date: Fri Aug 18 12:51:14 2006
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: request for "continued" collaboration
to: Colin.Prentice@bristol.ac.uk

   18 August 2006

   Colin,

   Despite our best efforts the NERC application we submitted on the Process-Based
   Standardisation fell at the first hurdle. To be frank, I was not at all happy with the
   comments but I know how futile it is to argue. I submitted a similar outline proposal to
   the Leverhulme Trust and this got through the initial screening.

   I am now submitting the full proposal and I am hoping you will agree again to be named as a
   collaborator. Ben Smith has agreed to do likewise. I attach the proposal and summary as
   requested by Leverhulme. The request boils down to one for salary for Tom Melvin plus a
   little travel money to visit yourself and Ben (and one Austrian collaborator).

   I am convinced that this work will be significant for dendroclimatology and very likely be
   of value for tree-growth modelling studies, hence my determination to continue pursuing
   this. I know you are very busy so I hope you will not mind if I take the liberty of
   assuming you are willing to agree to this request, unless I hear from you to the contrary.

   Very best wishes and thanks,


   --
   Professor Keith Briffa,
   Climatic Research Unit
   University of East Anglia
   Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.

   Phone: +44-1603-593909
   Fax: +44-1603-507784
   [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/

