date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:34:19 +0100
from: "Prof B.E. Launder" <brian.launder@umist.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Royal Society/Wolfson Merit Award
to: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>

Mike:

This is VERY good news from several perspectives. Certainly the 
extra funds that thus become available for normal Tyndall projects 
is extremely valuable both for the research itself and the favourable 
impact the development must have on the research councils 
funding Tyndall. Moreover, the fact that the funding is for five years, 
a period which extends well beyond our first phase of funding, 
strongly reinforces the idea that Tyndall should continue beyond 
Phase 1. Finally, the fact that the funds have been awarded by a 
body as prestigious as the Royal Society helps underline Tyndall's 
high standing.

Following this news, I will make enquiries with the Royal Society to 
see how long someone who is not a citizen of the UK or 
Commonwealth has to be resident here before they are eligible for 
admission to the Fellowship. If I get the right response I'd be happy 
to work up a submission with John Shepherd for posting next year 
(it's already too late for this year).

Finally, Mike, in closing let me express on behalf of Tyndall North 
our thanks for your initiatives in securing this award for John. I 
know only too well how much work is involved in getting a 
successful case together.

Hope the tele-conference goes well next week. I'm sorry to miss it 
but as I said I arranged to be in Marseilles on October 31st and 
November 1st.

Brian

PS: Already this morning there have been (another) two quite 
strong earth tremors here in Manchester. It's hard to see the 
connection but I just wonder whether climate change may have 
some invisible role in these events too.   B.
Professor B. E. Launder, FRS, FREng
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