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Lamont Weekly Report – February
11, 2005
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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<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
Because Monday and Tuesday were spent in Washington, this
has been a short (but busy) week.
We received the final Audit report from the CU Audit Department
- we will present that to ExCom later in the month, but suffice
it to say that in my judgment, we came out extremely well.
As always there are areas of our operations that can be improved,
but the recommendations are for incremental improvements -
no systemic flaws were found. This is a tribute to the many
folks in our administration who keep us honest and insure
that our business is carried out as it should be. Thank you
to all.
The release of the Presidents budget request for 2006 brings
some sobering realities - tiny increases requested for NSF,
and the Ocean Observations MREFC initiative is delayed to
2007. The new vessel for the Ocean Drilling Program, however
is fully funded (in the request, at least!) over 06 and 07
which is very good news. But the priorities of Federal spending
remain misguided. Relatively tiny investments in high quality
basic research time and time again have yielded vast returns
to the benefit of the national economy. Yet when the economy
is pressured it is the academic research community that is
one of the first to feel the pain. But I am preaching to the
choir and we are far far away from knowing what the 06 budget
will actually look like……..
As part of our continuing efforts to improve communications
with the leadership of Morningside we entertained Associate
Provost Roxy Smith on Thursday afternoon - Roxy works closely
with Provost Alan Brinkley and will, we hope, visit us again
in the next few weeks so we can continue to explain the many
different activities ongoing here at Lamont.
With (the NSF target date) February 15th a few days away,
I doubt this weekend will be much fun for most, but have a
good one anyway,
– Mike
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