Lamont Weekly Report – May 4, 2007

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"

Installation of light fixtures complete.
Traffic Department has moved file cabinets onto specially designed built in platforms.
Restore lawn at the rear of house 7 and courtyard side of house 8.

BOREHOLE PROJECT PHASE THREE: THE MAIN BUILDING

Room 101- Removed suspended ceiling, wall panels, carpet and took down a section of the hall wall and two closets for new computer room in room 101.
Framing, sheetrock and spackling for new Computer server room and Ted Baker's office complete. Also relocated and upsized electric panel. Roughed in electric, computer and phone lines. Capped unused water lines. Waiting for Orange and Rockland Utilities to remove an old, abandoned and forgotten transformer recently discovered in a subterranean concrete vault.

ROOMS 106-109 SEISMOLOGY

Cabinets and top for plotter area complete.
This completes Phase 2. Phase 3 (hallway, additional office renovation) remains.

CEISIN ROOMS GEOSCIENCE

Moved furniture around between 201, 202 and 203 Geoscience and relocated computer wiring to new office layout.
Installed glass door in new conference room 201 Geoscience.

MISCELLANEOUS

Instrument Lab - Painted office, replaced a/c unit for new Instrument Lab Supervisor.
Core Lab - Replaced two roof exhaust fan motors
Administration - Painted south stairs
Spring restoration of grounds underway


<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

I am extremely disappointed that I will miss the Lamont Ball this weekend - the person to blame is my brother, for allowing his daughter to schedule her wedding at such an inconvenient time. The only upside is that my superior choreographic skills will remain hidden for yet another year……..

A couple of important announcements: this years Jardetzky lecturer is Inez Fung from UC Berkeley - 3:30 pm Monell Auditorium May 11th - her talk will be entitled "Changing carbon cycle and accelerating climate change."

Thank you to everyone who helped organize the Comer Memorial Symposium this past Wednesday - it was good - I think we achieved the objective of honoring a great man.

Speaking of great men…….if you want to see a picture of Wally with Queen Silvia of Sweden check out -

http://www.crafoordprize.se/press/pressphotos.4.2f692b3510dbfce33968000131.html

Lastly - 2:00 pm Thursday next week May 10th - Jeff Sachs will host a Town Hall Meeting in the Monell Auditorium- as always, all are invited.

I will be in the UK over the weekend - back in the office Tuesday - have a good one,


- Mike



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