Tiempo Climate Newswatch

Editors

Mick Kelly is a consultant with Tanelorn Associates, based in Whakapara, Northland, New Zealand. He is an associate staff member of the Stockholm Environment Institute (York, United Kingdom) and a visiting fellow with the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, United Kingdom).

Mick was born in England in May 1951. On graduating in Physics and Meteorology at Reading University in the United Kingdom, he joined the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia as a graduate student shortly after the Unit was established by Professor Hubert Lamb in 1972. He was awarded a doctorate in 1976. Developing a career as an interdisciplinary researcher and teacher in the Climatic Research Unit, he served as Director of Graduate Studies for the University of East Anglia before leaving the University in 2007.

A member of the team that developed the new, improved global temperature record some twenty years ago, Mick now specializes in climate data analysis, the causes of climate change and climate and development issues, including vulnerability, adaptation and other policy matters.

He enjoys combining his skills as a scientist and his interest in art in programming for the Web and developing the Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary.

Mick is the author of over 100 scientific journal articles as well as numerous pieces for popular magazines. With John Gribbin, he wrote a popular account of the global warming issue called Winds of Change, based on the award-winning television documentary Can Polar Bears Tread Water? He has written and presented a number of programmes for radio and television.

He spends his spare time running, listening to jazz and classical music and engaging with an area of regenerating native forest.

The Tiempo editorial staff can be contacted at tiempo.editorial@gmail.com.

Sarah Granich is a consultant with Tanelorn Associates, based in Whakapara, Northland, New Zealand.

Sarah was born in New Zealand in August, 1952. She left New Zealand in 1970 and spent the first ten years living in Australia. During these years she worked, amongst many activities, as a gardener, waitress, farm manager, freelance writer, published poet, and on a prawn trawler. From 1980, she lived variously in France, Thailand and Switzerland, working as a freelance travel writer and photographer. In late 1988, on moving to the United Kingdom, she met Mick Kelly. They married and have been working together since that time. Sarah and Mick moved to Whakapara, Northland, New Zealand in 2007.

Sarah's work on the Tiempo website includes design, research, commissioning of articles and maintaining the various databases as well as sub-editing and production. She has produced a number of fact sheets for what is now the Information Unit for Conventions and, with Mick, has written numerous articles for a wide variety of journals, magazines and other publications, all dealing with the issue of climate change. The other main area of interest she shares with Mick is their continuing involvement in research in Vietnam, which began in late 1991, and the development of broader work on environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region.

Otherwise, Sarah is happily occupied with never-ending activities on their 69 acres of land, developing an eco-friendly and self-sufficient lifestyle and supporting the regeneration of the native bush, with its kauri trees, tree ferns and kiwis, that occupies most of their property.

The Tiempo editorial staff can be contacted at tiempo.editorial@gmail.com.

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