cc: broecker@ldeo.columbia.edu, Mike Hulme date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:05:52 +0100 from: John Shepherd subject: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research to: amoura@iri.ldeo.columbia.edu Dear Antonio Just to let you know that I am visiting at Lamont this week (10-14 April), and that we have just heard that our bid (with UEA et al) for the new UK Climate Change Research centre (about which we spoke when I was hear last October) has been successful... It's remit is highly interdisciplinary (includes engineering and socio-economic aspects) and is firmly directed on solutions rather than predictions (so it should be complementary to the work of the Hadley Centre, IRI, etc). If you're around this week maybe I could stop by and explore possible future collaborations we might think about ?? One element of the work (though not the major one) will be global issues & the developing world (as they're v.v. important and UEA has a School of Development Studies...), which could interface quite nicely with IRI work. Also, are you aware of the following meeting... >Also, Michael Meacher [UK Environment Minister] has pressured DETR [UK Dept of the Environment] into hosting a 24-hr. show and >tell session with Columbia Earth Institute and 'relevant UK climate >scientists' in July sometime. I [i.e. Mike Hulme] and maybe 1-2 other Tyndall people have >been invited by David Warrilow to this. Not quite sure who's who at >Columbia but you could perhaps ask whether anyone at IRI are invited to >this exclusive 24-hr. retreat in 'a rather fine old hotel in East Sussex'. > and do you know who would be likely to attend? If so maybe I could talk to them and explain what's going on with the new centre, now firmly named the Tyndall Centre after John Tyndall ? Regards John PS I recently acquired a Brazilian PhD student (in fisheries) and shall probably visit Sao Paulo in the summer. Is there anyone in the climate field (e.g. IRI alumni) I could/should talk to while I'm there ?? _______________________________________________ I am working at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory from 10 to 14 April 2000. My e-mail is being forwarded , so please just reply to my usual address, or to shepherd@ldeo.columbia.edu John Shepherd