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Mid-Continent News Briefs 2007 FLC Mid-Continent / Far West Regional Conference The FLC Mid-Continent and Far West regions hold their joint 2007 Fall meeting September 10-12, at the newly restored and expanded Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, in beautiful San Diego, CA. The setting provided a unique environment geared for networking opportunities, and our conference and training sessions. Presentations from the meeting are available at www.flc-fw.org/meeting New Leadership in the Region  On October 1, 2007 Pat Rodriguez and Deb Covey turned over their roles as Regional and Deputy coordinators to the newly elected officers Mid-Continent officers.
Mike Crane, from the Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, CO is the new Mid-Continent Regional Coordinator and has been working with Pat Rodriguez to insure a smooth transition in regional leadership. Crane was introduced to the region at our recent joint FLC Regional meeting with the Far West September 10-12 in San Diego. Linsenmeyer introduced Deiter at the joint Far West / Mid Continent regional meeting.
Prior to that post Sprake served 4 years as FLC Mid-Continent regional coordinator.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Signs CRADA and License Agreement with Carbon Designs, Inc.
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Doug Tunison, of the DOE's
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center, is the new Deputy Coordinator and a long time participant in the FLC Mid-Continent region.
J. Scott Deiter of the Naval Surface Warfare Center - Indian Head Division, has become the FLC's new Chair succeeding Edward Linsenmeyer, long time FLC chair and board member.
J. Susan Sprake of Los Alamos National Laboratory will retain her position as FLC Vice Chair. Ms. Sprake has served the past 2 years as FLC Vice Chair. 
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carbon Designs, Inc. (CDI), signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to collaborate on the development of ultra-strong fibers made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). CDI will initially invest $2 million in this joint effort to develop fibers expected to be many times stronger than any current engineering materials. The carbon nanotube is a scientific development stemming from the discovery of soccer-ball shaped carbon molecules in 1985 by the chemistry department at Rice University. These microscopic molecules are usually a few nanometers in diameter, or billionths of a meter; comparatively, a virus is 100 nanometers in size. The current CRADA is one of the largest sponsored research agreements ever signed by the Laboratory.
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