cc: p.jones@uea.ac.uk date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:49:08 -0400 from: "Bamzai, Anjuli" subject: RE: Symposium for Tom to: santer1@llnl.gov, "Kevin E. Trenberth" Dear Ben, Tom Wigley I presume ....? I think it's fine by me, to use some of your Fellowship funds towards the symposium costs, there is quite some leeway in how you spend the funds on this award. However, there are permissions that LLNL needs to seek ... if a lab holds a WS using DOE funds (the threshhold is 10K, but please doublecheck). You'd need to provide the site office with details of the WS objectives and fill out some forms. Not sure how onerous it'd be. Best wishes, Anjuli -----Original Message----- From: Ben Santer [mailto:santer1@llnl.gov] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:29 PM To: 'Kevin E. Trenberth' Cc: 'Philip D. Jones'; Bamzai, Anjuli Subject: Symposium for Tom Dear Kevin, I spoke to Tom yesterday regarding the idea of a one-day scientific symposium in his honor, to be held at NCAR. I think Tom is now receptive to this idea. I believe that such a symposium would be a very appropriate way of celebrating Tom's seminal scientific contributions - not only to our own field, but also to aqueous geochemistry and karst hydrology. Tom taught me how to be a scientist. He had - and continues to have - an enormous influence on my own scientific career and on the careers of a many others. It would be fitting and appropriate to try to bring together Tom's colleagues at NCAR and the larger "family" of scientists with whom Tom has collaborated over the years (people like Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Sarah Raper, Tim Osborn, and Tim Atkinson at CRU; myself, Karl Taylor, and Peter Gleckler at PCMDI, Jae Edmonds, Rich Richels, Steve Smith, Mike MacCracken, Bob Charlson, etc.) Tom and I discussed possible dates for such a symposium. His preference would be to have it about a year from now at NCAR. I would be very happy to take the lead in planning this event. I have not yet approached Anjuli regarding the possibility of using some of my DOE funding (from my DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellowship) to provide some level of financial support for the planned symposium. I am copying Anjuli on this email, and hope I'll be able to clarify this issue soon. At the moment, I just wanted to check whether you (and NCAR) are agreeable to the idea of holding this symposium at NCAR. With best regards, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Benjamin D. Santer Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-103 Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A. Tel: (925) 422-2486 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----