Advisors and Supporters
Dr. Brian Arbic (homepage)
Research Associate
University of Texas at Austin
Advises on living in Africa
As a former US Peace Corps volunteer for three years in West Africa and physical oceanographer, Dr. Arbic gives advice on living in a different culture and physical oceanography in general.
Dr. Patricio Bernal (homepage)
Executive Secretary of IOC and Assistant Director General of UNESCO for IOC
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Supports Dr. Jurgen Theiss' work in East Africa
In a personal meeting in 2006, Dr. Bernal expressed to Dr. Jurgen Theiss his full support of his work in East Africa and offered Dr. Theiss to contact him directly if he ever required his help.
Dr. Joannes Berque (homepage)
Program Specialist, Capacity Development
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Advises on capacity development in coastal modeling in the East Africa region
Dr. Berque and Dr. Ehrlich Desa (see below) initiated in 2005 the collaboration between Dr. Jurgen Theiss and Dr. Alfonse Dubi, which forms the core of the Zanzibar Project (Overview). Since then Dr. Berque has helped develop the Zanzibar Project and in particular focus it on contributing to the capacity development priorities of the oceanographic institutions in the East African region. IOC and the Zanzibar Project thus pursue the same goals and have become partners (Network).
Patrick Bradley (homepage)
Marine Measurements Technical Sales Engineer
Teledyne RD Instruments Marine Measurements
Advises on ADCPs
Mr. Bradley has provided valuable technical information on ADCPs.
Dr. Francois Colas (homepage)
Postdoc
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Advises on ROMS
Dr. Colas advised Gabriela Mayorga-Adame on her project at the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) in Zanzibar in 2007 (Gabriela Mayorga-Adame) and helped improve the proposal that led to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions).
Dr. Benjamin Cuker (homepage)
Professor
Hampton University
Advertises the US student opportunities
Dr. Cuker offered to advertise the US student opportunities (Opportunities) to the students at Hampton University and in his Multicultural students in Aquatic Sciences (MAS) newsletter with about 400 recipients.
Nicolas Le Dantec (homepage)
Graduate Student
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
Advises on oceanographic measurements
Mr. Le Dantec advised on which oceanographic instruments should be used for measurements in the Zanzibar Channel and was instrumental in achieving that SIO would lend an ADCP and a CTD to the Zanzibar Project at no cost. He thus contributed to the proposal that led to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions).
Dr. Ehrlich Desa (homepage)
Head of Section, Capacity Development
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Advises on capacity development in coastal modeling in the East Africa region
Dr. Ehrlich Desa and Dr. Joannes Berque (see above) initiated in 2005 the collaboration between Dr. Jurgen Theiss and Dr. Alfonse Dubi, which forms the core of the Zanzibar Project (Overview). Since then Dr. Desa, as Head of Section of Capacity Development at IOC, has officially expressed IOC's support of the Zanzibar Project, especially because its goals overlap with those of his section (Network).
Dr. Sharon Franks
Academic Coordinator
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
Advises on student recruiting, mentoring, evaluation, and dissemination
Dr. Franks has assisted substantially in developing the educational and organizational aspects described in the proposal that led to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions). As the co-founding Principal Investigator (PI) of the NSF-funded Center of Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) California, she has expertise highly relevant to the Zanzibar Project.
Dr. Michael Harte (homepage)
Professor and Director of the Marine Resource Management Program
Oregon State University
Advertises the US student opportunities
Dr. Harte offered to advertise the US student opportunities (Opportunities) to the undergraduate and graduate students in various programs at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) at Oregon State University and to work with the Zanzibar Project to ensure that the student projects at IMS in Zanzibar would form an integral part of the students' studies and research at COAS.
Dr. Marea Hatziolos
Senior Coastal Specialist and Team Leader
Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building (CRTR) Program (Program web site)
World Bank Environment Department
Establishes relations to the CRTR Program
The Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) in Zanzibar is a Center of Excellence of the CRTR Program. The work of the Modeling and Decision Support Working Group of the CRTR Program and the Zanzibar Project might in the future overlap. If this becomes the case, Dr. Hatziolos will help arrange a mutually beneficial collaboration (see also Dr. Nancy Knowlton below).
Dr. Nancy Knowlton (homepage)
Chair of the Synthesis Panel
Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building (CRTR) Program (Program web site)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Smithsonian
Establishes relation to the CRTR Program
Dr. Knowlton has encouraged Dr. Jurgen Theiss to remain in touch with her and introduced him to other members of the CRTR Program in order to determine when their respective efforts at IMS in Zanzibar might overlap and then to discuss a possible collaboration (see also Dr. Marea Hatziolos above).
