cc: lkeigwin@whoi.edu, r.r.dickson@cefas.co.uk, Cathy.Johnson@defra.gsi.gov.uk, haugan@gfi.uib.no, rwood@meto.gov.uk, j.m.slingo@reading.ac.uk, p.j.valdes@bristol.ac.uk, marotzke@dkrz.de, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk, valborg@mercury.soc.soton.ac.uk date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:22:51 +0100 from: Meric Srokosz subject: Arctic IPY Announcement of Opportunity to: sxj@soc.soton.ac.uk, mccave@esc.cam.ac.uk, shb@soc.soton.ac.uk, a.j.willmott@keele.ac.uk, ewwo@bas.ac.uk, ric@liv.ac.uk, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, b.j.hoskins@reading.ac.uk, ericg@met.rdg.ac.uk, Sandy.Tudhope@ed.ac.uk, a.watson@uea.ac.uk, hlb@soc.soton.ac.uk, pc@soc.soton.ac.uk, ncw@soc.soton.ac.uk, j.holmes@ucl.ac.uk, j.bamber@bristol.ac.uk, C.Hughes@pol.ac.uk, i.j.fairchild@bham.ac.uk, c.pain@imperial.ac.uk, J.Lowe@rhul.ac.uk, davidm@met.reading.ac.uk, rowan@met.reading.ac.uk, Mark.Chapman@uea.ac.uk, wena@st-andrews.ac.uk, j.m.gregory@reading.ac.uk, kh@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk, he101@esc.cam.ac.uk, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, Sandy.Harrison@bristol.ac.uk, grant.bigg@sheffield.ac.uk Dear all - please see http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/polarsci/arctic_ipy_ao.shtml for the AO for Arctic IPY. This is looking for consortium bids to do studies in the Arctic and provides a potential opportunity for RAPID-related studies to be extended to the northern N. Atlantic. As those involved in RAPID I would like to encourage you to think about putting in a bid to the Arctic IPY AO that could build on the science that has been funded under RAPID. If you need advice then I am happy to try to help. Of course, Bob Dickson (a member of the RAPID Steering Committee) is the person with particular interest in this aspect of RAPID science and better able to provide advice and information on how bids could best be integrated with existing activities (such as ASOF). Meric -- Dr. Meric Srokosz, Room 254/43,Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK Tel:+44-(0)23-80596414 (direct line); Fax: +44-(0)23-80596400 e-mail: mas@soc.soton.ac.uk or M.Srokosz@soc.soton.ac.uk http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/SAT/pers/mas.html Science Coordinator NERC Rapid Climate Change Programme http://rapid.nerc.ac.uk/ ***************note that from 1st May 2005******************** SOC will become National Oceanography Centre, Southampton ***************************************************************