cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, masson@dsm-mail.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, 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, 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 date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:37:29 +0100 from: Hubertus Fischer subject: Re: IMPRINT task 1.1 budget must be cut to: Tim Osborn Dear Tim and Manuel, thanks for the info. I think you are right that we have to cut into the flesh. By the way please note that the AWI numbers did not include the 20% overhead so the number in your spreadsheet effectively represents a 20% budget cut which I accept to do my share. Now to the cutting: a) An obvious cut for task 1.1 are archives which do not fulfil our requirement of (near)annual resolution. There are still speleothems mentioned in the task description, do they really fulfil that criterion? b) For the last 2000 years the analysis of the NGRIP ice core may be questioned because for that time period we have other Greenland cores. However, we HAVE to have this record for task 1.2 and 1.5 anyway and since the costs are split across the tasks and we cannot inflate the other tasks, I would strongly argue not to touch it. But I cannot judge from my viewpoint where other communities and groups plan to acquire new data. Please reconsider your plans with respect to that. c) All the groups have to reconsider whether the amount of money they asked for is really needed or could be reduced. In case of AWI with the effective 20% budget reduction the limit is reached, sorry. Cheers Hubertus ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Osborn Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:41 am Subject: IMPRINT task 1.1 budget must be cut > 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 > 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