cc: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:24:29 +0100 from: Phil Jones subject: Something far more interesting to: mann@snow.geo.umass.edu Mike, Tim Osborn is resubmitting a NERC proposal to work on paleo data/reconstructions. NERC is the UK NSF. He would like to put your name down as a collaborator, to work on the project for 0.5hrs per week. 0.5 is the minimum value we can put down. All you would have to do though is one of the following : - run your reconstruction method through some data we give you - give us your program and we run it here - come to some agreement about your basic data used in the Nature paper One of the first two is OK, but the latter in the longer-term would be preferable. We can live without the latter, though. The main benefit from our point of view is joint work, so you would be a co-author on at least one paper resulting from the work. You will also get to see others for comments etc. We are reasonably confident of success as we've been asked to resubmit the proposal from a year ago. We need an answer, hopefully positive, in the next couple of days. Cheers Phil Dr 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------