Dear Olaf I am emailing you to say that I will not be applying for the fellowship opportunity. It is my ideal job but I have thought about it seriously and don't feel I can quit my Wellcome fellowship half way through. Because of gc-c-irms delays in the lab I haven't got any isotope results so far so I need to continue it until its end in Sept 2006 to be able to fulfil even half of the objectives. I wish you every luck with the candidate you go for, I am delighted that Ireland is continuing to make progress (or you are!) with the application of stable isotopes to the agricultural sciences. If there was further scope for funding in that aspect of your research I would be very interested in applying for funding this time next year. I would like to stay in contact though, to see how you are getting on with the research. Thanks again, Lorna ---------------------- Dr Lorna Corr, Organic Geochemistry Unit, Biogeochemistry Research Centre, School of Chemistry Cantock's Close, University of Bristol, BS8 1TS [log in to unmask]