Lamont Weekly Report – August 6, 2004

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

<> REPORT SUMMARY <>

– Recent Grant Awards –
– Recent Publications –
– Curent B&G Projects –
– Letter from the Director –
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<> RECENT GRANT AWARDS

Cook, E., Jacoby, G., D'Arrigo, R., Buckley, B. - Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Asian Monsoon Climate Dynamics, NSF.

Someshwar, S., Climate forecast applications for disaster mitigation in South East Asia. Demonstrations tools, and capacity building, US Agency of International Development.

Lall, U., Taddeo, R., IRI water management resource project, FUNCEME, CEARA.

Zappa, C., Investigating wave processes important to air-sea fluxes using infrared technique, ONR/DOD.

Bell, R., Visbeck, M., Schlosser, P., Chillrud, S. Subcontract from Pace University for EPA riverscope, Pace University.

Stark, C., Vecer, E., Year 2 of EAR02-29846: A Stochastic differential equation approach to studying landslide failure and size distributions, NSF.

Broecker, W., Denton, G., Greenland younger dryas project, CSEF.

Schaefer, J., Schlosser, P., The final implementation step of the LDEO surface exposure dating laboratory, CSEF.

<> 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).

Carbotte, S.M., C. Small, and K. Donnelly. The influence of ridge migration on the magmatic segmentation of mid-ocean ridges; Nature, vol. 429, no. 6993, pp. 743-746, June 17, 2004.

Cheng, Z.Q., A. van Geen, C.Y. Jing, X.G. Meng, A. Seddique, and K.M. Ahmed. Performance of a household-level arsenic removal system during 4-month deployments in Bangladesh; Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 3442-3448, June 15, 2004

Cheng, Z., Y. Zheng, R. Mortlock, A .van Geen; Rapid multi-element analysis of groundwater by high-resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol. 379, no. 3, pp. 512-518, June, 2004.

Dong, C.M., R. Houghton, H.W. Ou, D. Chen, and T. Ezer.
Numerical study of the diapycnal flow through a tidal front with passive tracers; Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, vol. 109, no. C5, Art. No. C05029, May 26, 2004.

Gordon, A.L. and C.F. Giulivi. Pacific decadal oscillation and sea level in the Japan/East sea; Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 653-663, May, 2004

Hellweger, F.L., A.F. Blumberg, P. Schlosser, D.T. Ho, T. Caplow, U. Lall, H.H. Li. Transport in the Hudson estuary: A modeling study of estuarine circulation and tidal trapping; Estuaries, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 527-538, June, 2004

Muttoni, G., A. Nicora, P. Brack, and D.V. Kent. Integrated Anisian-Ladinian boundary chronology; Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, vol. 208, no. 1-2, pp. 85-102, May 31, 2004.

Ortiz, J.D., S.B. O'Connell, J. DelViscio, W. Dean, J.D. Carriquiry, T. Marchitto, Y. Zheng, and A. van Geen. Enhanced marine productivity off western North America during warm climate intervals of the past 52 ky; Geology, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 521-524, June, 2004.

Rietbrock, A. and F. Waldhauser. A narrowly spaced double-seismic zone in the subducting Nazca plate; Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 31, no. 10, Art. No. L10608, May 22, 2004.

Schaff, D.P. and P.G. Richards. Lg-wave cross correlation and double-difference location: Application to the 1999 Xiuyan, China, sequence; Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 94, no 3, pp. 867-879, June, 2004.

Takahashi, T. The fate of industrial carbon dioxide; Science, vol. 305, no. 5682, pp. 352-353, July 16, 2004.

Visbeck, M. and A. Hall. Comments on ''Synchronous variability in the southern hemisphere atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean resulting from the annular mode'' - Reply; Journal of Climate, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 2255-2258, June, 2004.

< > CURRENT B&G PROJECTS

• Oceanography Emergency Generator:
  Attended Acabor meeting on July 20th. Approved with conditions. Submitted application for final Planning Board meeting September 8th (no meetings in August). Also submitted application for Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) Meeting tentatively scheduled for end of September (again, no meetings in August).

