Absence of Modern Day Greenhouse Gas Emissions
6/10 Incoherent Combining of Fiber Lasers Developed for Directed
Energy Applications
6/12 NRL Researchers Hope to Shed Light on Dark Lightning Radiation


Featured Stories
1/7 Arthur Merat Receives Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
1/17 Dr. Melinda Peng Elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
2/15 Dr. Craig Bishop Named Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
2/20 Navy Researchers, Reservists Evaluate Novel Passive Sonar Surveillance Methods
2/25 NRL Researcher Discusses Benthic Fuel Cells, Electricity from Wastewater, and Fuel from CO2
3/26 Dr. Michelle Johannes Named Fellow of the American Physical Society
4/16 Dr. John Montgomery Elected to National Academy of Engineering
5/16 Charles Harden Visits Ex-USS Shadwell
5/20 NRL Technology Recognized for Innovative Operational Use
6/3 Paul Jaffe Named VADM Gravely STEM Diversity Champion of the Year
6/5 NRL Scientists Recognized for Cost-Saving Paints
6/7 Dr. Francis Klemm presented with Navy Distinguished
Civilian Service Award
6/10 Dr. Brian Houston Receives Arthur E. Bisson Naval Technology Achievement Award