OIES Dissolved as of 1 October

Because the infrastructure to do so is now in place within the federal 
government and the National Academy of Sciences, the role of UCAR's 
Office for Interdisciplinary Earth Studies (OIES) as a provider of services 
and advice to the U.S. Global Change Research Program has been 
substantially reduced. As a result, the office has been discontinued and 
the remaining responsibilities reassigned within UCAR.

OIES director Tom Wigley has been appointed as a senior scientist jointly 
affiliated with NCAR and the Walter Orr Roberts Institute.  He will 
continue to fulfill current OIES commitments through 1995.  Paula 
Robinson will be joining the staff of the Joint International Climate 
Projects/Planning Office (JICP/PO), while Lisa Butler and Stacy Long are 
being reassigned to the Roberts Institute.  Next Monday, 3 October, the 
staff will move from their UCAR North office, with Paula joining 
JICP/PO in UN suite 100 and Tom, Lisa, and Stacy moving to ML room 
259.  No phone numbers will change.  Diane Ehret has moved to 
Vancouver, Canada, and will be completing her OIES work from there.  

With funding from the Electric Power Research Institute, Tom will be 
developing a program to continue the work of the Model Evaluation 
Consortium for Climate Assessment, directed towards providing climate 
and climate impacts modeling results of immediate value to the 
industrial and policy communities.  More details on this project will 
appear at a future time. -- BH