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Lamont Weekly
Report – March 30, 2007
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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
Last Saturday several of us were downtown on Pier 94 participating
in a Channel 13 event attended by thousands of grade school
teachers. Robin Bell and Maya Tolstoy gave interesting talks
and I gave a talk too. And there was this other guy on the
agenda as well - Al Gore I think his name was - he got a bigger
audience than Robin or Maya or me……
And last Sunday was another very successful Public Lecture
at Lamont - Dallas Abbott catching everyone's imagination
with her meticulous analyses of evidence for megatsunamis
created by impacts that occurred in recent history - interesting
(and terrifying) stuff. Yet again we had a packed auditorium
with overflow watching on the TV outside.
For the past two weeks or so, folks visiting my conference
room in Monell have had the pleasure of seeing the beautifully-restored
ship's bell from Lamont's first research vessel, R/V Vema.
Thank you to those staff, alumni and donors who made this
happen, especially our own Richard Perry who did the beautiful
restoration work. Eventually we will have the bell on display
in a more accessible area, but for a short while I am keeping
it for myself! Thank you, Richard, for all your work on this.
The week ended with a joyful three hour ExCom - the previous
four days were consumed by 24 separate appointments, which
kept me from having time to think - sometimes a good thing.
Have a great weekend - pretty soon it is going to be time
to go sailing……..
Mike
PS - I am sure many of you saw the article in the Columbia
Record about Lamont's prowess in recycling - (so the only
way we get visibility downtown is because of our trash?) -
but anyway - thanks to Mary Reagan here is the latest update
on our standings:
We have continued to maintain our substantial lead in the
paper recycling contest. But we are also doing well in other
areas. We're number 7 in the Grand Champion standings with
a cumulative recycling rate of 43.47%. And, we're number 8
in the Per Capital Classic with 51.02 lbs recycled per person.
RecycleMania is entering it's final week, with the contest
ending on April 7th. So you've got one last chance to clean
out those offices and really push us over the top. Just a
reminder, we only send in the glass and bottle recycling every
six weeks or so. We will be doing another run on the last
day of the competition and the results will be prorated over
the weeks since our last run.
See all the results at http://www.recyclemaniacs.org/results.asp
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