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Lamont Weekly Report – September 30, 2005

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


This has been a tremendous week of activity, practically all of which has been very positive and successful. The Observatory's Advisory Board met on Wednesday afternoon, and were hosted for a reception by Jeff Sachs at his home in mid town. This was very well attended and clearly established the success of our efforts to build a cadre of good friends and supporters from both the local area and from among our alumni. Talk of our new Geochemistry building and the need for raising new endowment funds for salary support, not surprisingly, were major topics of conversation.

On Thursday I chaired the inaugural meeting of the Executive Board of CICAR (the NOAA cooperative institute led by Yochanan Kushnir) - and thanks to Yochanan's good preparations this was successful and productive, as was the daylong CICAR symposium on the climate of the last millennium (held on Wednesday in Monell). And on Friday, following an abbreviated ExCom, we held a good discussion with representatives of Geochem to decide upon the overall configuration (relative arrangement of offices and labs) for the new building so the architect can be guided appropriately. I am very pleased that a good consensus was reached and clear direction can now be given to the design team.

And tonight we are hosting a dinner for members of FOLD (Friends of Lamont Doherty) - our lead donor group - again to talk about strategies for developing new resources for the Observatory in the long and short terms. Tomorrow, of course, is Open House - and the weather promises to be very kind. It will be another great day - we have a substantial number of distinguished visitors and we are hosting a lunch for the Board of our Alumni Association. I hope to find the time to visit some of the exhibits myself!

Have a wonderful weekend - unfortunately for me Monday morning will bring another 50 minutes spent in Seat 9C on the US Air shuttle to DC.

- Mike


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