Lamont Weekly Report – January 9, 2004

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

<> REPORT SUMMARY <>

– Recent Grant Awards –
– Recent Publications –
– New Hires –
– Current B & G Projects –
– Letter from the Director –
____________________________________

<> RECENT GRANT AWARDS
For the period 11/1/2003-11/30/2003

Zubair, L.A joint proposal:Analysis of impacts of climate variability on malaria transmission in Sri Landa and the development of an early warning system, NOAA.

Chen, D., Cane, M.,Enso prediction in the western tropical pacific: the roles ofsurface heat and freshwater fluxes.NOAA.

Kushnir, Y., NOAA cooperative institute for climate applications and research (CICAR)cooperative agreement proposal.NOAA.

Cane, M., Chen, D., Kaplan, A., CICAR:Dynamical forecasting of ENSO; A contribution to the IRI network.NOAA.

Ryan, W.B.F., Carbotte, S.Collaboative Research:Margins focus site data management, NSF.

Chayes, D.,Technical support for multibeam operations on the USCG Healy. Univ. New Hamp.

Stoll, R., Construction of 4 recoverable XBP92s. *NAVO.

Ho. D., Schlosser, P.Measurements of air-sea gas transfer and bubble dynamics in the southern ocean during a solas dual tracer experiment, NSF.

Xie, J., A comprehensive study of regional waves from clustered underground nuclear explosions with the goals of sourcemodel appraisal and improved event identification.DOE.

Ljunggren, P., Purdy, G.M., Walsh, A.Shipboard scientific equipment 962003.NSF.

Chen, R. Lenhardt. C., Continued operation of the earth observing system data and information system (EOSDIS) socioeconomic data and applications center (SEDAC) NASA.

<> RECENT PUBLICATIONS
(The following list is derived from the Lamont Publications Database which identifies all publications that hold a Lamont contribution number, thereby qualifying the publications as a Lamont paper).

Caplow, T., P. Schlosser, D.T. Ho, and N. Santella. Transport dynamics in a sheltered estuary and connecting tidal straits: SF6 tracer study in New York Harbor; Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 37, no. 22, pp. 5116-5126, November 15, 2003.

Davi, N.K, G.C. Jacoby, and G.C. Wiles. Boreal temperature variability inferred from maximum latewood density and tree-ring width data, Wrangell Mountain region, Alaska; Quaternary Research, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 252-262, November2003.

Jiang, G.Q., M.J. Kennedy, and N. Christie-Blick Stable isotopic evidence for methane seeps in Neoproterozoic postglacial cap carbonates; Nature,vol. 426, no. 6968, pp.822-826, December 18, 2003.

Otto, G.P., M.Y. Wu, M. Clarke, H. Lu, O.R. Anderson, H. Hilbi, H.A. Shuman, and R.H. Kessin. Macroautophagy is dispensable for intracellular replication of Legionella pneumophila in Dictyostelium discoideum; Molecular Microbiology, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 63-72, January,2004.

Small, C. High spatial resolution spectral mixture analysis of urban reflectance; Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 88, no. 1-2, pp. 170-186, November 30, 2003.

<> RECENT NEW HIRES
For the period 12/1/03 96 12/31/03

Bertinato, Christopher
12/22/03
Casual
MG&G

Dai, Yongjiu
12/01/03
Visiting Associate Research Scientist
IRI

Rautian, Tatyana G.
12/04/03
Casual
Seismology

<> CURRENT B&G PROJECTS

• Roofing Projects
  Project complete.

• Oceanography Emergency Generator:
  Four contractors have been selected and will provide bids by Friday January 23, 2004.

• Greenhouse Project:
  Environmental operating controls and systems installation underway.

• Marine Biology, Room 7:
  Rear lab ceiling, painting and flooring complete. Front lab floor tile installed. Fume hoods and casework on order.

• Marine Biology, Room 13:
  Changed configuration of lab by removing one partition and adding a short extension to a different partition. Installed new ceiling and lighting. New fume hood on order. A/C system upgrade pending.

• Miscellaneous:
  – Painted room 206C Oceanography.
  – Painted and carpeted rooms 102a, 102b, 103 and 104 Core Lab.
  – Cut up and removed numerous trees downed by heavy wind conditions.
  – Cleaned up after two weekend snowstorms.

<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

I strongly suggest to everyone that they spend some time in San Juan airport in Puerto Rico. It will change your perspective on your future travels. It will give your morale a tremendous boost. It will make you believe that JFK, La Guardia and Newark are smooth running models of elegant efficiency. Needless to say I spent a few hours there this past week, traveling to and from an excellent NSF workshop discussing the design of a major new national research program built around sustained ocean observations. San Juan's logistical dysfunctionality contrasted sharply with the extremely positive and effective workshop attended by more than 300 hundred extremely diverse oceanographers, including more than forty full time education professionals.

The first week of the New Year - always an exciting time of renewal and anticipation. I hope everyone's Holidays were great and that all your Holiday travel was safe and trouble free. It has been a short week for me - I returned home from the sunny Caribbean last night suffering a 60-degree temperature differential between airplane entry and exit ...so I have little news to report. Again I wish everyone well for the New Year.

One small piece of business follows:

If any one is planning to submit a proposal to the NSF program "Information Technology Research for National Priorities (ITR)"(http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/itr/) (the deadline for letters of intent is next Wednesday) please attend a short meeting in the Director's conference Room at 11:00 am on Monday January 12th so we can be sure to coordinate our submissions.

Have a great weekend,

– Mike
____________________________________

You can subscribe / unsubscribe to the Lamont Weekly Report mailing list.

– To subscribe - send your request to:
majordomo@ldeo.columbia.edu
Subject: Request
The following command must be in the BODY of the message not in the subject:

subscribe lamont-l <email address>

– To unsubscribe - send your request to:
majordomo@ldeo.columbia.edu
Subject: Request
The following command must be in the BODY of the message not in the subject:

unsubscribe lamont-l <email address>

If you have questions or problems send e-mail to the list owner:
owner-lamont-l@ldeo.columbia.edu