I would like to hear from anybody, who has an access to fish samples from Zanzibar. Interested in collaboration to do research on fishes of this island. I have several research ideas to apply on its fish fauna.
I am interested. Can you give me more details about the sampling and funding
Dear Azza
Many thanks for your email and for your intention to do researches with me.
I am sorry I did not make clear in my post that I need people already living in Zanzibar for collaboration so we can use fishes from there.
It seems that you living in Egypt and obviously it not possible for you to get access to fishes of Zanzibar.
This is will not stop our collaboration. I have several research ideas that I would like to apply on fishes of Egypt. I already have published some papers on fishes of Egypt, but there are still more ideas to do.
I am a fish taxonomist and interested in fish morphology.
I would like to work on the morphology of the otolith of fishes of Egypt and produce an atlas. Do you think you can work in this line?
I am looking forward to hearing from you so we can discuss further the possibility of collaboration.
Please write to me at my email address
Dear Laith,
we have a long standing research collaboration with the IMS on Zanzibar. I can name you scientists from there. However, right now I am in the field in Indonesia. CAn you please remind me again in one week ?
Regards
Andreas
Dear Andreas
many thanks for your intention to assist my study on fishes of Zanzibar.
I shall in contact in a week time.
Regards
Laith A. Jawad
Dear Laith,
I have no contact with Zanzibar fishes but I read about your idea of producing an atlas on otoliths morphology. I have experience working with otoliths on tropical fishes from the Caribbean Sea. At the moment I am working on a project comparing otoliths and cleithra for age and growth studies of a commercial grunt (Haemulon steindachnery). I'm looking for an opportunity to do a PhD and your subject interests me. Let me know if I can be helpful and maybe we can work together.
Regards,
Misael D. Morales
Dear Misael
Many thanks for your contact.
First of all, where are you based?
Certainly, we can collaborate on otolith studies since you have an access to otolith samples.
At the moment and since you have otolith from the commercial grunt, then we can start describing the morphology of the surface of this otolith. For such a study, we need to have 30 pairs of otolith taken from fish specimens of different sizes. Size groups should be reasonably separated.
If you access to otolith of more species, then we can plan a bigger project. Also, we can describe the scales of the fishes if you are interested.
Do you have access to Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)?
Please write to me at my email address:
Laith A. Jawad
Auckland
new Zealand
Dear Laith A. Jawad,
I am a PhD Student at Stockholm University (Sweden) in a bilateral programme with the Institute of Marine Sciences (Zanzibar) and a researcher at Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI) based in Dar es Salaam. I am currently in Zanzibar at the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) and would like to collaborate with you on fishes of Zanzibar.
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