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Lamont Weekly Report – March 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
I spent two days at a Marine Mammal Commission advisory committee
meeting in DC this week, as well as a reception on the Hill,
organized by CORE. Despite the bleak short-term outlook with
the 06 budget requests the community continues its efforts
to use the reports from the two recent Ocean Commissions to
build increased support for matters oceanographic among our
legislators - a few Washington luminaries were there including
John McCain, Leon Panetta, Jim Watkins. There was also a meeting
of the Board of Governors of CORE, which bringing as it does,
the Directors and Deans of every major academic ocean activity
in the nation together in one room, is inevitably an interesting
experience.
Earlier this week I received the final navigation report
from EWING as she came alongside in Narragansett Bay Rhode
Island and began her demobilization operations - it was a
very nostalgic moment - the end of an era. I went down to
Jacksonville Florida last Friday night and met the ship as
she made her first US port call after her long and difficult
cruise in Mexican waters. It was a source of pride to listen
to the accounts first hand from the Captain and crew of what
they had been through these past weeks, and realize the extent
to which their professionalism and skill had prevented some
very difficult situations from becoming international incidents.
We are planning some ways to recognize EWING's many substantial
contributions to earth sciences - news on this in coming weeks.
It was more than 20 years ago that I promised my brother's
eldest daughter, who was ten years old at the time, that I
would attend her wedding. She is holding me to that promise
next week - which is why tomorrow I fly to Auckland New Zealand.
I will be more careful with my promises in the future, not
that this will not be an excellent family event - it will
assuredly be so - but more hours breathing low-oxygen airline
atmospheres is not what I want…… So I will be
away all next week - back in the office the middle of the
following week, most likely burned to a crisp by the sun of
the tropical summer at the northernmost tip of North Island.
Have a great weekend,
– Mike
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