date: Fri Jan 16 12:14:52 2004
from: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Tim Mitchell
to: Wilkinson_Paul,kovats_Sari

Paul, Sari,

This is to let you both know that Tim Mitchell will be leaving UEA employment after 29 February 2004 (he is taking a career change into the Christian ministry).  I therefore propose that the outstanding part-time salary for UEA on the Co-op, be used by Franziska Matthies.  Franziska's current p-t contract with UEA ends on 31 March, although she has a p-t contract also with a German organisation.  She - and we - are very keen to retain her skills and enthusiasm within the Tyndall Centre and given the input she has already made to the Co-op and UEA/LSHTM collaboration, this seems the most logical solution.

Franziska however is not an expert on climate data so I will be appointing someone else to take over this aspect of Tim's work and this person will be expected to contribute to any climate data/scenario needs that the Co-op have.  I will let you know in due course who I have managed to appoint to this position (from some of my other contracts).

LSHTM may well get an official request for permission to replace Tim with Franziska which I hope you will speedily grant!

Many thanks,

Mike