[EA Coast] Zanzibar Project Update

[Javier Zavala-Garay]

Good morning Jurgen,
Are we talking today? If so, could it be possible before
noon? (I usually swim at noon when the pool is pen to
the public).

jvr

> Dear all,
>
> This is an update on the Zanzibar Project and a response to Dr. Obura's
> earlier email to this list.
>
> NSF grant:
> -----------
> 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:
> ---------------
> 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:
> ----------------------
> 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
>
>
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Javier Zavala-Garay
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers University
71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8521, USA.
ph: 732-932-3433
fax: 732-932-8578
email: jzavala at marine.rutgers.edu
http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/