• Marine Biology, Room 13:
  Casework installation complete. Job complete.

• Left Hand Turn Lane / Front Entrance:
  Contractor scheduled to blacktop (base coat only) new front entrance Monday, August 9th. They will then remove the existing entrance.

• Geoscience Walk-In Freezer:
  Freezer components delivered and arrangements for rental freezer underway.

• Instrument Lab:
  Contractor working on completing work and addressing punch list items.

• Geochemistry, Room 3:
  Plumbing and electrical complete. Lab is operational and 3 fume hoods connected to old exhaust blowers until the replacement blowers arrive.

• Kelemen Renovations:
  Room 58 Geochemistry set to be carpeted Monday, August 9th. Countertops built and scheduled for installation next week. Arranging temporary space for furniture storage in order to start renovating rooms 51 and 52

• Seismology Renovations:
  101, 108, 114a, 114b, 114f, 114g new ceilings, painted walls, carpeted and installed blinds.

• Marine Biology, Labs 2 and 3:
  Assembling quotes for new casework. These two smaller labs will be combined (by removing some block walls) to provide more useful lab space.

• Tropical Agriculture, Room 2G Lamont Hall:
  Renovated space previously occupied by External Relations.

• Miscellaneous:
  – Replaced A/C in 204 Core Lab.
  – Replaced A/C 1st floor Borehole.
  – Installed irrigation system in Greenhouse.

<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

’You don't eat anything that I can cook’ was my daughter’s typically astute response to my question about why, during my visit with her last weekend in San Diego, we ate all our meals in local restaurants. I have yet to come up with a clever response to that troublesome reality, but extortionate La Jolla restaurant bills aside, I had a great day and a half of escape on Saturday and Sunday between visiting EWING at the Scripps Marine Facility and meeting with Scripps Director Charlie Kennel on Monday morning.

I have many items of good news to report this week. We have two new members of the Senior Staff at the Observatory – Xiaojun Yuan and Alexey Kaplan – both in Ocean and Climate Physics. Please congratulate them when next you see them – this is a tough hurdle to overcome and they both richly deserve this promotion and the recognition that comes with it.

We have also added a new Doherty Associate Research Scientist to the Marine Geology and Geophysics Division – Mladen Nedimovic – whose innovative work on processing marine seismics is well known to many.

Substantial progress is being made in the renovation of a part of the campus that is known to comparatively few: - the Instrument Laboratory. With the expansions needed to accommodate the new IODP contract for the Borehole Research Group (BRG), new instrumentation and new facilities have been installed and the new spaces are close to completion. Much remains to be done to accommodate the needs of BRG, but this is a good beginning.

A few stalwarts continue to fight the battle with the warehouse rescue project. I have previously reported that the back wall of the warehouse was recently spotted for the first time in decades – now sufficient progress has been made so that it is possible to drive a forklift through the warehouse, around the back and out to the parking lot along the south side. All three segments of this path have been blocked with ‘stuff’ for years. The down side is that in spite of disposing (properly) of about 10 dumpsters full of ‘stuff', there is still no space, so we need to continue working on this. The principal heroes in this are Dale Chayes and Paul Ljunggren and of course Tom Eberhard, with help from many others. Thank you, gentlemen.

Important news from Morningside is the appointment of the new Vice President for Art and Sciences (to whom the Chair of DEES reports) – he is Nick Dirks, who has been at CU since 1997, and most recently was Chair of the Department of Anthropology. I will work with Nick Christie-Blick to schedule a visit for Professor Dirks to our campus as soon as possible in the fall.

That's it for this week. The summer is somehow slipping by. I am in DC again Tuesday and Wednesday of next week for a CORE retreat (Consortium for Oceanographic research and Education), but otherwise I am around.

Have a great weekend,

– Mike

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