From	Michael E. Mann	Date	Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:03:13 -0400 (EDT)
To	Phil Jones
CC	Tim Osborn
Subject	Re: Something far more interesting
Dear Phil, Of course I'll be happy to be on board. I think the opportunity for some direct collaboration between us (me, and you/tim/keith) is ripe, and the plan to compare and contrast different approaches and data and synthesize the different results is a good one. Though sidetracked by other projects recently, I remain committed to doing this with you guys, and to explore applications to synthetic datasets with manufactured biases/etc remains high priority. It sounds like it would all fit into the proposal you mention. There may be some overlap w/proposals we will eventually submit to NSF (renewal of our present funding), etc. by I don't see a problem with that in the least. Once the collaboration is officially in place, I think that sharing of codes, data, etc. should not be a problem. I would be happy to make mine available, though can't promise its the most user friendly thing in the world. In short, I like the idea. INclude me in, and let me know what you need from me (cv, etc.). cheers, mike ____________________________________________________________________ Michael E. Mann Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences Morrill Science Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 ____________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@snow.geo.umass.edu Web: http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike Phone: (413) 545-9573 FAX: (413) 545-1200