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Lamont Weekly Report – December 19, 2003

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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This will be a report of mixed emotions of joy and sadness.

Our Holiday party last night was certainly an extended moment of joy and happiness. I certainly had a wonderful time and hope all that attended did so too. Events like that do not just happen of course a lot of work went into it. Please thank the committee members Felicia Taylor, Emily Chapp, Gilles Guerin, Alison Keimowitz, Erin Stone, Patti Ruane, Bruno Tremblay and Laura Lichtblau if you have the chance, and especially thank Emily for the great slide show.

George Kukla did not like me embarrassing him last night with well-deserved praise for being awarded the Milankovitch medal by the European Geophysical Union. So, naturally, I will embarrass him more by publicly congratulating him here for receiving this great and appropriate honor. Congratulations George! It was awarded to recognize his pioneering studies of terrestrial records and for linking past climate changes with Milankovich's astronomical theory of climate.

At AGU a couple of weeks ago Lamont investigators contributed a number of posters that tackled the issue of women in science how to increase their numbers, and how to insure their timely advancement and promotion. As I was looking over these posters, I remembered my early interactions more than thirty years ago in Woods Hole with one of the great women pioneers of Marine Geophysics Betty Bunce. Betty was sailing as Chief Scientist on Woods Hole ships shooting explosive seismic refraction experiments in the western Atlantic in the sixties. Sadly I learned earlier this week that at the age of 88 she died. She was a great lady and was one of the legendary characters of our profession and was a true pioneer.

We lost another legend this week. Captain Alan Jorgensen who was Captain of the CONRAD for many years died. He first sailed as Captain in 1968, and came out of retirement in 1989 to sail as an Able Seaman on Conrad's final cruise. Ginny Beck in the Marine Office has details if anyone would like to contact the Jorgenson family. Sadly I never met him whenever I sailed on the CONRAD Peter Oleander was Captain something of a different character.

All best wishes for the Holiday season please do not forget the Children's Holiday party on Sunday, December 21, 2003 at 3-5 pm in Lamont Hall.

Have a great weekend,

– Mike
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