date: Thu Sep 6 15:41:42 2001 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: november abrumpt change esf meeting to: Keith Alverson Keith It will as it turns out, be very inconvenient for me to attend. I would have to leave early to get back here to pick up a flight to the US that is booked already by a collaborator . I could though ask my collaborator here Tim Osborn to take my place if you would pay his expenses. We just do not have the cash to cover such things at present. Tim could give a really useful presentation on the use of the density network to reconstruct the multi-century temperature record , including vital info on the uncertainties . He is a coauthor on my recent papers and is doing the work anyway. He can also show how these , and other palaeodata, are used to provide quantitative estimates of the 'detection' of unprecedented warming in the longer context (at different spatial scales). He is also very acquainted with the details and significance of Mike Mann's Hemispheric Temperature work (he worked over there with him this year) and he is doing great things with NAO in the instrumental and model data. All in all then much better value for money than me - but not nearly as good looking. Would it be alright if I asked him to substitute for me? At 02:26 PM 9/6/01 +0200, you wrote: Hi Keith and Ray, I am not sure if you are planning on attending as speakers at the ESF abrupt change meeting. Please let me know if you will be there. The following people have backed out: overpeck, broecker, markgraf, joussaume, zolitschka, mitchell all other speakers have confirmed (except the two of you who are ? marks) New speakers are Olga Solomina, Mikhael Levitan (we had some money to invite ex soviet speakers) and Mark Rodwell (to replace Mitchell) Thomas Stocker, Jean-Claude Duplessy and I have now gone through 300 applications and have accepted 150 people. I anticipate that between 100-120 will attend given that many were offered no funding. For your info on finances, along with the 780 euro fee covering room and board (etc.) we will be giving you some travel money. In the current (tentative budget) I have blocked 420 euro for briffa travel and 1120 euro for Bradley (these are expected upper limits). Keith -- Keith Alverson Executive Director PAGES International Project Office Bärenplatz 2, 3011 Bern Switzerland [1]http://www.pages-igbp.org Tel: +41 31 312 31 33 Mobile: (+41) 079 641 9220 Fax: +41 31 312 31 68 -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [2]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa[3]/