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Lamont Weekly Report – March 3, 2006

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

<> REPORT SUMMARY <>

- Recent New Hires


- Recent B&G Projects


- Letter from the Director

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<> RECENT NEW HIRES

For the period 1/1-31/06

Johnstone, Jay
01-02-06
Science Officer
Office of Marine Operations

Pahnke, Katharina
01-01-06
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Geochemistry

Marrone, Margaret
01-03-06
Administrative AIde
Administration

Ward, Jeffrey
01-02-06
Lab Assistant
Geochemistry
Babbin, Andrew
01-25-06
Casual
Geochemistry

Voronin, Sergey
01-04-06
Casual
Marine Geology & Geophysics

Johansson, Annika
01-30-06
Casual
Director's Office


<> RECENT B&G PROJECTS

Geoscience Computer Room A/C - Ran power for A/C unit. System will
be tested and put into service the week of March 6th.

Room 201 Core Lab - Room has been completely emptied and construction
started Monday, February 20th. New office walls erected,
sheetrocked, taped and spackled. Electrical - computer and phone
wiring roughed into walls.

Room 203 Core Lab - Casework installation complete. New fume hood
blower and laminar flow hood on order.

Room 302 Oceanography - Wall panels for offices installed, carpet
laid, furniture moved back in. Installed a wall-hung kitchen cabinet
over sink unit and now making a conference table. Job will be
complete with delivery of the conference table.

Room 303E and 303F Oceanography - Carpet installed, furniture moved
back into the rooms, job complete.

Seismology 114 - This space is being renovated for the I.T. group.
Room completely renovated including the construction of benches and
shelving. Office 114C has also been renovated. Carpet installation
scheduled for Tuesday, March 7th.

Borehole Project - Renovation of Guest Houses 7 & 8 underway.
Interiors of both houses have been gutted. Framing of new spaces
underway along with electrical roughing in. HVAC contractor
installing heating /cooling equipment.

Guest House #6 - This Guest House is being renovated for use by
External Relations and others. New electric service and main panel
installed. Additional electric, phone and computer lines run to all
spaces (future offices). Sheetrocked kitchen and "living room"
ceiling. Rest of house being prepped for painting. Assembling
quotes for a new HVAC system.


<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

It has been a busy week, again. Tuesday was spent in Washington at a
meeting of the Ocean Council - continuing its work to build a single
organization to represent the interests of ocean sciences in DC. On
Wednesday we held an extremely successful meeting of our Advisory
Board. Quentin Kennedy has agreed to lead this Board, and working
with our Development Director Sarah Huard, he is helping us establish
an effective group of leaders dedicated to building the capabilities
and resources of the Observatory. The highlight of the meeting was a
keynote talk at the evening reception by Peter Kelemen who,
heroically, arrived at the meeting directly from JFK after suffering
a more than 24 hour delay in his return flights from Europe.

A big chunk of snowy Thursday was devoted to wrestling with the
Observatory budgets for 2007 and 2008 - figuring out ways to insure
that adequate resources are available to support the new Geochem
building, build the required new parking lot while handling the
campus' skyrocketing utility costs. Not fun.

And today began with a marathon ExCom and ended with two important
and successful events - the first a detailed report from the ADVANCE
program's assessment of the work environment here on the Lamont
campus, and the second, the first in a series of talks organised
under the banner of 'Science of Diversity' - a brilliant and
informative talk by social scientist Valerie Purdie-Vaughns from Yale.

Next week takes me back to DC - Board of Governors meeting for
CORE, a bunch of Congressional visits on the Hill - but best of all,
dinner with the great Frank Press. That will make it all
worthwhile. Most importantly, next week, Jeff Sachs is holding a
Town Meeting here in the Monell Auditorium - Friday, March 10th 1pm.

Have a great weekend,



- Mike



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