Lamont Weekly Report – October 6, 2006

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964

<> REPORT SUMMARY <>

- Recent B&G Projects

- Letter from the Director

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<> RECENT B&G PROJECTS

Borehole Project: The "Links": reviewing and modifying plans. When
complete a Building Department permit will be issued to construct the
"links" which will connect the Borehole building with the two
renovated houses on either side.

Rooms 106-109 Seismology: Taping/spackling complete. All walls primed
and two finish coats applied. Doors installed, trimmed and
polyurethaned. Locks installed. Ran new plumbing for air handler hot
water coil, reheat coil and vav boxes. Rough plumbing complete for
new pantry sink. Installation of suspended ceilings complete.
Outlets, switches and wiremold complete. Data/phone wiring complete.

Installation of baseboard radiation complete. Fire alarm system
complete. Light fixtures and carpet complete.

Parking lot excavated - Rerouted gas line around limits of the new
lot. Rerouted overhead phone lines to underground conduit so old
service could be removed. Rock outcroppings removed. Excavating,
grading and trucking rock off site. Gravel trucked in to build up
lots for drainage. Installation of electrical conduit and concrete
bases for parking lot lights complete. Porous blacktop applied and
lot striped. Riverstone border started. Curbs will be installed and
light fixtures will be shipped week of 10/9.

Miscellaneous:
Replaced condensing unit 201 Seismology
Replaced gas line to Cafeteria.
Replaced 25 ton compressor at Oceanography Building.
Replaced a/c units 104B, 104C, 202D, 204E and 207B Oceanography
Cleaned up campus grounds and removed downed trees after weekend
wind storm
Refueled all generator diesel tanks from a 6 hour outage
Removed fallen trees from all trails in nature sanctuary
Replaced carpeting in Human Resources offices, 209 Admin., Rm. 6
Marine Biology.
Prep work for Open House.
Replaced Boiler Geochemistry.


<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

I tried to get to Roger Buck's talk at the Explorer's Club on Monday
night, but did not make it and had to be satisfied with listening to
his interview on the Leonard Lopate show on NPR, talking about his
exciting Ethiopian adventures. Tuesday brought another session of
contract negotiations up in Boston with the shipyard - we will be
sharing the results of that with NSF in Washington this coming
Tuesday. I am REALLY looking forward to that...

The external review of our NOAA cooperative institute CICAR on
Wednesday and Thursday went very well thanks to Yochanan Kushnir's
careful preparation and the excellent presentations by our climate
researchers. I think Karl Turekian and his review committee will
produce a highly complementary report.

Friday was so full of activity I did not even have time to complete
the weekly report. ExCom took up most of the morning. Earth
institute Executive Director Steve Cohen was our guest at this
meeting. But the most important action was the approval by ExCom of
the selection of Suzanne Carbotte as our first Bruce C. Heezen Senior
Research Scientist. Congratulations Suzanne!! We will be placing a
more substantial announcement of this important appointment on our
web page in the coming days.

Our Advisory Board met on Friday afternoon, and in the evening we had
our annual dinner for members of FOLD (Friends of Lamont Doherty) and
the Torrey Cliff Society. Bill Ryan was our dinner speaker and as
always he left the audience aghast at the spectacular presentations
and animations of seafloor topography and other geophysical data sets
- thank you again Bill for a very impressive show. GeoMapApp won a
whole new following!

And of course today, Saturday, was a spectacular Open House. Thank
you to everyone for the fabulous effort - every year it gets better -
and we had an excellent crowd on a beautiful sunny afternoon. The
official head count was 3953.

Have a great week,


- Mike

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