date: Fri Mar 11 08:41:18 2005
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: FW: Application for Fellowship ref 00022570
to: "Althea Howard" <Althea.Howard@rmets.org>

    Althea,
       Back in Norwich now. I don't recall meeting this person in Birmingham in 1999. Likely
    my fault as I meet a lot of people. I only recall 2-3 emails many years ago. I suspect
    Brian will not recall him either.
      Looking at his 'application'  form, he doesn't have that many real references. He looks
    to be retired. Being an editor on Climate Research is something I wouldn't put on my CV.
    It is a discredited journal in the field.  Most of the people he puts in the email
    (the 4 in the US and the other 5 are mainly greenhouse skeptics - although Changnon,
    Landsea and Pielke are mainstream climatologists). So, I'd be wary of accepting him
    as a fellow.
       Mike Hulme isn't at the Hadley Centre, but here at UEA (m.hulme@uea.ac.uk).
        My only other link with him occurred in late 2003. Usborne books (a British publishing
    house had a good book for kids (12-14 yr olds)) yet a group of Canadians (including
   Khandekar)
    complained to the publishers about the content of one of their series on Global Warming.
    Usborne got me to read through the book and assess their critical comments, which
    were groundless. I did think at the time that this was being very petty.
       Hope this helps in any decision.
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 08:32 09/03/2005, you wrote:

     Here it is Phil....many thanks.

     Althea Howard (Ms)
     Membership, Subscriptions and Accounts
     Royal Meteorological Society
     104 Oxford Road
     Reading
     RG1 7LL
     Tel 0118 9568500, Fax 0118 9568571
     membership@rmets.org
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     From: Madhav Khandekar [[1]mailto:mkhandekar@rogers.com]
     Sent: 05 March 2005 00:50
     To: Althea Howard
     Subject: RE: Application for Fellowship ref 00022570
     Dear Ms Howard

     During my attendance to IUGG Conference in Birmingham, UK(1999),  I met following UK
     scientists ( only briefly) who would be aware of my research.

     1: Dr. Phil Jones, University of east Anglia, UK ( Phil and I have communicated with
     each other extensively thru e-mails).
     2: Prof. Brian Hoskins, University of Reading, UK ( I met and discussed only briefly
     with Prof. Hoskins during IUGG).

     During my wave modeling work at Environment Canada, I attended several annual meetings
     in Europe ( from 1988 thru 1993) and have met a few UK wave modelers. Notable among them
     are:
     1: Ms Rachael Stratton ( she used to work in wave modeling group at UK Met office some
     15 years ago. I understand she works at present with climate molders like Dr. Gareth
     Jones and others at UK Climate Modeling Group).
     2: Dr. Peter A.E.M. Janssen, originally from Netherlands, now working on global ocean
     wave models at ECMWF in Reading, UK.

     More recently at the Climate Change Conference in Moscow ( July 2004), I met Dr. Mike
     Hulme, a climate scientist with UK climate modeling Group at Exeter, UK.

     In my editorial work, I often communicate with several US scientists, notable among them
     are:
     1: Prof. Roger Pielke, Sr, Dept of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort
     Collins, CO, USA
     2: Prof. Robert Balling Jr, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
     3: Dr. Stanley Changnon, Climatologist ( Emeritus) at Illinois State Water Survey, USA
     4. Dr. Christopher Landsea, Hurricane specialist, NOAA Laboratory, Miami, USA


     Some of the scientists living elsewhere with whom I often communicate are:
    1. Dr. Chris de Freitas, University of Auckland, New Zealand
    2. Dr. Vincent Gray, retd. Scientist and IPCC external reviewer, Wellington, New Zealand
    3. Prof. Kevin Walsh, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    4. Prof. Nils-Axel Morner, Head, Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, University of Stockholm,
       Sweden.
    5. Dr. Paul Reiter, Scientist & Head of Insect & Infectious Disease, Pasteur Institute,
       Paris


     You may want to find out if some of these scientists are Fellows of RMS and you may be
     able to obtain a supporting reference on my behalf.

     For your ready reference and use, I am enclosing a brief bio-data of mine in an
     electronic form ( [2]File:MLK bio, revised)

     Let me know if you need any other info in this connection.

     Thank you

     Sincerely

     Madhav Khandekar
     Unionville, ON, L3R 7Z5
     Canada

     -----Original Message-----
     From: Althea Howard [[3]mailto:Althea.Howard@rmets.org]
     Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:30 AM
     To: mkhandekar@rogers.com
     Subject: Application for Fellowship ref 00022570

     Dear Dr Khandekar,
     Many thanks for your application, but unfortunately we are not able to arrange sponsors
     for you. I note that you are a member of both the AMS and CMOS, so if you are acquainted
     with any members of those Societies I can check to see if they are Fellows of the Royal
     Met Soc. and you could then approach them as potential sponsors.
     I look forward to hearing from you again,
     Best regards,

     Althea Howard (Ms)
     Membership, Subscriptions and Accounts
     Royal Meteorological Society
     104 Oxford Road
     Reading
     RG1 7LL
     Tel 0118 9568500, Fax 0118 9568571
     membership@rmets.org

   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
   NR4 7TJ
   UK
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