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Lamont Weekly
Report – September 23, 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
Next Wednesday, September 28, 2005, the Cooperative Institute
for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR) will hold a
symposium on the subject of "The Climate of the Last
Millennium", the subject of the ongoing collaboration
between LDEO and GFDL.
The symposium is meant to review what we know about the changes
in global and regional climate during the late Holocene, the
relevance to society, and the underlying physical mechanisms.
It will include talks by Wally Broecker (LDEO), Lloyd Keigwin
(WHOI), Erica Hendy (LDEO), Ed Cook (LDEO), David Stahle (UARK),
David Rind (GISS), Ruth Curry (WHOI), Tom Delworth (GFDL),
Gabriel Lau (GFDL), Julien Emile Geay (LDEO), Michela Biasutti
(LDEO), and Richard Seager (LDEO). If you are planning to
attend the meeting, please RSVP to cicar@ldeo.columbia.edu.
I spent another three days in DC this week. For the last couple
of years I have been serving on a Congressionally mandated
advisory panel to the Marine Mammal Commission. The Commission
was charged by Congress to provide advice about whether anthropogenically
generated sound in the ocean constitutes a significant threat
to the global populations of marine mammals. After thousands
of hours of work by many tens of hard working individuals
the process broke down on Wednesday when agreement on the
most basic facts could not be reached. The Commission will
now write its own report to Congress without the continued
input from the Advisory committee. The primary interests represented
on the committee besides academic researchers
were the Federal agencies, including the US Navy, the oil
and gas industry, and non-governmental environmental organizations.
Although substantial agreement could be reached across many
of these caucuses, agreement across all proved impossible.
This was a very sad result that has helped little in providing
progress towards a solution to this highly charged problem
- it will continue to impact our research plans for the foreseeable
future.
We continue to make great progress with planning the new Geochem
Building and already have reached important decision points
- we will pre-empt a large portion of next Friday's ExCom
meeting to provide more information about possible building
configurations and move toward rapid decisions so that we
can keep to our ambitious schedule.
Our hearts go out to all on the Gulf Cost as Rita runs ashore.
Have a quiet weekend,
- Mike
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