Lamont Weekly Report – April 7, 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 3/1/06 - 3/31/06

DeGruccio, Charles
03/01/06
Programmer
CIESIN

Hanneman, Maryann
03/20/06
Office Assistant
Administration

Holloway, Bernadette
03/28/06
Project Coordinator
Administration

Marrone, Margaret
03/06/06
Casual
Administration

Rollins, Nathan
03/20/06
Research Staff Assistant
Geochemistry


<> RECENT B&G PROJECTS

Geoscience Computer Room A/C - System tested and put into service
Thursday, March 6th. Installed return air grill in dividing wall to
balance air flow between the two rooms.

Room 201 Core Lab - Door trim installed. Room painted and carpeted.

Ready to reoccupy.

Room 203 Core Lab - Laminar Flow Hood delivered and set up. Fume
hood blower still on order.

Seismology 114 - Carpet installation complete. Benches and shelving
set up. Traffic moved IT group to their new space.

Borehole Project - Renovation of Guest Houses 7 and 8 well underway.

HVAC contractor has installed heating/cooling equipment in both
houses. All electric, computer, phone and fire alarm wiring roughed
in both houses.
House 8 insulated, sheetrocked and spackling underway.
House 7 insulated and sheetrocked.

Guest House 6 - This guest house is being renovated for use by
External Relations and others. New doors installed.
Office #1 on the first floor walls sheetrocked and suspended ceiling
installed. Conference room sheetrocked walls and ceiling.
Office #2 on first floor patched walls and installed suspended
ceilings. Rest of house has been prepped for painting.
New HVAC system installation complete.

Seismology 106-109 - Traffic has removed film cabinets room 106. All

suspended ceilings/lights rooms 106, 107, 108 removed.
Electric, phone, computer wiring etc. mounted on block walls removed
in preparation of block wall demolition during the week of 4/10.

Geochemistry Room 38 - Unistrut benches constructed and provided
additional electric service to room.

Geoscience Room 104 - Section of wall removed and framed for new
doors between 104A and main module. Sheetrocked surrounding area to
match existing. Doors on order (4 weeks). Office furniture
construction underway.


<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Coming home from Salt Lake City on the red-eye last Friday night was
about as much fun as a hole in the head - but at least landing at
Newark at 530am means no delays, and no traffic. My last day out West
was spent at the annual meeting of the members of the international
corporation (of which we are one) that runs the drilling program -
IODP, the current President of which is ex-Lamont Director Manik
Talwani. Interesting times: operations of the massive Japanese riser
drilling ship Chikyu are fast becoming a reality - it will start
doing real science in 2007.

Tuesday morning had me catching the 8am shuttle down to DC for a JOI
Board of Governors meeting, a meeting of the JOI alliance leadership
(LDEO, TAMU and JOI), and an excellent conversation with John
Marburger at OSTP.

I got back from DC late Wednesday night, and survived a three hour
marathon ExCom this morning, and am now looking forward to a week
without travel next week, and wondering about the statistics of
actually being called for Jury Duty (as I have been for April 17th.)

Looking forward to Juerg Matter's Public Lecture this Sunday
afternoon - have a great weekend,



- Mike





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