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Radio Telescope, GPS Use Ionosphere to Detect Nuclear Tests
February 19, 2013 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) radio astronomer, Joseph Helmboldt, Ph.D., and researchers at Ohio State University Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering analyzed radio telescope interferometry and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data recorded of the ionosphere during one of the last underground nuclear explosions (UNEs) in the U.S., codenamed Hunters Trophy... MORE

Dr. Craig Bishop Named Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
February 15, 2013 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) meteorologist, Dr. Craig Bishop, Marine Meteorology Division, has been elected a Fellow by the American Meteorological Society for outstanding contributions to data assimilation, numerical weather prediction, and mesoscale dynamics over a substantial period of years... MORE

Violent Nabro Eruption Shown to Pierce Stratosphere
February 8, 2013 — Researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate report conclusive evidence that volcanic gases and aerosols from the explosive 2011 eruption of the East Africa Nabro Volcano breached the stratosphere, unassisted by the seasonal Asian monsoonal flow... MORE

NRL's Dr. George Carruthers Honored with National Medal of Technology and Innovation
February 4, 2013 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division (SSD) scientist Dr. George Carruthers has received the 2012 National Medal of Technology and Innovation... MORE

NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms
February 1, 2013 — On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun... MORE

Dr. Melinda Peng Elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
January 17, 2013 — Dr. Melinda Peng, a meteorologist for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society... MORE

NRL Designs Multi-Junction Solar Cell to Break Efficiency Barrier
January 14, 2013 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists in the Electronics Technology and Science Division, in collaboration with the Imperial College London and MicroLink Devices, Inc., Niles, Ill., have proposed a novel triple-junction solar cell with the potential to break the 50 percent conversion efficiency barrier, which is the current goal in multi-junction photovoltaic development... MORE

NRL's SECCHI Captures Super-Elastic Collision of Coronal Mass Ejections
January 10, 2013 — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, China have captured the super-elastic collision of two coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere... MORE

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