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Lamont Weekly
Report – March 9, 2007
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
As crazy weeks go, this last one was a particular winner.
I got back from Scripps on Monday night, and after one day
in the office went down to DC early Wednesday morning and
spent the day on Capitol Hill attending Ocean events organized
by CORE. The heads of the Ocean Caucus - Congressmen Sam Farr
and Tom Allen - were highly visible as were the recent Chairs
of the two major Commissions on the Oceans - Leon Panetta
and Jim Watkins. I spent Thursday with CU AVP for Government
Affairs Ellen Smith making visits to congressional offices
- some on our own, some with Scripps Director Tony Haymet
and some with a large group of CORE representatives. And then
at the end of the day I experienced what happens when an airline
(US Air) changes its reservation and check-in software without
adequate testing or staff training - Reagan National was a
zoo and it took over two hours to check in for the shuttle…….so
it was late when I got home Thursday night…….and
Friday was a flurry of appointments, ranging from talking
with a new prospective donor, trying to recruit an important
new senior member to our staff, and introducing a superb lecture
in the Science of Diversity series by Arizona University Assistant
Professor Erin Leahey.
Now I should give you a headsup on a couple of things:
Probably the most under appreciated group of employees on
our campus is the administrative staff - as the Federal regulations
under which we operate get more and more restrictive, and
as our budgets get tighter and tighter, we expect more and
more support - and yet little is done to recognize the crucial
and essential role that all our administrators play in enabling
the science and research to go forward. As one small step
towards correcting this we have decided to establish an annual
campus-wide award to recognize outstanding service. Edie Miller
will be distributing the details about eligibility, nomination
procedures etc in the next few days. We hope to present the
first award later this spring.
If you are a Research Officer you should have received a request
from Chris Small to complete a questionnaire about the CU
Housing system - please take a moment to fill it out - it
is important!
And finally the update on exciting recycling competition is
provided below!
Hope you had a great weekend - maybe spring has arrived.
- Mike
Report on the Recyclemania Competition
At the end of Week 5 of the Recyclemania Competition, Lamont
is holding on to its First Place position in the Paper Recycling
race with a substantial lead at 22.3 pounds per person recycled
over 5 weeks reported so far. We have maintained a respectable
13th place in the Grand Champion contest with a 37.6% recycling
rate. As a performance enhancing activity we have scheduled
a "Clean and Go Green" week from March 19th through
the 23rd. I hope that all of us can schedule a few hours in
that week to get some old & no longer so important papers
and periodicals off the desk and bookshelves, and out of the
file cabinets and into the recycling carts that will be everywhere.
Tom Eberhard and his staff from the Traffic Department will
happily provide the carts and the manpower to move the mountains
of paper I expect we can contribute to this worthwhile cause.
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