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Lamont Weekly
Report – May 26, 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
Having spent six of the past seven and a half hours in either
the
Lamont ExCom or the DEES faculty meeting, my brain is in no
fit state
to compose insightful and witty accounts of the weeks happenings.
So
I shall be brief.
Especially so since it is a long weekend and I am trying to
escape
for a couple of days in a vain attempt to rescue some molecules
of
sanity from the turmoil of the past week (etc etc).
Several of us greatly enjoyed entertaining a French Senator
on
Monday, who was both interested and well informed on Antarctican
research activities - and was most appreciative of my quip
re wishing
our New York (text deleted by White House censors on the grounds
of
national security). Anyway, thanks to Robin Bell for leading
this
effort - once again we all learned about the importance of
LUNCH.
Tuesday and Wednesday were consumed by marathon salary review
meetings with the Associate Directors - we reviewed all the
research
staff - a very important process, but very tough - especially
in
this constrained world when we have a pool of only 3% from
which to
extract merit raises. I doubt that it will be any solace to
anyone,
given the small size of the raises that we can give this year,
but
they were debated and argued with great thoroughness and vigor!
Have a great Memorial Day weekend,
- Mike
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