That’s what happens when you lose trust by your emails being leaked, no matter how world class you may be.

It takes a life to build trust and a reputation and a moment to lose it. (as different Universities will find from Climategate I hope)

That’s why character counts!
Rightly or wrongly, that’s also why people now suspect all climate people of being in on the loop to fudge both info/data and reports on that info/data.
That it involves 5-6 or 50-60 doesn’t matter everyone gets looked at awry like.

Wee bit disingenuous there

Who is? Are you trying to say the research of your good friend was world class but the work of some of his colleagues is suspect?

But in their defence, the majority contact I’ve had with NIWA has been very positive. A good friend of mine was a marine biologist there for quite a few years. Their research was, and I’m guessing remains world class.

We own it don’t we?

Yeah it’s basically a state-owned enterprise. The vast majority of funding comes from contestable public and private consultancy work. They have a very good website and they publish loads of information, papers etc on the work they do.

No more government funding of NIWA.

Yeah, let the fishing companies survey the fisheries and set the quotas. That’ll work fine.

Most of the armchair generals on here wouldn’t have a blue clue about science or indeed what NIWA do. Go and have a look at the fishery surveys they do with their in-house acoustics systems. It’s world-class. All the papers are online. That equipment and expertise goes all over the world to do surveys for countries which lack this ability.

What if NIWA accepted funding from The Digital Strategy’s Community Partnership Fund? Would that be alright?

I could apply to work for NIWA, since I know Physics (been trained as one) and also a specialist in scientific computing, where writing numerical codes and modeling of complex differential calculus equations are my cup of tea. Perhaps, I can write better and correct models. I am sure that NIWA is using the open-source LAPACK (linear algebra package) or some of its variants (high performance version/s), written in Fortran to run simulations in their recently purchased new super-computer. I use the Java version of this library , ie, JLAPACK, which is quite fast (popular in numeric intensive applications – engineering/scientific). Modelers at CERN use JLAPACK to run their intensive particle physics experiments.

Nah, I wouldn’t want to work at NIWA full-time. Perhaps on a per project contract only, but definitely not a full time role, since I will get bored in working on the same model everyday, which you will eventually get sick of. I like what I am currently doing now, since I get to be all round (ie, implementing many types of models in a varieties of domains).

If NIWA does fire most of its top warmist scientists, then I suggest that their recruiters should make contact with Prof. John Butcher’s (scientific computing) group at University of Auckland, because the individuals that involve in this group are top notch in their own fields (well cited publications – internationally). Most have gone overseas to do post-doc and also to take up teaching positions over there.

You’ve never put up an original thought here. I doubt you’ve had one. All you are is a plagiarist of the likes of Wishart and the crusader rabbits – and probably an embarrassment to them at the same time.

Not very smart if you are the Government and you are interested in making sure you get maximum value from your research spending??? Surely fewer applicants/tenderers = less competition?