[EA Coast] Zanzibar Project Update

Mon Oct 13 20:51:20 UTC 2008

Dear David and All,
This is follow up on a discussion in this forum about how useful could be
ROMS for elucidating the physical factors for coral reef stress in the
Mafia area. While I agree with Dr. Kamazima Lwiza that the more
observations the better I also think that a numerical model could be very
useful in what you want to study, or even could give you some hints about
how to design your observational work. I am not familiar at all with
ADCIRC but from what I have seen in workshops an in this page:
http://adcirc.org/  I am not sure it is what you need. If  I understood
correctly you are interested in knowing where the water aver the reefs
comes from, and perhaps more information such as chemical properties,
temperature, turbidity, etc. Please see the attached paper that might be
of your interest. Here in our group we have a PhD student working with
similar problems using a more formal/objective methodology but his work is
still not published, I will let you know when it is ready.
Any how, it is our intention to develop (or help to...), sooner or latter,
a ROMS model for a larger area than the Zanzibar channel and I think that
this model, in addition to observations, could be used to answer, at least
partially, some of your questions.

Best Regards,
Javier

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/

> Jurgen,
>
> Thank you for the good work.  I have been thinking about what wold work
> for
> Dr. Obura's challenge, and I don't think ROMS is the answer, but a
> wet-and-dry model like ADCIRC model might produce what he wants.
>
> Kamazima
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> Kamazima Lwiza, Associate Professor
> Director Env. Living Learning Center
> School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences
> Stony Brook University
> Stony Brook
> NY 11794-5000
> Tel: 631-632-7309
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> 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
>
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