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<p>Jurgen,<br>
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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 <font size="4">a wet-and-dry model like ADCIRC </font>model might produce what he wants.<br>
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Kamazima<br>
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Kamazima Lwiza, Associate Professor<br>
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School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences <br>
Stony Brook University <br>
Stony Brook<br>
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Tel: 631-632-7309<br>
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<tt>Dear all,<br>
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This is an update on the Zanzibar Project and a response to Dr. Obura's <br>
earlier email to this list.<br>
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NSF grant:<br>
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The US National Science Foundation has recently awarded a grant that gives <br>
undergraduate and graduate students in the US the opportunity to gain <br>
international research experience at the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) <br>
in Zanzibar for two months during one summer from 2009 to 2011. The students <br>
will be supervised by IMS research staff and Dr. Javier Zavala-Garay at <br>
Rutgers University, who will be with the students in Zanzibar. They will <br>
work on two different types of projects. One will be on further developing a <br>
coastal model of the dynamics of the Zanzibar Channel (using ROMS) and the <br>
other on making measurements in the Zanzibar Channel (using an ADCP and a <br>
CTD), which are needed to improve and validate the model.<br>
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If you are able and willing to advertise this opportunity to undergraduate <br>
and graduate students in the US, I would be very grateful. To advertise, you <br>
could put up a poster and/or send out an email both available at <br>
</tt><tt>www.ZanzibarProject.org/advertising.php</tt><tt>. Many thanks for your help in <br>
advance.<br>
<br>
New web site:<br>
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The Zanzibar Project has also a new web site at </tt><tt>www.ZanzibarProject.org</tt><tt>. (It <br>
still might change since not all those mentioned on the web site have yet <br>
had a chance to review it and suggest changes.)<br>
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Possible Partnerships:<br>
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The Zanzibar Project is very open to partnerships. Besides a ROMS model of <br>
the Zanzibar Channel, a ROMS model of a much larger region that contains the <br>
Zanzibar Channel will also be developed in order to obtain boundary <br>
conditions for the Zanzibar Channel model. The model of the larger region <br>
could perhaps be useful to the project that Dr. Obura described in a recent <br>
email to this list. Such a model is in fact already being developed by <br>
Gabriela Mayorga-Adame at Oregon State University in the US. A few details <br>
on her work are given in section "Oregon State University" at <br>
</tt><tt>www.ZanzibarProject.org/network.php</tt><tt>. A partnership between Dr. Obura's <br>
project and the Zanzibar Project is therefore in principal possible.<br>
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All the best,<br>
<br>
Jurgen <br>
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