CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>
Hello, Kim,
I am writing to introduce myself and provide you my contact information. I am a retired lawyer from Chicago who has been helping Barrett with Project PM, doing administrative tasks. You can contact me at this e-mail address; my phone number is below. I am copying this to Scott Mintz, who is also working with Barrett on the project.
I believe you are pretty familiar with what we are doing, since you have been on the Workshop PM blog since it started. In addition to some of the names you are familiar with from the workshop blog, Barrett recently recruited a scientist-blogger, Mano Singham, a physicist, who is
Director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and
Education at Case Western Reserve University; his blog is at http://blog.case.edu/singham/
. Another probable blogger participant is Allison Kilkenny whose blog is Unreported.
Barrett and I would like to take advantage of your Africa knowledge for that sub-project, and I believe he will be talking to you soon about this, if he hasn't already. I noticed that, like myself, you read Joseph Treaster's posts on True/Slant, and the types of water issues he (and you) address there are of great interest to us.
I am expecting a surge interest and new participants when Barrett's book is published. This will require us to get more organized and have better communications. We are working on identifying participants for a number of sub-groups, including the Africa Project. Barrett and I also have discussed discontinuing the Workshop blog as an in-house forum and replacing it with a periodic e-mailed news letter since it is clear that our participants like e-mail better than sharing information on a group forum.
Glad to have a geologist on board: my uncle and his wife both worked for the USGS; he was also a petroleum geologist in Saudi Arabia. I have a first cousin in Austin who is a geologist employed by the state of Texas.