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Lamont Weekly Report – January
23, 2004
OFFICE
OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964
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– Letter from the Director –
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We are very pleased to announce the initiation of the search
for the first appointee to a new position within the Observatory
to be called the Bruce C. Heezen Senior Research Scientist.
The advertisement that will appear in Science, Nature and
Eos in the coming weeks can be viewed at http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/ldeo/empl/post/heezen_ad.html
I thank Bill Ryan and Paul Richards for agreeing to co-chair
the search committee. The position is supported by new endowment
resources received from the estate of Bruce's mother Esther
Dauch.
I spent Wednesday evening and Thursday in DC serving on an
NSF Special Purpose Review Panel for the Earthscope Project
Execution Plan. Despite my time at NSF, this was a new experience.
It was not an anonymous panel (obviously, because otherwise
I would not be telling you about it!), and after submission
of our written reviews we spent most of the day face-to-face
with the PIs themselves, listening to their rebuttal of our
reviews quite a different process from the standard NSF procedure.
The focus was on implementation and management issues rather
than the science (it is a $219M project) so it was not as
much fun as it could have been.
(Hint: if you want to impress re. your management skills
talk about EVM it is the latest fashion, and in fact is gong
to be required by NSF for the management of large projects.
EVM means 'earned value management')
There is no higher priority in my office right now than resolving
the issue of leadership for our administrative services. I
am continuing to meet with the Associate Directors and with
the administrative managers to get input and ideas on how
best to move forward - not specifically with regard to the
identity of individuals to serve as Administrator (as previously
defined), but rather on the structure - the management structure
- that would be most appropriate, that would best enable us
to move forward. This will be an important topic of discussion
at the next meeting of ExCom. I have committed to making a
decision about the nature of any new structure that we may
devise by early February. Any required search or searches
for new individuals will commence immediately after that.
Have a great weekend, and keep warm,
– Mike
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