date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:53:48 +0100 from: Andrew Watkinson subject: Re: Jim Hall and DEFRA to: Mike Hulme I will pursue a meeting in September or October. Who do you think should be involved: ARW, MH, Rob Nicholls, Jim Hall, and John Rees I have not see the letter from Steve Hawkins I will put down the Dearing letter on my list of things to do Regards Andrew At 13:24 26/07/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Andrew, > >I have had a brief chat with Jim Hall about his view of DEFRA's view of >Tyndall's coastal work. He recognises the balance we have to strike >between working within the policy environment led by DEFRA, yet not being >scientifically constrained by DEFRA's worldview in what we do. He is >seeking to make links between the two Tyndall coastal projects he is in >and the SMP process, seeking additional DEFRA funds to make these >connections. He also recognises the political sensitivity of many coastal >management decisions and that it would not help Tyndall if we casually >upset any local/national political sensitivities. > >He feels the EA are probably more sympathetic to what Tyndall is doing. > >He agreed that a bi-lateral Tyndall-DEFRA meeting on coastal issues at >some point would be beneficial. So could you pursue this for some time in >Sept or Oct.? > >Also, two reminders before I go on holiday - we ought to get back to >Dearing with a Tyndall view on how we would like their ideas to be >developed and I think there is a letter circulating (did I circulate it?) >from Steve Hawkins about their wish to have some loose link with >Tyndall. At some point we need to reply to that also. > >See you later in August. > >Mike > > > > > > > ================================================================= Professor Andrew Watkinson E-mail: a.watkinson@uea.ac.uk Phone:+44(0)1603-592267 FAX:+44(0)1603-507719 Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Schools of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK WWW Servers: http://www.uea.ac.uk/bio and http://www.uea.ac.uk/env ==================================================================