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Lamont Weekly Report – June 18,
2004
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
We are almost overwhelmed with good news this week!
We have received an NSF award that totals in excess of $20M
to support the purchase and outfitting of a powerfully capable
research vessel that will replace Maurice Ewing. This was
made possible by the hard work of all the staff in the Marine
Department as well as many members of the engineering and
research staff of the Observatory who helped with proposal
preparation and advisory committee activities. This is not
the largest award that we have received from NSF, but I think
it is the largest award that we have received in support of
a facility. Congratulations to everyone involved!
We expect the new vessel will start operating late in 2005.
We are in the process of placing new information on the Marine
Department web page that will provide all the basic specifications
and capabilities – suffice it to say that it will revolutionize
academic marine geophysics!
Now we must decide how to name her! Should we retain the
same name? With this announcement, I solicit nominations from
everyone – please send your ideas to Jackie Graney in
the Marine Office (jackie@ldeo.columbia.edu).
In a few weeks we will review and report on the ideas that
we have received.
A second piece of great news is that fact that Kevin Griffin
has been awarded tenure within DEES – congratulations
Kevin!
And thirdly, Maya Tolstoy has been promoted to Doherty Research
Scientist and so joins the Senior Staff of the Observatory.
Congratulations Maya!
Under the auspices of the IUGG Committee on Mathematical
Geophysics, the redoubtable Marc Spiegelman organized a clearly
successful three-day-long meeting on Frontiers in Theoretical
Earth Sciences down on the Morningside Campus this past week.
The poster session, which I attended and enjoyed, was advertised
not just as a ‘Poster Session’ but as ‘Gala
Poster Session’ – the distinction remains a little
vague in my mind, but maybe it was related to the fact that
Marc gave a speech!
We entertained key members of the Board of the Doherty Foundation
today (Friday) – I hope many of you had the opportunity
to meet with them at the reception this afternoon.
Have a great weekend,
– Mike
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