date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:08:52 +0100
from: "Mike Hulme" <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: IPCC and UEA
to: "'Tim Osborn'" <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>, "'Phil Jones'" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "'Sarah Raper'" <S.Raper@mmu.ac.uk>

>From my side ...

I was a Key Contributor to Chapter 3 in SAR WGI 1996
And a Review Editor to Chapter 3 in TAR WG2 2001
My UE employment has been from 1988 onwards

If we're try to milk this for glory then go for the IPCC DDC also as Tim
suggests.

Other UEA people missing from AR4 Neil Adger, Andrew Watkinson, Xianfu Lu
and Rachel Warren.


On a more questioning note: what is the IPCC that got the NPP?  Is it the
Bureau who run it, the Chairman who chairs it, the Governments who own it,
or the scientists who contribute?  I've never signed any membership form for
IPCC - nor the 10,000s who have contributed over the years.

The best answer might be the Governments who own it, in which case all the
Governments of the world have won the NPP - brilliant!

Who receives the 1,500,000 Prize?  Not me.

It's surprising there was no discussion about this beforehand.

Mike




-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Osborn [mailto:t.osborn@uea.ac.uk] 
Sent: 16 October 2007 16:32
To: Phil Jones; k.briffa@uea.ac.uk; Sarah Raper; m.hulme@uea.ac.uk
Subject: Re: IPCC and UEA

Hi Phil + others,

I've made a few edits, including a small number of the AR4 WGII parts that I
happen to know about.  But I also thought that the management and hosting of
the IPCC DDC was worth including, so I added some text below the tables.
Perhaps Mike can improve/edit this, if people think it's a contribution of
sufficient stature to include?

Cheers

Tim



At 15:42 16/10/2007, Phil Jones wrote:
>  Dear All,
>       The attachment has some congratulatory text (not sure who from - 
> it's not me)  then Tables of who has been involved from UEA during the 
> 4 IPCC Assessments  for WG1. Someone else is doing WG2 and 3, but do 
> add in any involvement there -  especially for the first 3 
> Assessments.
>      The aim is to collect all the UEA involvement, to justify a claim 
> we might use  in the RAE - that is that UEA has had more involvement 
> than any other academic  institution in the world. I wonder if this 
> can be made even greater - any more than  anywhere else. The likely 
> contenders with us for the latter are the Hadley Centre  and NCAR - 
> unless any of you can think of other 'worthy'
> institutions for the claim.
>     Can you look through what I've put you down for?  I've been 
> through the Assessments  quite quickly, so have likely made some 
> mistakes especially with omitting CA involvement  and also TS and SPM?
>     I don't have an email for Dick Warrick. Can anybody think of 
> others from UEA who  have been involved in any of the reports - whilst 
> at UEA? I know there are others  who were at UEA, but their 
> involvement has been after they left.
>
>  Cheers
>  Phil
>
>
>Prof. Phil Jones
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>School of Environmental Sciences    Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich                          Email    p.jones@uea.ac.uk
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