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Lamont Weekly
Report – September 29, 2006
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
At the heart of
our business of academic research is the important process
of publishing in top-ranked
peer-reviewed journals.
This is a vitally important quality-control process without
which the credibility
of what we do would
be zero. The process of reviewing articles for journals takes
a lot of effort and
time and produces
little or no reward. But it is an activity that is critically
important to the health of our
profession. Therefore
it was with particular pride that I read in the latest issue
of the American
Geophysical Union's
weekly newspaper Eos that two Lamonters are being recognized
by AGU and
receiving the 2005
Editors Citation for Excellence in refereeing. Stan Jacobs
and Alexey Kaplan - on
behalf of all in
the community - thank you.
Of course the groundbreaking ceremony for the Geochemistry
Building on Wednesday was the highlight
of the week. There
are pictures and a write up on our web page, so I will not
be repetitive here. Needless
to say, it was
a wonderful afternoon, and proved to be a true 'ground breaking'
- the real site excavation
began on Thursday
immediately after the tent was removed. We found a copy of
the official program for the
opening of the
existing Geochem Building - the ceremony was on Friday October
15th from 6 til 1030pm in
the year 1954.
It must have been a great party! I am having the document
scanned in and we will get it up on
our web page
The joy of Wednesday was tainted by the sad news that J. Laurence
Kulp, the founder of Geochemistry at
Lamont, died in
a tragic accident a couple of days previously - we had expected
him to attend the ground
breaking - he had
accepted our invitation. There is a write-up on Professor
Kulp on our Alumni web page
(http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/ldeo/alum/assoc/index.html).
Today CU announced its new fund raising campaign - the target
is $4B - the largest ever announced by a
University. So
there have been a host of events downtown the last couple
of days, including an enjoyable
dinner at the President's
house last night, and today Mark Cane and I spent most of
the day entertaining
potential donors
with exciting tales of significant Lamont research.
Another busy week coming up - a second trip to Boston for
shipyard negotiations, a NOAA external review
of our Cooperative
Institute on Wednesday and Thursday, followed by ExCom, an
Advisory Board Meeting,
a dinner for our
Torrey Cliff Society, and all topped off with our Annual Open
Day on Saturday.
Have a great weekend,
- Mike
PS Monday, October 2 - 1:20 to 2:00 Lamont's Roger Buck on
the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC radio FM 93.9 AM 820
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