Dr. Emanuele Di Lorenzo (homepage)
Assistant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
Advises on ROMS
Dr. Di Lorenzo is offering his 128 CPU computer cluster and advice on ROMS.
Stefano Mazzilli (homepage)
Program Specialist, Capacity Development
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Advises on capacity development in coastal modeling in the East Africa region
Mr. Mazzilli, based at the IOC regional office in Nairobi, Kenya, is an IOC capacity building expert specialized in the East African region. He has been informing the Zanzibar Project in detail about IOC's activities in the region and inviting those associated with the Zanzibar Project to relevant workshops or symposia in the region. In particular, Mr. Mazzilli improved the arguments about capacity development in the proposal that led to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions) so that the goals of IOC and the Zanzibar Project are better aligned. This helped solidify their partnership (Network).
Dr. Russell McDuff (homepage)
Director, School of Oceanography
University of Washington
Advertises the US student opportunities
Dr. McDuff offered to encourage the undergraduate and graduate students at the School of Oceanography to participate in the Zanzibar Project (Opportunities).
Dr. Larry Peterson (homepage)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
University of Miami
Advertises the US student opportunities
Dr. Peterson will advertise the US student opportunities offered by the Zanzibar Project (Opportunities) to the School's approximately 300 undergraduate and 200 graduate students.
Aurelien Ponte (homepage)
Graduate Student
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
Advises on ROMS and oceanographic measurements
Mr. Ponte substantially helped devise suitable student projects on further developing a ROMS model of the Zanzibar Channel and taking measurements in the Zanzibar Channel using an ADCP and a CTD. The presentation of these projects formed the central part of the proposal that led to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions). He then advertised the opportunity to carry out these student projects to a large group of physical oceanography students.
Professor Chris Reason (homepage)
Professor
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Advises on ROMS
Prof. Reason has developed ROMS models of the East African coastal and regional ocean and is sharing the model output and his findings generously. He has also been training Tanzanian researchers who might contribute to the Zanzibar Project in the future. These initiatives are further described in Network. Prof. Reason helped revise the proposal that led to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions) and will visit IMS in Zanzibar in 2009 when the US students will also be there.
Dr. Andrey Shcherbina (homepage)
Postdoc
University of Washington
Advises on ROMS and oceanographic measurements
Dr. Shcherbina helped revise the proposal that led to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions).
Dr. Jane Teranes
Associate Director and Lecturer, Environmental Systems Program
University of California at San Diego
Advertises the US student opportunities
Dr. Teranes offered to advertise the US student opportunities (Opportunities) to the undergraduate students in the Environmental Systems Program and to work with the Zanzibar Project to ensure that the student projects at IMS in Zanzibar would form an integral part of the students' studies in the Environmental Systems Program.
Beatrice Theiss
Applied Environmental Education Program Evaluator in training and High School Teacher
Advises on project evaluation
Mrs. Theiss is currently in training to become a certified Applied Environmental Education Program Evaluator. In this capacity, she will help regularly evaluate the performance of the US students and recommend improvements to the educational component of the Zanzibar Project.
Martin Theiss
Entrepreneur, formerly Marketing Director at Danone UK (Dannon in the US)
Advises on recruiting as well as on team building, leadership, and assessment
Mr. Theiss was instrumental in developing the organizational aspects described in the proposal leading to the NSF/OISE IRES grant (Grants and Contributions). He will also travel to Zanzibar for a week in January 2009 to help prepare for the activities of the Zanzibar Project in the summer.
Robert Thombley
Oceanographic Technician
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Advises on and helps with all technical aspects of ADCPs and CTDs
Mr. Thombley will visit IMS in Zanzibar in 2009 to help set up the ADCP and CTD for taking measurements in the Zanzibar Channel. He is fully funded by the NSF/OISE IRES Grant (Grants and Contributions).
Dr. Clinton Winant (homepage)
Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Advises on ROMS and oceanographic measurements
Dr. Winant has given advice on how best to model the Zanzibar Channel and on what oceanographic measurements are most needed for this effort. He is also contributing one of his ADCPs to the Zanzibar Project at no cost (Grants and Contributions).
Dr. James Yoder (homepage)
Vice President
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Advertises the US student opportunities
Dr. Yoder oversees the WHOI component of the Joint MIT-WHOI Program with about 150 graduate students enrolled. WHOI also has a summer program for undergraduate students with about 30 students participating each year. Dr. Yoder is advertising the US student opportunities (Opportunities) to these students.
Dr. Luis Zamudio-Lopez (homepage)
Assistant Scholar Scientist
Florida State University
Provides model output data
Dr. Zamudio-Lopez has provided model output data from his HYCOM at 1/12° resolution, which is used to force the ROMS model of the Zanzibar Channel at the boundaries (Research, section "2008").