cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk
date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:42:51 +0000
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: This and that
to: ian renfrew <i.renfrew@uea.ac.uk>,"Andrew Watson" <a.watson@uea.ac.uk>

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>  Ian, Andy,
        Keith Briffa and I have just come back from a 2hour meeting 
with Jacquie, Alastair
  and also Mike Hulme.

      As expected given the statement at School Board the week before last,
  we're not going to be able to get a replacement for Nathan Gillet for some
  years. We're also not going to get a replacement for Saffron O'Neill either.

     Issue for WW is that a Nathan replacement was down for the new 
Climate Feedbacks
  course.  We either need to drop this idea, or find someone else.

     You'll have heard from Jacquie that she thinks the WW group is 
too big. She's also
  worried that ENV's Climate Science and Climate Change (the whole 
Climate agenda)
  is not that coherent. We have expertise across all areas of IPCC 
WGs and beyond this
  as well, but we don't co-ordinate ourselves. This is moving target as the
  climate agenda/debate is continually evolving. If any faculty were 
asked, they probably
  would all say they are working on some aspect of climate.

    I don't want to start a debate on how we can improve co-ordination, but the
  issue is going to continually resurface. We're we any better in the 
past? Is our
  size the issue?

  Cheers
  Phil




Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit        Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
School of Environmental Sciences    Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
University of East Anglia
Norwich                          Email    p.jones@uea.ac.uk
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