date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:23:13 +0100
from: Rob Allan <rob.allan@metoffice.gov.uk>
subject: Reference for Gail if needed
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

Phil,
     Not sure if you were aware that with Dennis Wheeler and Martin
Juckes from BADC, we've managed to get a Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC) Digitisation Programme: Enriching Digital Resources
grant for a project entitled ‘UK Colonial registers and Royal Naval
Logbooks: Making the past available for the future.’?

     Anyway, its worth about £183K over two financial years and starts
in October.  It will employ two people, Catharine Ward (Post Doctoral
Research Assistant) and Gail (Research Assistant) through Sunderland
Uni, but we'll still have to go through the usual loops in appointing
them.

     Would you be happy to give Gail a reference if it is asked for?
Her role will be very much as she's done for EMULATE and ACRE now anyway
- in this case digitising (also imaging), checking and archiving weather
observations from UK island colonial stations - the 4/6 lighthouses in
the Carribean bound in the ship logbooks, St Helena and Maldern and any
other Pacific islands we can fit in from the MO Archives back to the
1850s/60s or so.

     Thanks in advance.  Hoping all goes well.   Cheers,  Rob.

PS: Philip and I are working on the new ACRE WWW site under Google - one
can get at it via the redirection from the old site.
 
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