cc: "'Philip D. Jones'" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:07:33 -0800
from: Ben Santer <santer1@llnl.gov>
subject: Invitation to participate in the Wigley Symposium
to: "Richels, Richard" <RRICHELS@epri.com>

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Dear Rich,

As you may know, Tom Wigley recently retired from his position as Senior 
Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Tom 
remains affiliated with NCAR, but increasingly will be shifting his base 
of operations to Australia and the University of Adelaide.

In an illustrious scientific career spanning over 45 years, Tom has made 
major contributions to our understanding of past, present, and future 
environmental (particularly climatic) change. His contributions are 
unique in terms of both scope and impact. They have been made in such 
diverse areas as aqueous geochemistry, plume rise theory, the origin of 
life, dendroclimatology, the construction and analysis of observed 
surface temperature datasets, climate change detection and attribution, 
the development and application of energy balance models, integrated 
assessment, climate impacts, CO2 and climate stabilization, and 
geoengineering. He also has made significant scientific contributions to 
all four IPCC reports, and to a number of other national and 
international assessments of various aspects of climate science.

Professor Phil Jones and I are organizing a one-day "Wigley Symposium" 
to honor Tom. This is an opportunity to thank Tom for advancing and 
enriching our field. It is also an opportunity to celebrate his past 
accomplishments, to look forward to new ones, and to wish him well for 
the future.

We hope you will be able to attend the Symposium, which will take place 
at NCAR on June 19, 2009, immediately following the annual NCAR 
Community Climate System Modeling Workshop in Breckenridge.

With assistance from Tom, Phil Jones and I have drafted a program for 
the Symposium (see attachment). The intent is to have a series of 14 
thirty-minute lectures on various aspects of climate science and the 
other areas where Tom has worked. Ideally, each talk should incorporate 
some discussion of Tom's contributions.

At this stage, we'd like to inquire whether you would be available to 
attend the Wigley Symposium on June 19th and present a talk entitled:

"The challenge of stabilizing climate"

You obviously have full freedom to come up with a more creative and/or 
intriguing title!

We'd be grateful if you could let us know by January 31 or sooner 
whether you will be able to attend and give a talk at the Symposium.

With best regards,

Ben Santer and Phil Jones

(P.S.: There will be some funding to cover the cost of a Symposium 
dinner on the evening of June 19th. Save in exceptional cases, however, 
most Symposium participants will have to pay their own travel and 
accommodation expenses).

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Benjamin D. Santer
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-103
Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.
Tel:   (925) 422-3840
FAX:   (925) 422-7675
email: santer1@llnl.gov
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