cc: sari.kovats@lshtm.ac.uk, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk
date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:27:35 GMT
from: Graham Bentham <C.Bentham@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Jan 15 mtg: summary proposal in advance?
to: "t.mcmichael" <t.mcmichael@lshtm.ac.uk>

Tony,
Yes I am happy to take the lead on 1 and 6.  I'll be in touch with Sari about 1 early in the 
New Year.  I am due to see Brian Diffey at a DETR meeting in January so I will ask him 
about whether he wants to be involved then: in the meantime I will sort out my own 
thoughts on the study design.

The "new thoughts" that Mike Hulme and I have come up with are really mostly tactical to 
try to try to shape at least a couple of proposals so that they could be seen to be NERC-led 
and therefore hopefully attractive enough  for them to put up some money.  The suggestion 
is to have one on climate change and air pollution (I will liaise with Peter Brimblecombe 
and Steve Dorling at UEA on this).  The other would be something that Mike and CRU 
could take a lead on and this would focus on extreme events (I guess this would include bits 
of number 3 and 4, so we will have to sort out the question of overlap at the meeting).
Have a nice Christmas,
Graham

Professor Graham Bentham
Director, Centre for Environmental Risk
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England
Telephone 01603 592561 Fax: 01603 507719 e-mail: g.bentham@uea.ac.uk



