LAMONT WEEKLY REPORT
March 14, 2003
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964
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Walter Snyder, one of the two Section Heads in the Division of Earth
Sciences at NSF, visited on Monday, and there were a number of useful discussions.
Overall Walter conveyed a very positive atmosphere at NSF with regard to
future budget increases, and, most encouraging, articulated a growing awareness
of the costs associated with essential elements that support basic research
– most notably data handling and archiving.
Wednesday was spent with Jeffrey Sachs and many colleagues at a day-long
Earth Institute retreat at which each of the six EI clusters – Earth, Biological,
Health and Social Sciences, Engineering and Applications – made presentations
describing the basic science that is fundamental to the advancement of research
in their respective areas. This was another important step towards the formulation
of the Institute’s strategic plan – a task that the EI Academic committee
is committed to completing by this summer.
The process for selection of this year’s post-doctoral fellows is complete-
I will make a public announcement of the awardees’ names next week when they
have all been contacted – as in previous years it has been a very difficult
decision-making process because the quality of the candidates is outstanding.
Compelling arguments could be made for admitting ten from this year’s list
– and we have hard money only to support two. Some innovative financial arrangements
will allow us to increase that number to three however! Many thanks
are due to Sydney Hemming and her committee for the outstanding job they
did in reviewing and rating these superb files.
And speaking of outstanding - folks who have not seen pictures of Maya
Tolstoy’s baby should make an effort to do so – his surprise arrival two
weeks earlier than predicted impacted in no way his visibly boyish charm…….
They say (those meteorologist types that is) that it will be fifty degrees
on Sunday, so for the third time this year I am overcome by blind optimism
and express with almost no confidence whatever, that winter is over.
Have a great weekend.
- Mike
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