date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:59:51 -0500 from: Kim Cobb subject: Proxy Uncertainty workshop, June 9-11, 2008, Trieste, Italy to: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, ricardo@lab.cricyt.edu.ar, esper@wsl.ch, druidrd@ldeo.columbia.edu, sandy.tudhope@ed.ac.uk, kcobb@eas.gatech.edu, j.lough@aims.gov.au, jto@u.arizona.edu, jcole@geo.arizona.edu, thompson.3@osu.edu, steig@ess.washington.edu, valerie.masson@cea.fr, haug@gfz-potsdam.de, khughen@whoi.edu, peter@ldeo.columbia.edu, eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no, ian.walker@ubc.ca, fleitman@geo.unibe.ch, fdacruz@geo.umass.edu, pauline.treble@anu.edu.au, christian.pfister@hist.unibe.ch, gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov, ammann@ucar.edu, ngraham@hrc-lab.org, mann@psu.edu, M.N.Juckes@rl.ac.uk, wahl@ucar.edu, juerg@giub.unibe.ch, mathias@geo.umass.edu, hoffmann@lsce.saclay.cea.fr, david.m.anderson@noaa.gov, wanner@giub.unibe.ch, larry.williams@targetedgrowth.com, thorsten.kiefer@pages.unibe.ch, kc182@gatech.edu, Edward Cook , Iannitti Lisa Dear colleagues, Thank you all for your unanimous enthusiasm for the Proxy Uncertainty workshop. With the participation of a such a broad and excellent cross-section of the high-res paleoclimate community, it promises to be an exciting meeting. I encourage you to book your tickets soon, as summer fares are already increasing. You can either fly directly into Trieste (code TRS), or into Venice (slightly cheaper, probably one less connection). The conference venue (International Centre for Theoretical Physics: http://www.ictp.it/) is a short taxi or bus-ride from the Trieste airport, or a longer bus or train ride from the Venice airport (140km distance). The conference will start early on June 9 and hopefully we'll have solved all sources of proxy uncertainty by mid-afternoon on June 11th. The conference dinner will take place on June 10th. Lisa Ianitti is our ICTP coordinator (copied above), and she will soon be sending you an official letter of invite and, more importantly, an accommodation booking form. Our conference room will be sea-side in the Adriatico Guest House, so I suggest you book a (sea-side) room in the Adriatico before they fill up. Please Cc Lisa on your travel arrangements, as they take shape, and let us know if you have any questions at this point. We'll be drafting a detailed scientific agenda and sending it out for your review over the next months. We look forward to seeing you all in Trieste this summer. Sincerely, Kim Cobb Janice Lough Jonathan Overpeck Sandy Tudhope Thorsten Kiefer