date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:19:41 -0500 from: "Wahl, Eugene R" subject: RE: wengen paper progress AND new position stating August to: , , Hi Tim (and Phil and Keith): Thanks, Tim, for the work on this. I've looked things over briefly, and have booked time next weekend to get to it in earnest. It's quite a job you've done to put all the pieces together. One question, and to Phil and Keith also, is whether you see/saw significant difference between the results I'm reporting from my work with Caspar and those reported by Francis and his co-workers. I will look for this, of course, but want also to check with you. Caspar says he doesn't think there should be any problem, but I'd also like your opinion. And, of course, difference can be a good thing too... I'm sorry that I can't look at the text sooner, but we have a major event going on here (and at 1200 other universities and colleges in the US) this week. It is called "Focus the Nation", and is a major effort to stimulate the political landscape to take climate change issues seriously -- especially with our presidential "primaries" going on, and a major number of the state voting on Feb. 5. I am significantly involved in this as Asst. Prof. of Environmental Studies, so my time is pretty limited for the next 6 days. Finally, you may have heard that I have accepted a scientist position with the NOAA Paleoclimate Branch. I will be starting in August, after I complete Spring term here at Alfred and have the chance to move and get settled back in Colorado. I am excited to make this move, and have the chance to do more significant focusing on my research than I've been able to do during this academic year. Below is a copy of the e-announcement released by NOAA. Peace, Gene -------- Original Message -------- Subject: New scientist at the Paleoclimatology Branch Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:07:41 -0500 From: David Easterling To: _NESDIS NCDC All /w PB & Contractors It is with pleasure that we announce that Dr. Gene Wahl currently at Alfred University in NY has accepted our offer, and will join the Paleoclimatology Branch in Boulder this coming August. We are very lucky to have Gene join us. He is an expert in climate reconstructions of the past millennium using tree rings and multi-proxy data networks. He has pioneered new methods in this area, testified on this topic for Congress, and participates in the PAGES focus on this theme. Gene began his paleo career in palynology, and completed his PhD on pollen analysis with Margaret Davis at the U. of Minn, one of the pioneers of paleoecology. In this area he has worked with transfer functions and analog techniques, methods relevant to all our fossil count data. Finally, Gene brings expertise in the statistical analysis of climate data, including new methods to compare paleoclimate and model data, an area that will be of benefit not only in paleo but also to the Scientific Services Division and NCDC in general. -- David R. Easterling, Ph.D Chief, Scientific Services Division NOAA's National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 V: +1 828 271 4675 F: +1 828 271 4328 David.Easterling@noaa.gov -- David M. Anderson NOAA Paleoclimatology Branch Chief and Director, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology NOAA's National Climatic Data Center 325 Broadway, E/CC23, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328 Tel: (303) 497-6237 ________________________________ From: Tim Osborn [mailto:t.osborn@uea.ac.uk] Sent: Sat 1/26/2008 1:44 PM To: p.jones@uea.ac.uk; k.briffa@uea.ac.uk; Wahl, Eugene R; francis.zwiers@ec.gc.ca Cc: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk Subject: wengen paper progress Hi Phil, Gene, Francis and Keith, I've now finished putting Gene's and Francis' contributios together with some text of mine into section 3 of the "Wengen" paper. Everything has been done with tracked changes so that you can follow (and undo if necessary) what I've done. Gene -- this is the same as Friday's version except that I have now continued from page 34 to the end of your contribution with a few further suggested changes. Phil -- I've also had time to comment on the ice core section, so there are some suggested edits there too. Francis -- your contribution forms section 3.4.1. I included the edits that I had previously sent you... so please see my previous email if you want to undo any of them. Is the Lee et al. paper out yet? If so, could you send the full citation? Keith -- when you have time, I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at the sections 3.2 and 3.3 that I added on CPS methods and on the pseudo-proxy approach to see if they read ok. Cheers Tim