From	Trevor Davies	Date	Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:51:51 +0100
To	c.bentham@uea, p.jones@uea, j.palutikof@uea, p.liss@uea, m.hulme@uea, r.k.turner@uea, k.brown@uea, j.darch@uea
Subject	Climate change centre info.
>Envelope-to: t.d.davies@uea.ac.uk >From: "Andrew Watson" >To: "Trevor Davies" >Subject: Climate change centre info. >Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:11:01 +0100 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 > >Hi Trevor >I was with John Shepherd earlier this week. He told me he >was phoned up last Friday by Tariq Ali at Imperial College, >seeking to sign him up to the IC bid; it seems that IC's >relations with Oxford may have gone sour. If that is the >case, IC will probably make strenuous efforts to detach some >of the members of the consortium that UEA is trying to put >together. >I was attending a meeting on the "miilliesym" proposal, and >we were treated to a talk from Ian Dwyer of NERC (new >position to co-ordinate global change research) on the >climate change centre. Two things I picked up that I didn't >know before (but you may) were >(1) All the decisions, both on the outline proposals and >full proposals, will be taken by a panel of experts >(academics from overseas and industry). There will not be >the normal peer review system. I asked if there would be the >opportunity to suggest names for this panel, but the answer >appeared to be no; the panel will be selected and organised >by the research councils, chiefly NERC. >(2) The split of funding for the centre will be (per year) 1 >million NERC, 0.75 million EPSRC, 0.25 million ESRC. >Cheers, Andy >*********************************** >Prof Andrew J. Watson >email: a.watson@uea.ac.uk > or : a.j.watson@uea.ac.uk >phone: (44) 1603 593761 direct > 1603 456161 switchboard > 1603 507719 fax >School of Environmental Sciences >University of East Anglia >NORWICH NR4 7TJ >U.K. >http://www.uea.ac.uk/~ajw/ajw.htm >*********************************** > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Professor Trevor D. Davies Dean, School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom Tel. +44 1603 592836 Fax. +44 1603 507719 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++