date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:23:13 +0100 from: Rob Allan subject: Reference for Gail if needed to: Phil Jones Phil, Not sure if you were aware that with Dennis Wheeler and Martin Juckes from BADC, we've managed to get a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Digitisation Programme: Enriching Digital Resources grant for a project entitled ‘UK Colonial registers and Royal Naval Logbooks: Making the past available for the future.’? Anyway, its worth about £183K over two financial years and starts in October. It will employ two people, Catharine Ward (Post Doctoral Research Assistant) and Gail (Research Assistant) through Sunderland Uni, but we'll still have to go through the usual loops in appointing them. Would you be happy to give Gail a reference if it is asked for? Her role will be very much as she's done for EMULATE and ACRE now anyway - in this case digitising (also imaging), checking and archiving weather observations from UK island colonial stations - the 4/6 lighthouses in the Carribean bound in the ship logbooks, St Helena and Maldern and any other Pacific islands we can fit in from the MO Archives back to the 1850s/60s or so. Thanks in advance. Hoping all goes well. Cheers, Rob. PS: Philip and I are working on the new ACRE WWW site under Google - one can get at it via the redirection from the old site. -- Dr Rob Allan, ACRE Project Manager, Climate Monitoring and Attribution Group, Met Office Hadley Centre. E-mail: rob.allan@metoffice.gov.uk ACRE WWW Page: http://www.met-acre.org/ Alternative E-mail: allarob@googlemail.com Phone: +44 (0)1392 886904 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681 International phone: +44 1392 886552 Met Office climate change predictions can now be viewed on Google Earth http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/google/ Address: Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB United Kingdom