[EA Coast] Zanzibar Project Update

Tue Oct 14 07:14:13 UTC 2008

Hi Jurgen,

I have a meeting shortly but wanted to say that: yes, I think Ehrlich would
be interested if you do plan to come here. I mentioned about your interest,
and he seemed interested but dropped the subject after I said you would
probably have to stay in Diego and work from there.

I think it's fine if you write him directly as I have already talked to him.

J

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Javier Zavala-Garay <
jzavala at marine.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> 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
> > ______________  _______________
> > 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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> >   |"Jurgen Theiss" <j.theiss at theissresearch.org>
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> >   |10/09/2008 02:56 AM
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> >   |[EA Coast] Zanzibar Project Update
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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:
> > -----------
> > 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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