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CEMML intern wins 2024 Great Plains CESU Award

Levin Brandt, an intern with CEMML’s Early-career Development Program, was presented with the annual Great Plains CESU Graduate Student Award for his outstanding work supporting ecosystems on Air Force installations in Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, and North Dakota. Mr. Brandt is a graduate student in Biology at the University of North Dakota.

November 8, 2024

CEMML helps preserve history of nuclear submarines and ships

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy was keen on developing nuclear-powered engines to propel submarines and aircraft carriers. Prototyping and testing of these reactors took place at the Nuclear Propulsion Program’s Naval Reactors Facility in Idaho. CEMML has supported the NRF in documenting and preserving the history of this landmark development site and the engineers who worked there.

November 5, 2024

NAVFAC, CEMML battle brown tree snake to protect Guam’s endangered swiftlets

In a video by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Marianas, CEMML invasive species biologist, Virginie Ternisien explains how she uses dead mice laced with acetaminophen to reduce brown tree snake populations on Guam. The invasive predator is a major threat to the endangered Mariana swiftlet, a small cave-dwelling bird native to the Mariana Islands.

October 30, 2024