date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:01:19 -0700
from: "Malcolm Hughes" <mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu>
subject: state of the art
to: paolo.cherubini@wsl.ch, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, Martin.Beniston@unifr.ch

Gentlemen,
Please find attached the very latest, extremely rough, and 
unreferenced version of the printed version of this talk. Keith: I hope 
this is of some help. Clearly, I will not be able to cover so much 
ground in the spoken presentation - I will certainly not just read this - 
I wouldn't be able to stay awake myself. In order to try to keep the 
audience, and myself, awake, I will emphasize the angle of  " where 
do we stand now that someone else gives a damn?" My hope is that 
this will not provide an opportunity for self-flagellation, but rather will 
set the scene for discussion of how we can do even better in creative 
and convincing ways. I also intend to use examples and graphics in the 
talk. 
I do intend, after extensive discussions with Steve Leavitt and his 
group, to extend the coverage of isotopes, not so much in the context 
of their obvious lack of significant contribution so far, at least in the 
context I set here, but in terms of exciting new possibilities arising 
from recent work.
If you can discern, even in the 16 pages of disjunct rambling attached, 
something wildly factually incorrect, or something vital missing, please 
let me know quickly (what nerve that Hughes has!).
Cheers, Malcolm
Malcolm Hughes
Professor of Dendrochronology
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
520-621-6470
fax 520-621-8229
