date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:05:35 +100
from: hleusch@gwdg.de
subject: pepperland
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

Hey Keith, 

I have heard from Phil that you have been in India - good coincidence 
to Beatle-film Sgt. Pepper I watched last evening. I hope the big 
Guru has a good eye for us as well and Nowhere-man will be a friend 
of us. 
Now business: After stressy teaching/administration start of the year 
I remembered that there is some 10K left. I phoned with Marco and 
Mike - it seems that everyone is acting as an ostrich, hiding its 
head in the sand and waiting for passing of our big ambitions. I'm 
still waiting for data from Hohenheim to show comparison of different 
ways (mean age, intensity of deposition) which condense information 
to a single curve. The striking similarity of Marco's 
riverine-oaks deposition curve with the  Greenland ice data 
as well as the similarity of German, Dutch and Irish bog 
oak stand dynamics are the cream of the evaluation of our material - 
we just have to sell it in the best way.
Further I continue learning and understanding the basics of tree's 
growth - much help had been a new book of Fritz I had to reviev 200 
pages about wood-anatomical response to a lot of happenings (frost, 
woundings etc.). Fritz is a genius- I forgive him all little and 
bigger mistakes. I'm still considerating about a paper to 10 K. It's 
at first sight speaking against a climate/ring width response, shows 
the in case overwhelming influence of  non-climatic parameters, would 
lead to filtering methods (clustering etc) to extract those samples 
which tell a climatic story.
So - Just to  tell you Im still alive

Hubert