Lamont Weekly Report – November 19, 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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After a day in DC on Monday - grappling with Marine Mammal protection issues on behalf of the marine geophysics community (as well as the obligatory courtesy call to our good sponsors at NSF) - the week has disappeared all too quickly. It was Panel week at OCE so the folks on the 7th floor at NSF were somewhat distracted. They still have no budget for this fiscal year, however, so do not expect the Program Managers to be quick with their decisions.

Tuesday night was a wonderful event at the NY Academy of Sciences, where the magazine Scientific American gave out 30 awards (with 30 presentation speeches and 30 acceptance speeches all within 2 hours - it made our own Vetlesen event the previous week seem quite pedantic!) and the Ford Motor Company gave their award to Taro Takahashi for his contributions to our understanding of the carbon cycle. Again, congratulations to Taro!

The week ended with another marathon 3 hour long ExCom where matters both great and small were debated, mostly resolved, and issues new and old (and sometimes even tawdry) were exposed to the searing intellect of the Observatory's leadership.

Anyway, if you are traveling for Thanksgiving next week, please be very safe,

Have a great weekend,

– Mike

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