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Lamont Weekly Report – September 23, 2005

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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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