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Lamont Weekly Report – June 2, 2006

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

<> REPORT SUMMARY <>

- Recent B&G Projects


- Letter from the Director

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<>RECENT B&G PROJECTS

Geoscience Computer Room A/C - Installed dual unit controller to sequence a/c units. Topsoil and seed the North side of Geoscience where lawn was damaged by equipment setting Condensing Unit in place. Job complete.

Room 201 Core Lab - Job complete - waiting for furniture delivery before moving occupants back into space.

Room 203 Core Lab - Fume hood blower installation and some shelving are all that remains.

Borehole Project: Renovation of Guest Houses 7 & 8 - HVAC systems complete and tested. Lighting, electric, painting and carpet complete in both houses. Installed new hot water heaters in both houses. Contractor working on punch list items.

Guest House 6 - This Guest House is being renovated for use by External Relations and others. Electric/lighting complete. First floor painting and trim work complete. Three upstairs offices and bathroom painted. Built and installed cabinet for coffee/microwave/fridge. Carpet on order.

Rooms 106-109 Seismology - Original block walls have been removed. Also demolished interior offices, removed all electric, phone and computer lines and pulled up carpet and floor tile. Entire space prepared for construction. Working with Contractors and Architects on new HVAC system, window and door selection. Removed all baseboard radiation and valved off for future use. Framing of new office walls complete.

Room 104 Geoscience - Replaced ceiling tile, painted 104A. Constructed and installed new sink unit and conference table for main module and maple desktop for 104A. Installed double doors between 104A and main module.

Miscellaneous -
Painted 104B and 104D Maritime Offices.
Topsoil and seed soccer field to repair damage from drainage project.
Painted and carpeted room 14B Marine Biology.
Repaired and put telemetry shed antenna back up.


<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

This year's competition for the Storke-Doherty Lectureship was an extremely tough one - thank you to Bill Smethie and his review committee for doing a very thorough job - the whole process reaffirmed the quality and productivity of our post-docs and junior staff. I am very pleased to announce that Tina van der Flierdt, in the Geochemistry Division has been awarded the Lectureship effective July 1st. Many congratulations Tina - perhaps soon we can find you an office that is not in a trailer!

We hosted Columbia Trustee and major Lamont donor Gerry Lenfest for half a day on Thursday - a very successful morning, describing some of the exciting research that we are engaged in, and also giving him a detailed overview of our plans for the Geochemistry Building. He left us for a meeting with President Lee Bollinger, I hope with very positive impressions of Lamont, that I encouraged him to voice to Lee!

Speaking of the new Geochem Building, we invited over a hundred of our Campus' neighbors to a reception on Thursday evening to hear presentations about the new building along with descriptions of the timetable for progress and of the kinds of (potentially disruptive) activities that will occur during construction. Not all one hundred of our neighbors attended (!) but it was a good and constructive hour with some good questions, and with no major concerns raised. In fact - folks were very supportive.

As many of you know our good colleague John Longhi has been undergoing a series of very challenging surgeries over the past couple of weeks. I am pleased to report that he is doing well, and I am sure that I speak for all of us in wishing him a speedy and complete recovery.

We enjoyed an excellent reception on Wednesday evening to recognize Roberta Balstad's decision to step down as Director of CIESIN - very pleased that Roberta will still be around on a half time basis in the future, so we will not lose contact with her entirely and she will retain her interest and leadership in the ADVANCE program. Good luck in the future, Roberta and we look forward to continuing our work with you.

So, June is here, I can no longer see the river (because of the leaves AND the fog), and on Sunday I get to go play in a US Navy Los Angeles Class attack submarine in Groton (big boys - big toys etc)

Have a great weekend,




- Mike


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