I am willing to serve on a geoengineering board. Oliver Wingenter
On Jan 6, 10:41 pm, [email protected] wrote: > To quote Gene: > > I have a company to run and cannot take the time. > > True for me, too, but I'll help as I can. > > Gregory Benford > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eugene I. Gordon <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:34 pm > Subject: FW: [geo] Geoeng Professional Body > > I would be glad to participate in an advisory position. I am not a > geoengineer but I have the physics background and credentials to be helpful. > So I enthusiastically support this direction and would be glad to > participate with an interested group to scope it out. A geoengineering > society can provide a staff, a website, news notes, a peer reviewed > publication both online and paper, meetings and workshops, and last but not > least grant funding for promising experiments in geoengineering. In that > respect there are precursors like the March of Dimes, the American Heart > Association, etc. The funding is provided by donations. That would be new > for an independent technical organization but is common for medical > organizations. > > -gene > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Lockley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:45 AM > To: Eugene I. Gordon > Subject: Re: [geo] Geoeng Professional Body > > can i ask you to send your support to the list? i personally have no idea > how to set up such a body. I'm really not the right person to lead on it. > Maybe Ken C is. > > A > > 2009/1/6 Eugene I. Gordon <[email protected]>: > > Terrific. If the group had a publicaction, particularly with On Line > > access, and peer review, it could take off very fast. The membership > > would be light at first but fundraising would allow a small staff. If > > it provided some seed money for geoengineering research to members it > could take off very fast. > > > I have a company to run and cannot take the time. However there are a > > number of young university folks that might find the effort rewarding. > > During my career I founded two journals, a major meeting, and one > > profeesional society. I don't have the strength to do it aqain. > > > -gene > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Lockley > > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:16 AM > > To: Geoengineering > > Subject: [geo] Geoeng Professional Body > > > Would anyone be interested in looking into setting up a professional > > body for Geoengineering? Something like the Institute of Mechanical > > Engineers in the UK. I think this would be a good way to gain a > > footing for the field, in terms of credibility, integrity and funding. > > > A --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
