cc: simon.tett@metoffice.gov.uk, Dominique Raynaud date: Mon Jan 31 15:08:38 2005 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: Brussels and Imprint to: Eystein Jansen thanks for this news Eystein I too talked briefly with Hans , but not Ib. It would still be useful as you say to emphasise the focus in our project on assessing future potential change and mechanisms - as far as I can see , the Millennium proposal seeks to develop new proxies , but with much attention as to why. We need to make the "value" of our data and data/model work very clear , so they can defend IMPRINT when the anti- paleo lobby get to work. I will certainly try to push this unofficially in talks with Ib . Subltle interventions by Andre and Jean -Claude could be most useful here also. Keith At 14:27 31/01/2005, Eystein Jansen wrote: Hi Keith, Simon and Dominique, I talked with Brelen today. He is handling the paleo-IP in the Commission. They have not yet found a replacement, so he continues, which is good in this process. He was very friendly. I had sent him an overviw of the partners which he had asked for to avoid inviting people as experts reveiwers who are involved in the proposal. He complimented our ability to attract the bets groups in Europe. I invited myself to Brussels, and he said they were hesitant to do this because they are afraid of paying favours to any special project. He said he would check with Troen about this policy, and came back and said they would prefer to avoid such meetings during this phase. Thus, we need to do remote lobbying. Since you all have good contacts, or your institutions have, it would be wise to contact Brelen, and more importantly Troen or other people in the Global Change Unit to ensure that they a) Realise how the Imprint approach is a major undertaking of the best European labs to really make paleoclimate make a difference to the predictions and modelling activities. b) Underscore the close connections to Ensembles, c) Go through with them how they interpret the wording of the call, to make sure we have a joint understanding of what it means in terms of being relevant for predictions and climate dynamics. From the review of the competing Millennium proposal it seems that these aspects of the call were not considered much. We need to influence the comission as far as possible so that they know what they will miss if the project is not funded. Best regards, Eystein -- ______________________________________________________________ Eystein Jansen Professor/Director Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Dep. of Earth Science, Univ. of Bergen Allégaten 55 N-5007 Bergen NORWAY e-mail: eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no Phone: +47-55-583491 - Home: +47-55-910661 Fax: +47-55-584330 ----------------------- The Bjerknes Training site offers 3-12 months fellowships to PhD students More info at: [1]www.bjerknes.uib.no/mcts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/