date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:49:05 +1300 from: "Richard Warrick" subject: RE: IPCC and UEA to: "Phil Jones" Phil, Thanks for all the newsy bits about ENV and CRU. I abhore these kind of RAEs. We had to do similar exercises whilst I was at IGCI/Univ Waikato and I detested them. Mostly, they soaked up enormous amounts of time. Although in retirement, I still do bits and bobs here and there. I have an Adjunct Prof position at a small university in Australia, called University of the Sunshine Coast, near Brisbane. We actually have assembled quite a clutch of people as Adjuncts (including at least four IPCC lead authors) in order to pursue climate-change-related teaching, applied research and local engagement in adaptation. I go over there about four times a year to teach an intensive post-graduate professional development block course in climate change impact and adaptation assessment. One of the aims is to create an international network of collaborative centres that offer the course, with the aim of eventually getting dual accreditation. For example, California State University at Chico has joined and Jeff Price (lead author WG2 and fiancé of Rachel Warren at Tyndall Centre, by the way) is driving the activities there. The ultimate strategy is to get a collaborative centre at a number of regions throughout the world and build a network of like-minded people who can share in teaching methods and materials, research and practical applications. Whether it will eventuate remains to be seen. If anyone there is interested, let me know. I have corresponded with Mick, but not for quite a while. He sent me information on the location of their new property in Northland. As my family and I are headed that way for a holiday in December, I shall make contact again with the hope of seeing him. Cheers for now, Dick -----Original Message----- From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:10 AM To: Richard Warrick Subject: RE: IPCC and UEA Dick, Thanks for the quick reply! Trying to put all this together is difficult, developing a scoring system will-nigh impossible, but I reckon ENV has more involvement in IPCC over the years than anywhere else! We have this stupid Research Assessment Exercise in the UK, so the preface about ENV for the 2008 (and hopefully last) one of these can say phrases like these. 1. ENV has had more involvement across the IPCC Assessments (from 1990 to the present) than any other institution in the world! (includes places like the Hadley Centre and NCAR as well - so not just academic institutions) 2. Also ENV has more Nobel Peace Prize Laureates than anywhere else!! This is a bit vain, but I'm hopeful of everyone involved getting a copy of the certificate after it is awarded in Oslo on Dec 10! So, retiring ! In NZ - or are you going somewhere else? I have some years to go yet - possibly 10, unless UEA make me an offer. That might be a possibility if the RAE doesn't go too well. CRU is about the same size as it was when you were here, but ENV is much bigger. ENV will be returning about 70 faculty in the RAE next year. Our MSc in Climate Change has 26 this year, but 50 do the CC courses fom across the modular masters. Keith has just capped the U/G course at 50 students (out of the 180 doing the U/G course). 3 U/G students signed up for Atmospheric Chemistry! Many reckon loads more would do this if it were called Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry! The whole U/G course might get changed to Climate and Environmental Sciences - seems as though you have to have that 7 letter word in everywhere. Have you heard Mick retired to NZ in March. He's about 100km north of Auckland. I can dig out an email if you're ever up that way. Cheers Phil At 22:31 16/10/2007, you wrote: Hi Phil, Got the message below with attached table from Tom Wigley. Although I retired from the University of Waikato this year, I still can be reached at this email address for a couple more months. As regards the table: You may wish to note that I left UEA in 1992, well before the IPCC SAR publications. Unlike Tom, I did not retain any sort of affiliation with UEA. If you still decide to count me for the SAR, I also contributed to Working Group II as a Lead Author, as follows: Basher, R.E., Pittock, A.B., Bates, B., Done, T., Gifford, R.M., Howden, S.M., Sutherst, R., Warrick, R.A., Whetton, P., Whitehead, D., Williams, J.E., Woodward, A., (1998). Chapter 4: Australia. In: R. Watson, M. Zinyowera, R. Moss and D. Dokken (eds.). The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability. A special report for IPCC Working Group II. Cambridge University Press. 105-148. Bijlsma, L., Ehler, C.N., Klein, R.J.T., Kulshrestha, S.M., McLean, R.F., Mimura, N., Nicholls, R.J., Nurse, L.A., Perez Nieto, N., Stahkhiv, E.Z., Turner, R.K. and Warrick, R.A., (1996). Coastal zones and small islands. In Watson, R.T., Zinyowera, M.C. and Moss, R.H. (eds.) Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 289-324. Hope all is going well for you. Cheers, Dick ___________________________________________________________________________________________ From: Phil Jones [[1] mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 3:42 AM To: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk; t.osborn@uea.ac.uk; n.gillett@uea.ac.uk; wigley@ucar.edu; p.liss@uea.ac.uk; c.lequere@uea.ac.uk; Sarah Raper; m.hulme@uea.ac.uk Subject: IPCC and UEA Dear All, The attachment has some congratulatory text (not sure who from - it's not me) then Tables of who has been involved from UEA during the 4 IPCC Assessments for WG1. Someone else is doing WG2 and 3, but do add in any involvement there - especially for the first 3 Assessments. The aim is to collect all the UEA involvement, to justify a claim we might use in the RAE - that is that UEA has had more involvement than any other academic institution in the world. I wonder if this can be made even greater - any more than anywhere else. The likely contenders with us for the latter are the Hadley Centre and NCAR - unless any of you can think of other 'worthy' institutions for the claim. Can you look through what I've put you down for? I've been through the Assessments quite quickly, so have likely made some mistakes especially with omitting CA involvement and also TS and SPM? I don't have an email for Dick Warrick. Can anybody think of others from UEA who have been involved in any of the reports - whilst at UEA? I know there are others who were at UEA, but their involvement has been after they left. Cheers Phil Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------