CORRESPONDENCE
WITH U.S. NSF
December
11, 2003
Dear
Dr. Verardo,
Any
progress on this?
I
would have thought that the issue pertained more to the obligation of grantees
to publicly archive their data, as opposed to the issue of intellectual property
ownership. The 1991 US GRCP Policy Statement made it abundantly clear that public
archiving was a major policy objective and worried about dilatory
principal investigators.
I
think that the paleo-climate program is an excellent program and the public
archiving by the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology is superb. However, it
appears that some of your grantees - I've mentioned Mann, Bradley and Hughes -
are dilatory in compliance with the above policy and I think that it's important that
they and others comply with their archiving obligations. I am sure that we are
in agreement on this.
I've
also noticed that Lonnie Thompson has not archived his important and frequently
cited data from Dunde, Guliya and Dasuopu ice cores, some data going back almost
15 years. This should be rectified.
From
my point of view, the ideal outcome would be that you prod dilatory grantees
into completing the required public archiving, which must surely be a desired
outcome for you as well.
Regards,
Steve McIntyre |