I have forwarded your comment directly to Verena, so hopefully she will see it soon and get back to you.

I would be very interested in learning more about your work myself. I am not a geologist nor an oceanographer, my training was in physics. Do you by any chance have any presentations to non-specialists lying around on the web that I might look at? Thanks in advance!

Just by chance I found your presentation on the Coral Reefs of the Maldives. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4683806435866042231#. I really enjoyed it. Great job.

I am not a biologist but a marine geologist/paleoceanographer. I have been working with my students in the long term evolution of the Maldives for the 25 years. You might might seen some of our articles.

I am heading to the Maldives in about ten days to work in different projecs with the government. I will be in Male from May 28 until June 10. If by any chance you were passing by Male at the same time, i would like to meet you or at least it would be great to keep contact with you. This fall, I am teaching a seminar at Rice on Reefs and Global Change and would like to include a project for my students on the Maldives reefs and climate change. I am sure your expertise would help us.

Kind regards from Houston,

Andre Droxler
Dr. André W. Droxler
Professor
Dept. of Earth Science MS-126
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX, 77251-1892

Phone # Office 713 348 4885
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E-mail andre@rice.edu

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someone from the Maldives Science Society found my blog, I saw the referrer-link in my logfiles. I followed it back, and found a link to your presentation.

Keep up the good work!
Tony,

Cheers!

Verena