cc: "'Philip D. Jones'" date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:58:26 -0700 from: Ben Santer subject: [Fwd: Invitation to attend Symposium for Tom Wigley] to: Thomas C Peterson Dear Tom, I saw - to my horror - that I had left your name off the list of invitees to Tom Wigley's Retirement Symposium. I plead advanced senility, induced by excessive exposure to folks like Steven McIntyre. I am now remedying my mistake, and forwarding the announcement of the Symposium. I hope you'll be able to attend! 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) 422-3840 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- X-Account-Key: account1 X-Mozilla-Keys: $label1 Return-Path: Received: from mail-2.llnl.gov ([unix socket]) by mail-2.llnl.gov (Cyrus v2.2.12) with LMTPA; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:01:29 -0700 Received: from nspiron-1.llnl.gov (nspiron-1.llnl.gov [128.115.41.81]) by mail-2.llnl.gov (8.13.1/8.12.3/LLNL evision: 1.7 $) with ESMTP id n2DM1SCf015967; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:01:28 -0700 X-Attachments: None Received: from dione.llnl.gov ([128.115.57.29]) by nspiron-1.llnl.gov with ESMTP; 13 Mar 2009 15:01:27 -0700 Message-ID: <49BAD7B4.9000804@llnl.gov> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:01:24 -0700 From: Ben Santer Reply-To: santer1@llnl.gov Organization: LLNL User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krishna Achutarao , "Dr. Krishna AchutaRao" , Myles Allen , Caspar Ammann , president@ucar.edu, Rick Anthes , t.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk, "t.atkinson" , "David C. 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Mann" , michael.manton@sci.monash.edu.au, mcginnis@ucar.edu, Linda Mearns , carl mears , Jerry Meehl , Malte Meinshausen , "Mitchell, John FB" , neville.nicholls@arts.monash.edu.au, Doug Nychka , "Astrid E.J. Ogilvie" , Tim Osborn , j.palutikof@griffith.edu.au, "Parker, David (Met Office)" , tad.pfeffer@colorado.edu, rpielkejr@gmail.com, hugh.pitcher@pnl.gov, Niel Plummer , Sarah Raper , philip.rasch@pnl.gov, Andy Revkin , "Richels, Richard" , Alan Robock , "Terry L. Root" , j.salinger@auckland.ac.nz, j.salinger@niwa.co.nz, m.salmon@uea.ac.uk, Ben Santer , john@pik-potsdam.de, "'Michael Schlesinger'" , schimel@ucar.edu, Stephen H Schneider , prslawso@mecheng1.uwaterloo.ca, Richard Smith , Joel Smith , ssmith@pnl.gov, Susan Solomon , kenneth.strzepek@colorado.edu, David Taplin , Karl Taylor , Simon Tett , "'Kevin E. Trenberth'" , Chris Vincent , r.warrick@waikato.ac.nz, Warren Washington , Robert.Watson@defra.gsi.gov.uk, peter.webster@eas.gatech.edu, Michael Wehner , Frank Wentz , r.l.wilby@lboro.ac.uk, Julie Arblaster , eholland@ucar.edu, Lisa Butler Subject: Invitation to attend Symposium for Tom Wigley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear friends of Tom Wigley, As many of you may know, Tom Wigley recently retired from his position as Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Tom remains affiliated with NCAR, but increasingly will be shifting his base of operations to Australia and the University of Adelaide. In an illustrious scientific career spanning over 45 years, Tom has made major contributions to our understanding of past, present, and future environmental (particularly climatic) change. His contributions are unique in terms of both scope and impact. They have been made in such diverse areas as aqueous geochemistry, plume rise theory, the origin of life, dendroclimatology, the construction and analysis of observed surface temperature datasets, climate change detection and attribution, the development and application of energy balance models, integrated assessment, climate impacts, CO2 and climate stabilization, and geoengineering. He also has made significant scientific contributions to all four IPCC reports, and to a number of other national and international assessments of various aspects of climate science. Professor Phil Jones and I are organizing a one-day "Wigley Symposium" to honor Tom. This is an opportunity to thank Tom for advancing and enriching our field. It is also an opportunity to celebrate his past accomplishments, to look forward to new ones, and to wish him well for the future. We hope you will be able to attend the Symposium, which will take place at NCAR on June 19, 2009, immediately following the annual NCAR Community Climate System Modeling Workshop in Breckenridge. With assistance from Tom, Phil Jones and I are in the process of finalizing a program for the Symposium. The intent is to have a series of thirty-minute lectures on various aspects of climate science, highlighting Tom's contributions to our field. Several lectures will also cover other scientific areas in which Tom has worked. Within the next two weeks, we will be circulating an agenda for the Symposium and some logistical information. In the interim, please mark June 19th on your calendars! With best regards, Ben Santer and Phil Jones (P.S.: There will be funding to cover the cost of a Symposium dinner on the evening of June 19th. Save in exceptional cases, however, most Symposium participants will have to pay their own travel and accommodation expenses). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) 422-3840 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------