cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:42:51 +0000 from: Phil Jones subject: This and that to: ian renfrew ,"Andrew Watson" > Ian, Andy, Keith Briffa and I have just come back from a 2hour meeting with Jacquie, Alastair and also Mike Hulme. As expected given the statement at School Board the week before last, we're not going to be able to get a replacement for Nathan Gillet for some years. We're also not going to get a replacement for Saffron O'Neill either. Issue for WW is that a Nathan replacement was down for the new Climate Feedbacks course. We either need to drop this idea, or find someone else. You'll have heard from Jacquie that she thinks the WW group is too big. She's also worried that ENV's Climate Science and Climate Change (the whole Climate agenda) is not that coherent. We have expertise across all areas of IPCC WGs and beyond this as well, but we don't co-ordinate ourselves. This is moving target as the climate agenda/debate is continually evolving. If any faculty were asked, they probably would all say they are working on some aspect of climate. I don't want to start a debate on how we can improve co-ordination, but the issue is going to continually resurface. We're we any better in the past? Is our size the issue? 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------