date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:01:15 -0500 from: Kim Cobb subject: Re: [Fwd: Invitation to Proxy Uncertainty workshop, June 9-11, to: Keith Briffa Dear Keith, Thanks for the prompt reply, and the tentative yes. I would hate to think that anyone on our invite list won't come because they're a few hundred dollars short of funding, so please let us know if you'll need additional funding to attend, and we'll see what we can do. Hope to see you soonish, KIM Keith Briffa wrote: > Kim > sorry I read your other (multiple) message first. This is a strong > tentative yes - just need to check flights etc and costs before I said > definitely. Best wishes > Keith > > At 04:04 04/02/2008, you wrote: > >> Dear Keith, >> I hope this finds you well. I'm buried in coursework and conference >> planning (I believe it was you who cautioned me against this a couple >> of years ago in Wengen!) >> >> Anyway, you were the only one I didn't hear back from in response to >> our original invite (attached). >> I figured that because you were there when the idea was born, you >> would want to attend, so I marked you a 'yes'. >> Can you let me know if you think you can make it to Trieste this >> summer? If you can't, we'll want to invite another tree-ring >> specialist to the conference. >> Many thanks, >> KIM >> >> >> Message-ID: <47223388.7090801@gatech.edu> >> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:35:52 -0400 >> From: Kim Cobb >> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> 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, LJWILLIA@epri.com, >> thorsten.kiefer@pages.unibe.ch, kc182@gatech.edu >> Subject: Invitation to Proxy Uncertainty workshop, June 9-11, 2008, >> Trieste, >> Italy >> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >> boundary="------------050809070200090007050707" >> >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> On behalf of the organizing committee, we invite you to attend a >> PAGES/CLIVAR workshop entitled "Reducing and Representing >> Uncertainties in High Resolution Proxy Climate Data", to be held at >> the ICTP in Trieste, Italy June 9-11, 2008. The workshop prospectus >> is attached for your review. The workshop will bring together >> representatives from each major high-resolution paleoclimate archive >> to discuss proxy-specific sources of error, and strategies for >> reducing these errors. Your contributions are essential to the >> success of the workshop, and we sincerely hope that you can attend. >> >> Thanks to the ICTP, the Electric Power Research Institute, and PAGES, >> funds are currently in place to cover US$1000 of your travel expenses >> (roughly US$400 of which will cover your lodging, breakfasts, and >> lunches at ICTP). Pending additional workshop funds, requests for >> additional funding will be handled on a case-by-case basis, as needed. >> >> Please respond with a tentative yes or no as soon as possible, so >> that we can ensure that each proxy group is well-represented. >> >> Thank you, and we hope to see you in Trieste next summer. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Kim Cobb >> Janice Lough >> Jonathan Overpeck >> Sandy Tudhope >> Thorsten Kiefer >> >> > > -- > Professor Keith Briffa, > Climatic Research Unit > University of East Anglia > Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. > > Phone: +44-1603-593909 > Fax: +44-1603-507784 > > http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/