date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:49:05 -0400 from: "Bamzai, Anjuli" subject: RE: Sent on behalf of Jerry Elwood, Acting Associate Director of to: "Phil Jones" Good. I will use the Nature paper for a weekly, Nobel notwithstanding. Please give a read and OK Anjuli -----Original Message----- From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:29 AM To: Bamzai, Anjuli; Carlson-Brown, Karen Subject: RE: Sent on behalf of Jerry Elwood, Acting Associate Director of Science for BER Anjuli, Was reminded about this by your Technical Manpower Survey. Everything has been resolved now and the grant is through. The new one still yet hasn't been registered, so I can't put the text in I've written. The latest one there is the one that ended end of May last year. Maybe this will get up in due course. The Nature paper got quite a bit of coverage here, but seems to have been swamped now with the Nobel Peace prize award for IPCC and Al Gore. Cheers Phil At 17:22 10/09/2007, Bamzai, Anjuli wrote: Phil, I had no idea Chicago had questions about how UK university staff are paid. I have not been asked to provide any clarifications or additional info. We are getting close to end of FY (sept 30) and I hope everything gets resolved by then... Anjuli -----Original Message----- From: Phil Jones [[1] mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:54 AM To: Carlson-Brown, Karen; Bamzai, Anjuli Subject: Re: Sent on behalf of Jerry Elwood, Acting Associate Director of Science for BER Dear Anjuli and Karen, I have written an abstract for what I think of as the current project. I cannot submit this as the renewal is still being dealt with by the Chicago office. There seems to be an inordinate delay in getting it approved. I and someone from the University Registry have been in touch with someone in Chicago, but it is still not settled. It was supposed to start on May 1, 2007, but was delayed by your CR. Discussions now seem to be about how in the UK University system staff are paid - this differs from the US. This hasn't been a problem before, but seems the stumbling block now. The timing hasn't been helped by holiday breaks during July and August. I am still working on the assumption that it will be approved at some point. I will be coming to the meeting in Indianapolis, the week after next, but have had to pay for the flights from somewhere else - which I'll reimburse when it comes through. I have had to move the staff to get paid from elsewhere, which hasn't caused problems yet, but it will soon, if the issue isn't resolved by October. Best Regards Phil At 19:54 28/08/2007, you wrote: Dear BER Investigator, The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) has developed a database system designed to provide a summary of BER's research to the public. The initial content will be descriptions of all projects that are currently active. This initial phase will require your providing an abstract for your current project, and this information will be maintained for the duration of your project period. When the project is renewed or when you receive a new award, you will then be required to provide new information. This system will complement, not replace the RIMS system. You will still be required to submit progress reports via the RIMS system. You have been assigned a user name by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), who is operating the system for BER. Username consists of LastNameFirstInitial (for example, smitha, johnsonb, millerc). Passwords will not be required for submitting an abstract. The URL for the system is [2]http://www.osti.gov/oberabstractsadmin/. Once at the site, enter your username (leave password field empty) and click Logon. Find your project by entering information in one or more of the fields provided and click Search. A results list will be returned. Select the appropriate project from the list and click the Submit Abstract link to the right. Paste the abstract text into the box provided and click on Submit. You will receive a confirmation message that the edit was successful. You may submit abstracts for additional projects, if applicable. Once you have completed the submission, click on Logout. If you encounter technical difficulties with the system, please contact [3]Lorrie Johnson (865-576-1157). Thank you in advance for your cooperation in building this system. For questions relating to this system, please contact the appropriate division program assistant: Climate Change Research - [4]Karen Carlson-Brown (301-903-3338), Life & Medical Sciences - [5]Joanne Corcoran (301-903-6488), or Environmental Remediation Research - [6]Kim Laing (301-903-3026). [] Jerry W. Elwood Acting Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research Karen Carlson-Brown [7]karen.carlson@science.doe.gov 301-903-3338 fax: 301-903-8519 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded Content: 12dfd151.gif: 00000001,1b5a208c,00000000,5ac71ec0