crescent Earth viewed from space
Office of the Director  
 
LDEO Home
Director's Home
Staff
Governance
Speeches and Reports
Weekly Reports
Internal Awards
Policies and Procedures
Committees
Development
Publications Office
 
 
PREVIOUS                               NEXT

Lamont Weekly Report – February 6, 2004

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964

<> REPORT SUMMARY <>

– Recent Grant Awards –
– Recent Publications –
– Recent New Hires –
– Letter from the Director –
____________________________________

<> RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Kaplan, A., Request for Subcontract, a 19th Century Data Catalog for New England and Adjacent States, Univ. Mass.

Cane, M., Kaplan, A., Errors in Sea Level Height Analysis. Accounting for the Small-Scale and Short-Term Variability, NOAA.

Zappa, C., Airborne Infrared Measurements for Cblast-Low, ONR.
Weissel, J., Stark, C., Hovius, N., Renewal of NAG5-8848: Landslide Mechanisms and Hazar Assessment in Mountain Regions of the Pacific Rim, NASA.

Stark, C., Continental-Wide Estimation and Calibration of Catchment Hydrologic Parameters Using SRTM and Laser Altimeter Data, NASA.

Steckler, M., Seeber, L., Small, C., Synoptic monitoring of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta-Multihazard Potential of a Tectonically Active Delta, NASA.

Kastens, K., Collaborative Proposal: Steps Towards Ensuring Quality and Selectivity of the DLESE Collections, NSF.

Weissel, J., Barbour, J., Landslides, Typhoons, and TRMM: Linking Climate and Geomorphology in Taiwan Through a New Application of Radar Precipitation Measurements, NASA.

Esmay, P., East Coast Repository Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A*M

Chillrud, S., Kenna, T., Identifying Sources of Non-Fallout Nuclear Contamination in Hudson River Sediments by Plutonium and Neptunium Isotope Ratios: Sensitive Tracers of Sediment Transport, Hudson River Foundation.

Scholz, C., Collaborative Research: Experimental Study of Competing Mechanisms of Pressure Solution in HALTE, BiNational Science Foundation.

Diebold, J., Purdy, G.M., Walsh, A., Upgrade of Multichannel Seismic Capabilities on the Research Vessel Maurice Ewing, NSF.

Chen, R., CIESIN: The 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, START.

Balstad-Miller, R., Levy, M., CIESIN: USAID Watch List, International Sciences.


<> RECENT PUBLICATIONS
(The following list is derived from the Lamont Publications Database which identifies all publications that hold a Lamont contribution number, thereby qualifying the publications as a Lamont paper).

Cramer, B.S., J,D, Wright, D.V. Kent, M.P. Aubry. Orbital climate forcing of delta C-13 excursions in the late Paleocene-early Eocene (chrons C24n-C25n) Paleoceanography, vol. 18, no. 4, Art. No. 1097, December 18, 2003.

Gildor, H., A.H. Sobel, M.A. Cane, and R.N. Sambrotto. A role for ocean biota in tropical intraseasonal atmospheric variability; Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 30, no. 9, Art. No. 1460, May 3, 2003.

Harnik, N. and E.K.M. Chang. The effects of variations in jet width on the growth of baroclinic waves: Implications for midwinter Pacific storm track variability; Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences , vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 23-40, January, 2004.

Kent, D.V., B.S. Cramer, L. Lanci, D. Wang, J.D. Wright, and R. Van der Voo. Comment on "A case for a comet impact trigger for the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum and carbon isotope excursion" - Reply; Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 217. no. 1-2, pp. 201-205, January 1, 2004.

Kukla, G. and J. Gavin. Milankovitch climate reinforcements; Global and Planetary Change, vol. 40, no. 1-2, pp. 27-48, January, 2004.

Stark, C.P., J, Stewart, and C.J. Ebinger. Wavelet transform mapping of effective elastic thickness and plate loading: Validation using synthetic data and application to the study of southern African tectonics; Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 108, no. B12, Art. No. 2558, December 12, 2003.

Steblov, G.M., M.G. Kogan, R.W. King, C.H. Scholz, R. Burgmann, and D.I. Frolov. Imprint of the North American plate in Siberia revealed by GPS; Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 30, no. 18, Art. No. 1924, September 17, 2003.

