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Xin Li
Report of GLOMAR PhD student Xin Li about her research stay at the Department of Oceanography at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 27 October - 13 December 2007
The Department of Oceanography at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is one of the leading the departments in the world, which focuses on the physical oceanography and ocean climatology in the region south of South Africa. The Department of Geological Sciences of the UCT plays a major role in geological research in South Africa.
Due to the support of GLOMAR, I had the chance to visit these two excellent departments from 27 Oct to 13 Dec 2007. The purpose of my visit was to discuss my current results about sediment transport modelling on the gateway south of South Africa with local oceanographers and geoscientists, and therefore to improve my knowledge about model modification, model validation and model results analysis in my study region.
During my visit I had the valuable opportunity to work with Prof. Johann Lutjeharms who is one of the principal investigators of the Department of Oceanography and has a excellent understanding of the of the Agulhas Current, North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) and Antarctica Bottom Water (AABW) in my study area. He pointed out the key issues within my current work and gave me many constructive suggestions. His advice lead to new results and several new ideas for my future work.
At the UCT, I also met Dr. Pierrick Penven who is one of the leading modellers for the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS), which represent a substantial part of my PhD project. During Dr. Penven’s PhD study, he worked in the Department for a long time and built a fundamental model with ROMS in the region offshore south Africa for South Africa Experiment Project (SAFE). This model is now widely used by the students in the department on different research aspects. Since my research region is within his model domain, his experience regarding SAFE project has been very helpful for me to improve the behaviour of my model. He further showed me his latest model results, so I could compare them with my own model results. I was very delighted that both models agreed very well in some of the interesting hydrodynamic features.
I also visited Prof. John Compton and Prof. Maarten de Wit in the Department of Geological Sciences. They introduced me to their geological databank and granted me full access. They also encouraged me to enlarge my research region.
Finally, I was lucky to meet Prof. Gerold Siedler at the Department of Oceanography in South Africa. He is a very famous German scientist in the field of Oceanography, and he showed also great interest in my work and gave me some useful hints.
As a matter of course, I had a lot of opportunities to communicate with the local young scientists. Some of them are working in my project area. So it was very helpful to discuss their projects with them.
I thank GLOMAR for offering me such a successful research residence. I learned a lot from the local oceanographers and geoscientists. The time in Cape Town was a milestone in my PhD project and will remain an eminent experience for my future work.
Due to the support of GLOMAR, I had the chance to visit these two excellent departments from 27 Oct to 13 Dec 2007. The purpose of my visit was to discuss my current results about sediment transport modelling on the gateway south of South Africa with local oceanographers and geoscientists, and therefore to improve my knowledge about model modification, model validation and model results analysis in my study region.
During my visit I had the valuable opportunity to work with Prof. Johann Lutjeharms who is one of the principal investigators of the Department of Oceanography and has a excellent understanding of the of the Agulhas Current, North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) and Antarctica Bottom Water (AABW) in my study area. He pointed out the key issues within my current work and gave me many constructive suggestions. His advice lead to new results and several new ideas for my future work.
At the UCT, I also met Dr. Pierrick Penven who is one of the leading modellers for the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS), which represent a substantial part of my PhD project. During Dr. Penven’s PhD study, he worked in the Department for a long time and built a fundamental model with ROMS in the region offshore south Africa for South Africa Experiment Project (SAFE). This model is now widely used by the students in the department on different research aspects. Since my research region is within his model domain, his experience regarding SAFE project has been very helpful for me to improve the behaviour of my model. He further showed me his latest model results, so I could compare them with my own model results. I was very delighted that both models agreed very well in some of the interesting hydrodynamic features.
I also visited Prof. John Compton and Prof. Maarten de Wit in the Department of Geological Sciences. They introduced me to their geological databank and granted me full access. They also encouraged me to enlarge my research region.
Finally, I was lucky to meet Prof. Gerold Siedler at the Department of Oceanography in South Africa. He is a very famous German scientist in the field of Oceanography, and he showed also great interest in my work and gave me some useful hints.
As a matter of course, I had a lot of opportunities to communicate with the local young scientists. Some of them are working in my project area. So it was very helpful to discuss their projects with them.
I thank GLOMAR for offering me such a successful research residence. I learned a lot from the local oceanographers and geoscientists. The time in Cape Town was a milestone in my PhD project and will remain an eminent experience for my future work.