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Lamont Weekly
Report – January 13, 2006
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
It has been a tough seven days. Bill Haxby's funeral last
Saturday afternoon brought tears to many eyes - it was a fitting
tribute to
Bill and was very well attended. I was very pleased to see
the well-written and prominent obituary in the New York Times.
I am so glad
to see the recognition of Bill's lifetime accomplishments.
So very well deserved.
I spent Monday and Tuesday in Washington at a meeting of the
Ocean Council. Plans to merge the corporations JOI and CORE
are becoming
firm and I believe that, on the ~12 month timescale, we will
see the creation of single powerful entity in DC with membership
from all the
Universities around the nation involved in Ocean Science.
We certainly need a more effective way to fight for our budgets.
While I was in DC I heard that Yochanan Kushnir and been rushed
to hospital for emergency surgery, so that was a big worry
- I spoke by
phone with Yochanan this morning, and he is home and doing
very well, thank goodness.
There are some who would say that the most significant event
of the week was the announcement on Tuesday from Apple of
their new faster-
than-lightening Intel powered MacBook Pros, but I am not quite
sure that I agree with that.
We have a special ExCom next week, dedicated exclusively to
discussions of how to move forward with the University to
build new
and better positions for the Doherty Research Staff. I will
give a preliminary report on where we stand with this in next
week's report.
Thank you to everyone for their understanding and patience
as we strive to cut our energy usage in the face of large
increases in
utility costs. Our efforts are indeed having an impact. Our
last meter readings were on December 28th - about half way
through the
Holiday break. Those show that, by shutting down over the
break, we saved about $15K. We anticipate double that savings
when the readings
over the New Year
are available. Please do not doubt that this is 'real' money
that we are talking about here - these savings can be
used for the many other desperate infrastructure needs we
have around the campus. So we will be continuing to strive
to be frugal in this
department and it is the daily efforts of Dick Greco that
make this feasible. Thanks Dick.
It's going to be cold again this three day MLK Day weekend,
Keep safe,
- Mike
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