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Lamont Weekly Report – October 8, 2004

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– Letter from the Director –
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<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Two days spent in DC at meetings of the JOI Board of Governors made this a short week (again). (And is the reason why I missed Robin Bell's great talk on Monday evening at the Explorer's Club downtown.)

Jim Yoder is no longer leading the Ocean Sciences Division at NSF - he has returned to his permanent position at Rhode Island - Larry Clark is acting Division Director. The search for the permanent replacement is underway - interviews will not be completed until the end of the month so I doubt a decision will be made before the end of the calendar year.

Next week involves more time in DC, the high point being the LDEO event at the NAS scheduled for Wednesday evening. But before all this excitement comes Open House, and with the promise of temperatures in the 70's and only modest probabilities of precipitation I look forward to another grand and very well attended event. As always thanks are due to all who have worked so hard on setting this up.

Tonight we have the inaugural dinner at which two new entities will be established that will, I am sure, prove to be of great importance to the development of the Observatory. Thanks to the hard work of Development Director Tim Harwood we have a growing number of substantial donors to our unrestricted funds and we will be recognizing a small group of these folks this evening by welcoming them as founding members of FOLD (Friends of Lamont Doherty). Secondly we have established the Torrey Cliff Society, members of which are those who have made a provision for Lamont-Doherty in their wills. The centerpiece of this evening’s celebratory dinner will be a presentation by Doherty Research Scientist Maya Tolstoy.

And by the way - if you feel you do not see me wandering the paths of the Campus at Open House tomorrow, it is not that I am not here - but most of the afternoon is consumed by meetings with the Alumni Association and their Board - I will certainly see everyone at the celebratory reception at 430pm in the Monell Lobby.

I am pleased to report (formally at last) that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Earth Institute at Columbia University a five-year $4.2 million ADVANCE Program grant to test methods to help women overcome barriers to advancing their careers in earth sciences and engineering and making it into the ranks of tenured professors and senior research scientists. The program will be led by Robin Bell working closely with the co-PI's Roberta Miller, Mark Cane, Stephanie Pfirman and John Mutter. The Earth Institute ADVANCE Program's approach is five-fold: to change hiring practices, to provide support to women scientists during difficult life transitions such as elder care and birth or adoption of a child, to enhance mentoring and networking opportunities, to implement transparent promotion procedures and policies and to conduct a self-study. Jenn Laird will be the program coordinator with offices both at Lamont and on the Morningside Campus. Announcement of ADVANCE programs and internal funding opportunities will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.

Have a great weekend,

– Mike
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