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Lamont Weekly
Report – May 18, 2007
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
On Monday evening Maya Tolstoy led off this season's set of
Cafe
Science talks organized by CU down at the Picnic Cafe on Broadway,
and educated a diverse audience about the intriguing links
between
earthquakes and life on (and within) the deep ocean floor.
Maya had
to work without visual aids or amplification, but nevertheless
-
other than being rudely interrupted by a NYC Health Inspector
who
summarily closed the Cafe - it went extremely well.
I was on Morningside Monday and Tuesday and suffered the mayhem
that
comes with the School's commencement exercises, but successfully
avoided the gridlock of the primary ceremony on Wednesday.
Another very successful Lamont Advisory Board Meeting was
held on
Tuesday. In addition to hearing a stellar talk by Rich Seager,
the
Board decided upon the Production company that will make our
long-
awaited short movie about Lamont to be used in the forthcoming
fundraising campaign for the endowment (to support research
staff
salaries). And most significantly we received a $100,000 gift
from
Board member Frank Gumper and his wife Joann, as an important
step
towards matching the existing $750,000 endowment gift from
the
Doherty Foundation to support our education program.
Most of two days this week was consumed with the important
process of
reviewing all the merit raises for the Observatory's research
staff -
a challenging exercise, most of the hard work being on the
shoulders
of the Associate Directors.
And so the week ends, and suddenly summer feels far away,
Have a great weekend,
- Mike
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