date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:54:45 -0700 from: claudia tebaldi subject: IDAG proposal: final chance *by September 23rd* to: Myles Allen , Knutti Reto , "Stott, Peter" , Gabi Hegerl , "Zwiers,Francis [Ontario]" , Tim Barnett , Hans von Storch , Phil Jones , David Karoly , Toru Nozawa , Ben Santer , Daithi Stone , Richard Smith , Nathan Gillett , Michael Wehner , Doug Nychka , Xuebin Zhang , Tom Knutson , Tim Delsole , "Jones, Gareth S" , Stephen Leroy , seung-ki.min@ec.gc.ca, dpierce@ucsd.edu Dear IDAGgers I am aiming for submission by September 28th. I should tell you that in fact we could submit after October 1st without major consequences, but that would mean the project would be funded -- if successful -- starting the next fiscal year. I'm saying this so that if you have major concerns with the proposal as it stands you can hit the breaks hard and we can try and address them. This said, unless I hear about this major type of concerns, I will try to submit before the end of the month, so: By mid-week next week, I.e. **** by Wednesday the 23rd *** I would like you to a) tell me if you are dissatisfied with some part of the proposal and how you would like to edit it AND b) send me your bio sketch if you want consulting money. I sent all the details previously so I'm not going to repeat them here, but please note that the bio-sketch needs to follow some pretty detailed rules, so please go back to my previous email about those. We are going under the assumption that the level of funding available for consulting is $8,000 per person which for simplicity I will characterize as two weeks' worth, so that we do not have to worry about those of you in academia having a 12 months' salary (per Anjuli's directive, two weeks are as much as it is admissible in that case). I never heard from a few of you. For those I will assume travel money is all that is needed unless I hear otherwise AND RECEIVE THE BIO in time, and of course I'll have to go under the assumption that they are ok with the proposal as it stands. Thank you to all of you that contributed to the proposal this time around cheers claudia -- Claudia Tebaldi Research Scientist, Climate Central [1]http://www.climatecentral.org & Adjunct Professor Department of Statistics - UBC Vancouver office 604 822 3595 (Canadian area code) cell 303 775 5365 (US area code)