cc: n.sheard@uea.ac.uk date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:20:34 +0100 from: Mike Hulme subject: Girton meeting and Launch to: Neil Adger ,Nigel Arnell , Mike Hulme , Nick Jenkins , Brian Launder , Simon Shackley , John Shepherd , Andy Watkinson A few items to bring you up to date with and some requests: 1. Invitations to the launch have now gone out. You will be aware of a request re. poster displays already gone out from Nicola. Can I add two more things to ask you: (a) we will be preparing a Tyndall poster for each Programme consisting primarily just of a very large photograph(s) that captures the Programme and a very short piece of text explaining what the Programme aims to do in lay terms. These will have a clear Tyndall identity (other posters will be more mix and match since I imagine most will be pre-existing). Can you send me no more than 200 words of text that captures the essence? I could do this myself from the bid, but it's more authentic if you write it yourself (it is also a good exercise for you to summarise the Programme aims in no more than 200 words!). (b) breaking science stories that we can plant at (before) the launch. Please ask around to see whether there is any work by you or colleagues that is both exciting for the press and relevant for Tyndall that we can put into a press release (e.g. reports being released, papers being published, workshops being held, etc.). I am pursuing one story myself from work I'm doing in CRU, but it would be good if we can trail 2-3. This will massively increase our chances of getting national press/media coverage. Please send any thoughts to me. 2. I hope you are making preparations for the Girton meeting on the 9th October and in particular a short 10 minute presentation on your Programme area - use this as an opportunity to steer discussion later in the day and also to steer the sort of project priorities you would like to see. I will kick off the day with a 10 minute refresher on the Tyndall research objectives. Included in this will be a list of organisations with whom I have had substantive contact over recent weeks about collaboration with Tyndall Centre (see attached document). If there are others you have had similar dealings with then please let me know so I can add to my list (i.e., specifically Tyndall-related dealings/conversations, not a general list of all your collaborators!!). I want to do this so the larger group are fully aware of the breadth of organisations who are excited/interested in working with us. 3. Invitations to the Advisory Board have started to go out with already 3 acceptances. I have two questions about names here. (a) Paul Jeffriss from the Green Alliance has been nominated representing NGOs. Alternatives here included Jonathan Porritt (Commission for Sustainable Development) and Stephen Singer (WWF-Europe) and Tony Juniper (FoE). I don't know Paul Jeffriss - does anyone have any strong views on this? (b) Prof. Jyoti Parikh from Indira Ghandi Institute in Mumbai. Again only know to me through her writings. Do those in the know have any alternatives to her from non-Annex I world and academic and ideally a woman? Or are people happy? All for now, Mike Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\collaborators.doc"