Studinger, M., G.D. Karner, R.E. Bell, V. Levin, C.A. Raymond, and A.A. Tikku. Geophysical models for the tectonic framework of the Lake Vostok region, East Antarctica; Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 216, no. 4, pp. 663-677, December 10, 2003.

Vaillancourt, R.D., R.N. Sambrotto, S. Green, and A. Matsuda. Phytoplankton biomass and photosynthetic competency in the summertime Mertz Glacier Region of East Antarctica,; Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography, vol. 50, pp. 1415-1440, 2003.

van Geen, A., Y. Zheng, J.M. Bernhard, K.G. Cannariato, J. Carriquiry, W.E. Dean, B.W. Eakins, J.D. Ortiz, and J. Pike. On the preservation of laminated sediments along the western margin of North America; Paleoceanography, vol. 8, no. 4, Art. No. 1098, December 18, 2003.


<> RECENT NEW HIRES
For the period 1/1/2004 - 1/31/2004

Barker, Stephen
01/13/04
Post Doctoral Res. Fellow
Biology & Paleo Environment

Barry-Biss, Laura
01/30/04
Administrative Assistant
Oceanography

Biasutti, Michela
01/01/04
Post Doctoral Research Scientist
Oceanography

Dong, Pingliang
01/12/04
Staff Associate
CIESIN

Graindorge, David
01/07/04
Post Doctoral Res. Scientist
MG&G

Hartin, Corinne A.
01/06/04
Casual
MG&G

Hopton, Heather M.
01/25/04
Casual
Biology & Paleo Environment

Ou, Melissa H.
01/09/04
Casual
Oceanography

Petreshock, Karol Anne
01/26/04
Casual
MG&G

Subramaniam, Ajit
01/15/04
Doherty Associate Research Scientist
Biology & Paleo. Environment


<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

I spent three days this week at a formal meeting of a newly formed advisory committee to the Marine Mammal Commission (an independent Federal agency) who has been charged by Congress to evaluate the impacts of anthropogenically generated noise on marine mammals. This is an issue of grave concern to all oceanographers, because so many of our observation systems use sound. So little knowledge concerning how marine mammals respond to sound exists, so extreme claims of harm are difficult to rebut. WHOI and Scripps, along with CORE, represent academia on this Committee that is made up of environmental NGOs, representatives of the oil industry, the shipping industry, and very senior representation from the US Navy. There will be four or so more meetings over the next 18 months, before the final report is completed.

So I got home at ten last night, and rolled into work this morning for this month's ExCom meeting at 9:00am. In addition to some important promotion issues we discussed plans for building new leadership for the Central Administration, and discussed the input into the University's budget process this year regarding needed buildings and infrastructure, the subject of an important meeting at the Earth Institute yesterday.

Unquestionably the most important news of the week is the formal approval by the University's Committee on Instruction of a FIVE-year experiment for Frontiers of Science, the first and only science course to be introduced to the CU Core Curriculum since it all began in 1919. DEES controls 25 per cent of this curriculum, and this will change completely the nature and extent of or interaction with the undergraduate population - an extremely healthy and positive development for the Observatory.

Now I must rush to the Auditorium and enjoy Taro's lecture and reception. I hope to see many of you there.

Have a great weekend,

– Mike
____________________________________

You can subscribe / unsubscribe to the Lamont Weekly Report mailing list.

– To subscribe - send your request to:
majordomo@ldeo.columbia.edu
Subject: Request
The following command must be in the BODY of the message not in the subject:

subscribe lamont-l <email address>

– To unsubscribe - send your request to:
majordomo@ldeo.columbia.edu
Subject: Request
The following command must be in the BODY of the message not in the subject:

unsubscribe lamont-l <email address>

If you have questions or problems send e-mail to the list owner:
owner-lamont-l@ldeo.columbia.edu


 
Search:

 



LDEO home | search | webmaster | site map | terms-of-use | support LDEO
Copyright © 2003 by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
All rights reserved.

Note: This web site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher or Netscape 6.0 and higher.