<div dir="ltr">Hi Jurgen, <br><br>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. <br>
<br>I think it's fine if you write him directly as I have already talked to him. <br><br>J <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Javier Zavala-Garay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jzavala@marine.rutgers.edu">jzavala@marine.rutgers.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear David and All,<br>
This is follow up on a discussion in this forum about how useful could be<br>
ROMS for elucidating the physical factors for coral reef stress in the<br>
Mafia area. While I agree with Dr. Kamazima Lwiza that the more<br>
observations the better I also think that a numerical model could be very<br>
useful in what you want to study, or even could give you some hints about<br>
how to design your observational work. I am not familiar at all with<br>
ADCIRC but from what I have seen in workshops an in this page:<br>
<a href="http://adcirc.org/" target="_blank">http://adcirc.org/</a> I am not sure it is what you need. If I understood<br>
correctly you are interested in knowing where the water aver the reefs<br>
comes from, and perhaps more information such as chemical properties,<br>
temperature, turbidity, etc. Please see the attached paper that might be<br>
of your interest. Here in our group we have a PhD student working with<br>
similar problems using a more formal/objective methodology but his work is<br>
still not published, I will let you know when it is ready.<br>
Any how, it is our intention to develop (or help to...), sooner or latter,<br>
a ROMS model for a larger area than the Zanzibar channel and I think that<br>
this model, in addition to observations, could be used to answer, at least<br>
partially, some of your questions.<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Javier<br>
</font><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
Javier Zavala-Garay<br>
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences<br>
Rutgers University<br>
71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8521, USA.<br>
ph: 732-932-3433<br>
fax: 732-932-8578<br>
email: <a href="mailto:jzavala@marine.rutgers.edu">jzavala@marine.rutgers.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/" target="_blank">http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/</a><br>
<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Jurgen,<br>
><br>
> Thank you for the good work. I have been thinking about what wold work<br>
> for<br>
> Dr. Obura's challenge, and I don't think ROMS is the answer, but a<br>
> wet-and-dry model like ADCIRC model might produce what he wants.<br>
><br>
> Kamazima<br>
> ______________ _______________<br>
> Kamazima Lwiza, Associate Professor<br>
> Director Env. Living Learning Center<br>
> School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences<br>
> Stony Brook University<br>
> Stony Brook<br>
> NY 11794-5000<br>
> Tel: 631-632-7309<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> This is an update on the Zanzibar Project and a response to Dr. Obura's<br>
> earlier email to this list.<br>
><br>
> NSF grant:<br>
> -----------<br>
> 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<br>
> (IMS)<br>
><br>
> in Zanzibar for two months during one summer from 2009 to 2011. The<br>
> 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<br>
> 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>
><br>
> 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,<br>
> you<br>
> could put up a poster and/or send out an email both available at<br>
> <a href="http://www.ZanzibarProject.org/advertising.php" target="_blank">www.ZanzibarProject.org/advertising.php</a>. Many thanks for your help in<br>
> advance.<br>
><br>
> New web site:<br>
> ---------------<br>
> The Zanzibar Project has also a new web site at <a href="http://www.ZanzibarProject.org" target="_blank">www.ZanzibarProject.org</a>.<br>
> (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>
><br>
> Possible Partnerships:<br>
> ----------------------<br>
> 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<br>
> 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<br>
> recent<br>
><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>
> <a href="http://www.ZanzibarProject.org/network.php" target="_blank">www.ZanzibarProject.org/network.php</a>. A partnership between Dr. Obura's<br>
> project and the Zanzibar Project is therefore in principal possible.<br>
><br>
> All the best,<br>
><br>
> Jurgen<br>
><br>
><br>
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