[EA Coast] Zanzibar Project Update

[Jurgen Theiss]

Dear all,

This is an update on the Zanzibar Project and a response to Dr. Obura's 
earlier email to this list.

NSF grant:
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The US National Science Foundation has recently awarded a grant that gives 
undergraduate and graduate students in the US the opportunity to gain 
international research experience at the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) 
in Zanzibar for two months during one summer from 2009 to 2011. The students 
will be supervised by IMS research staff and Dr. Javier Zavala-Garay at 
Rutgers University, who will be with the students in Zanzibar. They will 
work on two different types of projects. One will be on further developing a 
coastal model of the dynamics of the Zanzibar Channel (using ROMS) and the 
other on making measurements in the Zanzibar Channel (using an ADCP and a 
CTD), which are needed to improve and validate the model.

If you are able and willing to advertise this opportunity to undergraduate 
and graduate students in the US, I would be very grateful. To advertise, you 
could put up a poster and/or send out an email both available at 
www.ZanzibarProject.org/advertising.php. Many thanks for your help in 
advance.

New web site:
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The Zanzibar Project has also a new web site at www.ZanzibarProject.org. (It 
still might change since not all those mentioned on the web site have yet 
had a chance to review it and suggest changes.)

Possible Partnerships:
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The Zanzibar Project is very open to partnerships. Besides a ROMS model of 
the Zanzibar Channel, a ROMS model of a much larger region that contains the 
Zanzibar Channel will also be developed in order to obtain boundary 
conditions for the Zanzibar Channel model. The model of the larger region 
could perhaps be useful to the project that Dr. Obura described in a recent 
email to this list. Such a model is in fact already being developed by 
Gabriela Mayorga-Adame at Oregon State University in the US. A few details 
on her work are given in section "Oregon State University" at 
www.ZanzibarProject.org/network.php. A partnership between Dr. Obura's 
project and the Zanzibar Project is therefore in principal possible.

All the best,

Jurgen