date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:07:09 +0100
from: "Alastair Grant" <A.Grant@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: UNcertainty
to: "'Tim Jickells'" <t.jickells@uea.ac.uk>, <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "'J Andrews'" <J.Andrews@uea.ac.uk>, "'Burgess Jacquelin Prof \(ENV\)'" <Jacquie.Burgess@uea.ac.uk>, "'Andrew Watkinson'" <a.watkinson@uea.ac.uk>, "'Turner Kerry Prof \(ENV\)'" <R.K.Turner@uea.ac.uk>

   This is a great vision.  Would it be helpful to supplement it with some concrete examples
   to show that we can root this down in reality?


   For example, it would be straightforward to write a few sentences linking together the
   brief for biodiversity and agricultural transitions pillars of ELSA with Carlos' forests
   and stronger links to ENV's climate science.  The outline bid to Leverhulme on Earth System
   Science could provide another example.  I'm sure that others could propose examples in
   their areas.


   Yours,

   Alastair
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   Alastair Grant

   Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (CEEC)

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   -----Original Message-----
   From: Tim Jickells [mailto:t.jickells@uea.ac.uk]
   Sent: 26 September 2008 12:34
   To: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk; 'J Andrews'; 'Alastair Grant'; 'Burgess Jacquelin Prof (ENV)';
   'Andrew Watkinson'; 'Turner Kerry Prof (ENV)'
   Subject: UNcertainty


   I attach an attempt at trying to write up the discussion we had on Wednesday about a big
   idea for the VC for ENV. I have called it Uncertainty but given the possible resultant
   strap line of "we don't know what we're doing" I think we need a better title!. I have
   tried to imagine something that could stretch across much of ENV and in the process I have
   strayed into areas so far beyond my knowledge that there are heresies in here of
   considerable scale I suspect. I beg your indulgence and invite you to correct these and
   also consider if you still think this idea has merit in the cold light of day. I have aimed
   to keep this short and of course the devil is in the detail, but any pitch for the funding
   will initially deal with the idea not the detail. If there is a consensus to move this
   forward then we'll need to think how to do that.

   Tim


   Professor Tim Jickells

   School of Environmental Sciences

   University of East Anglia

   Norwich NR4 7TJ UK

   tel 01603593117, fax 01603 591327

