<> ROOF REPLACEMENT/REPAIR SCHEDULE

Please do not park at the north end of the Oceanography Building until the roof replacement is complete.

Oceanography Building roof replacement/repair schedule
(which may change depending on the weather)

Monday evening, May 19 - Pinnacle will remove south half of high roof

Tuesday, May 20 - HiTech will make the southern half main roof watertight

Tuesday evening, May 20 - Pinnacle will remove north half of main roof

Wednesday, May 21 - HiTech will make northern half of the roof watertight

Wednesday evening, May 21, Pinnacle will remove lower roof and front entrance roof

Thursday, May 22, HiTech will make lower roof and front entrance roof watertight

Once the roof is watertight HiTech will start installing the tapered insulation and roofing material.  This phase could take up to a week.

The final phase of the project includes detail work - flashings, new railing drains, gravel, etc.  The final phase could easily take 2-3 weeks to complete.

The roof repair/replacement on the Geochemistry and Core Lab buildings are complete, except for the final phase of gravel.



<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Please do not forget the Lamont Ball on Saturday night - Lamont Hall at 7pm - I look forward to seeing many of you there. On Sunday afternoon there is our penultimate Public Lecture, led by the Tree Ring Lab.

Tuesday, May 20th there will be the announcement of the Third Annual Mentoring award - 3pm in the Monell auditorium.

Earlier this week, we held the inaugural meeting of a committee, chaired by Paul Ljunggren, charged with proposing policies that will enable us to convert the warehouse into a useful facility again. This is a tough mission, but essential if we are to expand our field and observational activities. Target for production of the recommendations is July 1st.

Earlier today ExCom approved the first two appointments to come out of our recruiting campaign - one in Remote Sensing and one in Solid Earth Dynamics - these are both superb appointments. When the offers have been accepted and the formalities are complete, I will include brief descriptions of these individuals in this report.

Many of us continue to work hard on the process of generating the Strategic Plan for LDEO, for the Earth Sciences Cluster of the Earth Institute and for the Earth Institute overall. A presentation by Jeff Sachs and myself, to provide everyone with an update on this important process has been scheduled for May 29th here in the Monell Auditorium - try to keep that morning clear in your schedule.

Have a great weekend,

- Mike

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