cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, frank@wsl.ch date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:35:37 +0100 from: jan.esper@wsl.ch to: osborn@uea.ac.uk Hi Tim You might sense that I am not very happy with the cut of 48k, but I also get the impression that you are quite under pressure with this budget. Anyway, if you think we should further reduce, then I guess, I cannot just say "no". So, I suggest that you reduce our budget now down to 130k, which I believe was mentioned for the WSL right from the beginning for WP1. Hope this is now fine. About Valerie, yes within Isonet there is going to be a ca. 400-year isotope record from Col du Sard (using 4 trees I believe). We have 400 cores (covering all age classes) from the middle and high Atlas ready for analysis. You can imagine that we can use all this material to come up with quite conclusive ideas about the long-term evolution of climate in Morocco. Please let me know, if you need further information about our intentions. I somehow disagree with you that the study on low-frequency variations in tree-ring data should be limited (to UEA), and believe that you had to argue this way just because of budgeting reasons. Anyway, I think that we should take the chance and collaborate with you, Keith and Tom, if you are interested (even if Imprint is not funded...). Hope this is the last cutting round for now, and that we can get back to science soon. I am just hating these money issues, and believe that all this must bother you too. Best wishes Jan Cc D Frank K Briffa Delivered-To: esper@wsl.ch Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:41:43 +0000 To: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk,masson@lsce.saclay.cea.fr, Laurent.Labeyrie@lsce.cnrs-gif.fr,Elsa.Cortijo@lsce.cnrs-gif.fr, hutterli@climate.unibe.ch,wanner@giub.unibe.ch,juerg@giub.unibe.ch, karin@natgeo.su.se,eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no, hufischer@awi-bremerhaven.de,ddj@gfy.ku.dk,sigfus@gfy.ku.dk, guiot@cerege.fr,esper@wsl.ch,frank@wsl.ch,eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru, antti.ojala@gsf.fi,r.battarbee@geog.ucl.ac.uk,j.holmes@ucl.ac.uk, brazdil@sci.muni.cz,jerome@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr,barbante@unive.it, shishov@forest.akadem.ru,karin@natgeo.su.se,A.Lotter@bio.uu.nl, dirk.verschuren@UGent.be,carin.andersson@geo.uib.no, John.Birks@bot.uib.no,dan.charman@plymouth.ac.uk,juerg.beer@eawag.ch, Sandy.Tudhope@ed.ac.uk From: Tim Osborn Subject: IMPRINT task 1.1 budget must be cut X-UEA-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-UEA-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-WSL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-WSL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-WSL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.062, required 6, BAYES_00 -4.90, MIME_MISSING_BOUNDARY 1.84) X-MailScanner-From: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk Dear all, URGENT! the attached spreadsheet shows the latest task 1.1 budget. I realised that it is necessary to separate out the travel/consumables/equipment associated with just this task (Oyvind's spreadsheet just allowed for a total across the workpackage for those headings). The new spreadsheet shows only the task 1.1 costs. Some people followed Oyvind's spreadsheet and gave only totals for the WP1, but I have split these proportionally according to how many tasks those partners were involved in. Please adjust your total if necessary! I have cut out the GKT varved lake work as that is moved to task 1.2, reducing cost by 68k. I have moved UMB (Milano) to CONISMA (Roma) and dropped the stratigraphy work (leaving only half of the dust size work in task 1.1), reducing cost by about 40k. I have reduced UEA budget by 20k. I have reduced UNIBE budget by 15k (as suggested by Manuel). I have reduced UBERN budget by about 30k (as agreed by Juerg, to focus on Europe not NH). I have reduced MU budget by 15k (as agreed by Rudolf, to focus on documentary data only). I have reduced WSL budget by 48k (reduced work on European dendroarcheological sources from 12 months to 6 months), but moved the Moroccan tree-ring work from task 1.4 to 1.1. Total staff costs look to be 1 mEuro, but total task cost is 1.23 mEuro when travel, consumables and equipment are included. Keith and Valerie need us to reduce this to 0.9 mEuro total! We cannot do this by trimming round the edges - there needs to be a cut in the deliverables. Please make suggestions to me and Manuel. Cheers Tim #Attachment converted: MacEsper:Budget_task_level_osborn_ 1.xls (XLS4/XCEL) (00117993) Dr Timothy J Osborn Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk phone: +44 1603 592089 fax: +44 1603 507784 web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP (http://horde.org/imp/) at WSL (http://www.wsl.ch).