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Arden Warner (born 1965 or 1964) is a Barbadian-American particle
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and
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, working at the
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(Fermilab), notable for the creation of a novel environmentally positive, magnetism-based method for cleaning up
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s, now being developed by Fermilab and a company led by Warner.


Early life and education

Arden Ayube Warner was born in Barbados, in Eagle Hall, a part of the capital,
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, in
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parish. He had a number of brothers and sisters. He attended school at Wesley Hall Boys’ School, King Street, and
Combermere School Combermere School is a school in Barbados, one of the oldest schools in the Caribbean, established in 1695. Its alumni include several leading cricketers, David Thompson, sixth prime minister of Barbados and other politicians, several authors and ...
, Waterford, Bridgetown. He was brought up by his mother, a shopkeeper, and after he completed school, they moved to the USA, where he secured a scholarship to City College of New York, within
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, and later graduated with a degree in engineering and physics from
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. Having worked with some of the US's national laboratories, Warner interned at
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and the
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(SLAC), and won a fellowship to support his
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studies.


Career


Particle physics

Warner secured employment in the Accelerator Division of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (often known as ''Fermilab''), Batavia, just outside
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, Illinois, where he had been working 26 years by early 2021. He currently works on the Proton Improvement Plan II, one of Fermilab's major projects. Warner also works as a mentor for internees, and has been a member of the steering body at times since the early 1980s of Fermilab's inclusive Summer Internships in Science and Technology (SIST) program, the longest-running of the Department of Energy National Laboratory system's internship programs. As of 2021, he chairs this program.


Oil spill cleanup technology

The US
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sought input from the scientists of the national laboratories as it struggled to deal with the cleanup required after the
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event. With his wife's encouragement, Warner devised and tested an approach involving
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and booms which, with Fermilab support, he patented. The technique has been described as especially environmentally friendly, as magnetite is naturally occurring, and can be largely captured and reused. It has been mentioned in a range of magazines, including ''
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'' and ''
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''. Warner was a speaker at a TEDx conference in
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, near Chicago, in 2015. As of 2019, the technology, which was elaborated as "electromagnetic boom and MOP", was being scaled up for commercial use by a company licensed by Fermilab and led by Warner. Warner's idea was an inspiration for Irish student scientist Fionn Ferreira in his invention of a method for cleaning
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from the oceans.


Selected publications

* Lead author for ''The design and implementation of the machine protection system for the Fermilab electron cooling facility'', Warner et al., Fermilab, May 2009 * Lead author for ''Machine Protection System Research and Development for the Fermilab PIP-II Proton Linac'', Warner et al., Fermilab, October 2017


Recognition

Warner was one of 50 recipients of the ''Barbados Jubilee Honour'' in 2016.


Personal life

Warner is married. He is a member of the board of a Barbadian youth development
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, The Millennium Fund.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warner, Arden People from Bridgetown People educated at Combermere School City College of New York alumni Columbia University alumni 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists Particle physicists People associated with Fermilab Oil spill remediation technologies 21st-century American inventors Living people 1960s births Barbadian emigrants to the United States