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Lamont Weekly Report – December 1, 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" - Plans complete. Awarded contract to Ed Cook Contracting. Waiting for building Permit to proceed.

Rooms 106-109 Seismology - Moved in new air handler and set up condensing unit for HVAC system. Ductwork fabricated and installed connecting the air handler to the new ductwork previously installed. HVAC system scheduled start up and testing Monday, December 4th. Replaced four existing doors where the new and old sections intersect. Installed 3 storefront units. Shades installed in all offices. Installed countertops and molding in Computer Work Room, CMT room, Visitor's area work station and area for printers. All remaining counter-tops have been ordered. Cabinet base units/tops for Computer work room complete. Working on wall units for G. Ekstrom's rear office.

New Parking Lot - River stone border and curbs complete. Light fixtures installed and operating. Landscaping substantially complete. Additional plantings and drainage work will be completed in the spring.

Room 18 Geochemistry - Removed Mass Spectrometer, repaired ceiling and patched floor tile room 18 Geochemistry. Waiting on delivery of new Mass Spectrometer.

Miscellaneous
Cut new trail from South end of Seismology that connects with the existing path at the rear of the construction site.
Carpet Room 4 office Marine Biology.
Open House.
Replace a/c compressor 105 Core Lab.
Replace a/c compressor 104 Oceanography.
Installed new Siemens Building Management Control System in Oceanography.
Replaced Boiler in Geochemistry.
Replaced three generator diesel fuel tanks with double walled tanks.
Installed new a/c computer room and tiled 208 Oceanography computer room.
Installed additional a/c units in Seismology Computer Room to augment the existing unit.

<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR<>

I had what I believe to be an effective meeting with the Women's
Forum on Monday - focused upon an elucidation of our sometimes opaque
policies controlling part-time employment for Officers of Research.
Thanks to Edie Miller's efforts we made some significant progress in
clarifying this and we are preparing a clear and simple 'cheat sheet'
that we will put up on the web site in the next week or so. Working
to improve flexibility (with regards to part-time work) will be one
of our goals - and we will work with CU HR to investigate possible
ways forward.

It was very gratifying over the Thanksgiving holidays to see the
amount of coverage that Maya Tolstoy's (East Pacific rise eruption)
paper in Science Express received with write-ups in the NYT and the
Washington Post among others. Congratulations Maya!

Speaking of the NYT, I was at their magnificent (soon to be vacated)
building on 43rd Street on Thursday evening for a reception
following the Liberty Science Center Board of Trustees meeting. I
was able to thank the NYT Company President and CEO Janet Robinson
for employing Andy Revkin - a continuous source of good communication
between academia and our constituents in the general public.

Arnold Gordon is out in Indonesia right now - got a quick email from
him expressing his excitement over successfully recovering all his
moorings that contain a three year long record of through-flow in the
Makassar Strait between the Indian and Pacific oceans - a very
important data set, and unquestionably a 'first'.

Pat O'Reilly and I spent a large part of this afternoon meeting with
CU's newly appointed (in Robert Kasdin's office) Director of
Environmental Stewardship, Nilda Mesa, talking about ways that we can
make our campus more efficient and environment-friendly - lots of
issues to tackle there.

After a holiday reception here on Sunday afternoon for our neighbors
I go to DC (again) on Monday - NSF in the morning, NIH in the
afternoon. I will be back in the office Tuesday as the slide towards
San Francisco AGU steepens.

Have a great weekend,




- Mike


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