date: Fri May 12 15:29:43 2006 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: FW: Bradley to: "Maher, Barbara" all that comes immediately to mind is his ability to leave some colleagues with more than their share of the cumulative wine bill on certain trips in South Africa - though you might say something of his sterling work in the development of the IGBP PAGES , which exemplifies his wide understanding of climate and paleoclimate evidence , and gives him a unique ability to integrate and synthesise the evidence of climate change . Seriously he does have a very wide range of expertise in the analysis of instrumental, lake sediment, ice data- though unfortunately only a passing acquaintance with tree-ring data . glad your paper got sorted eventually cheers Keith At 15:03 12/05/2006, you wrote: HI Keith Howre you? Hot day down in Norridge? Can you kindly see the request below re. Ray Bradleys hon degree, to which your official invite letter will be winging its way to you this coming week. Could you poss. Email me some pithy comments along the lines of Olivers request? Thanks a lot Barbara PS Got some v. nice comments re. my just-out Holocene paper! ___________________________________________________________________________________ From: Oliver Westall [[1]mailto:o.westall@lancaster.ac.uk] Sent: 11 May 2006 10:22 To: Maher, Barbara Subject: Bradley Barbara Im turning my mind to Ray Bradleys honorary degree in July. Of course, I will rely on you for the hard facts of his scientific contribution, along with anyone else you feel might be helpful. I have a brief note he has provided himself, but what I will be looking for is an informed judgement on his real contribution, which is so often entirely obscured by numbers of publications and so on. But beyond that, I will really be looking for people who actually know him well, so that I can bring a personal touch to the proceedings. Are you in that slot or do you know anyone who is in the UK? And, of course, I will want to know what I should say in my remarks to advance the interests of Lancasters research in this area. It would be nice to have a lunch or other meeting some time but you might feel it easier to write something out. Please dont polish it up as I will want to use my own final text and of course, you wont want to spend too much time fiddling with it. Let me know how you feel. O Oliver Westall Lancaster University Management School Lancaster LA1 4YX 01524-594219 (and voice mail) 01524-791566 07866 457538 -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [2]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/