date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:20:02 +0100
from: "Burgess Jacquelin Prof \(ENV\)" <Jacquie.Burgess@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: UNcertainty
to: "Jickells Tim Prof \(ENV\)" <T.Jickells@uea.ac.uk>, "Briffa Keith Prof \(ENV\)" <K.Briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "Andrews Julian Prof \(ENV\)" <J.Andrews@uea.ac.uk>, "Grant Alastair Prof \(ENV\)" <A.Grant@uea.ac.uk>, "Watkinson Andrew Prof \(ENV\)" <A.Watkinson@uea.ac.uk>, "Turner Kerry Prof \(ENV\)" <R.K.Turner@uea.ac.uk>

   Tim,

   Thank you very much for putting some initial thoughts together ....    I really like the
   ideas in here and think we could take them on at the right scale and intensity of activity
   if we had the funds.    We need a really dramatic title to catch the scale and importance
   of what we are doing.    I'm hopeless at this sort of stuff but something like `Global
   Earth Systems Laboratory?'  ....er.....

   I will copy the original to Bill - as he's got his gala dinner tonight, this might give him
   something to work on.

   Jacquie

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   From: Tim Jickells [mailto:t.jickells@uea.ac.uk]
   Sent: 26 September 2008 12:34
   To: Briffa Keith Prof (ENV); Andrews Julian Prof (ENV); Grant Alastair Prof (ENV); Burgess
   Jacquelin Prof (ENV); Watkinson Andrew Prof (ENV); Turner Kerry Prof (ENV)
   Subject: UNcertainty


   I attach an attempt at trying to write up the discussion we had on Wednesday about a big
   idea for the VC for ENV. I have called it Uncertainty but given the possible resultant
   strap line of "we don't know what we're doing" I think we need a better title!. I have
   tried to imagine something that could stretch across much of ENV and in the process I have
   strayed into areas so far beyond my knowledge that there are heresies in here of
   considerable scale I suspect. I beg your indulgence and invite you to correct these and
   also consider if you still think this idea has merit in the cold light of day. I have aimed
   to keep this short and of course the devil is in the detail, but any pitch for the funding
   will initially deal with the idea not the detail. If there is a consensus to move this
   forward then we'll need to think how to do that.

   Tim


   Professor Tim Jickells

   School of Environmental Sciences

   University of East Anglia

   Norwich NR4 7TJ UK

   tel 01603593117, fax 01603 591327
