cc: Phil Jones date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:32:29 +0100 from: Sandy Tudhope subject: budgets to: Chris Turney Hi Chris, Good to talk to you a moment ago. As we discussed, the final budgets must be clearly aligned to meet our objectives, with the added pragmatic issue of ensuring critical mass of resources to each institution to help them deliver. Having said that, just to give you an idea, the costs for delivering on the new coral data for 4 sites as described in the WP would be in the region of 395k (FEC). This is based on: - 60 days fieldwork and associated costs (boat hire; travel; shipping; consumables): 125k - 10,000 geochemical analyses (del18O and Sr/Ca): 160k - support staff salary costs (for workshop and fieldwork): 36k - Co-I salary (15% in Y1 then 5% for each of Y2-4): 27k - Misc (equipment upgrade; consumables; XRD, SEM): 10k - conferences, meetings, publication: 6k - Estates and Indirect: ~31k TOTAL: 395k Note this does not include any post-doc time. I envisage that a post doc would be better spent working on model-data comparison and statistical analyses rather than on data generation that can be done in our labs, i.e., shared, e.g., with Gabi. Cheers, Sandy -- _____________________________________________________________________ Professor Sandy Tudhope, School of GeoSciences, Grant Institute, Edinburgh University, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW,U.K. Tel: +44 131 650 8508 +44 131 650 4842 (sec.) Fax: +44 131 668 3184 e-mail: sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.