date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:02:20 +0100 from: Phil Jones subject: Fwd: problem with one of your people not sharing data to: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk FYI >X-Authentication-Warning: ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk: defang set sender >to using -f >Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:37:23 +0100 >From: Thomas Crowley >User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) >To: mpurdy@ldeo.columbia.edu >Subject: problem with one of your people not sharing data >X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk > with MIMEDefang 2.60, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus >X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 127.0.0.1 >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.60 on 129.215.16.102 >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 129.215.149.64 >X-Canit-CHI2: 0.04 >X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, f028) >X-Spam-Score: 0.00 () [Hold at 5.00] >X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:f028 (inherits from UEA:default,base:default) >X-Canit-Stats-ID: 8116828 - 0c758170106a (trained as not-spam) >X-Antispam-Training-Forget: >https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=8116828&m=0c758170106a&c=f >X-Antispam-Training-Nonspam: >https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=8116828&m=0c758170106a&c=n >X-Antispam-Training-Spam: >https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=8116828&m=0c758170106a&c=s > >Dear Dr. Purdy: > >I am writing to you as the "last course of appeal" - otherwise I >wouldn't bother you from more important work. > >For years I and many fellow investigators have been trying to get >Gordon Jacoby to share his data on a valuable long tree ring record >he has produced from Mongolia. > >the efforts have almost always failed - the only exception I know of >is when he let Ed Cook use the data - big deal! > >after appealing to NSF Gordon did release some of the data to the >NOAA data repository but he did not release the synthesized index >that is useful for including in other time series - only the raw data from >the individual time series > >yes one could look at the raw data and compile it oneself but don't >you think it is best to have what the original investigator thinks >is the best long term (back to about 900 AD*) reconstruction? > >I compile ice core records to develop a unified record of volcanism >for the last 2000 years - if an investigator want a copy of my >reconstruction I send the final version to them, the one that involved >several years work, not the individual cores - the analogy should be >the same with Gordon. > >as a receiver of tons of federal money Lamont is obligated to share >such data, and I KNOW they do so virtually all the time. sadly this >is an exception and if I cannot get you to get him to release >the synthesized data, then no one will ever have it - it will be a >repeat of the Gerard Bond case where he refused to have his data >released EVEN AFTER HE DIED (equivalent to giving everyone >the finger from your coffin!) > >please please - you are really the last hope for us. > >with regards, > >Tom Crowley >University of Edinburgh > > >* I specifically list 900 AD because, knowing Gordon, if he were >asked by you, he would probably only give it back to 1500 AD unless >someone was twisting his arm to give up the whole time series > >-- >The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >Scotland, with registration number SC005336. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------