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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Preliminary Participant Meeting. Timecode In: 00:13:31. Timecode out: 01:13:12. Notes: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami effects on Sri Lanka; Prithiviraj Fernando, Sanjayan Muthulingam, Ravi Corea, and other unidentified people. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Director General, Wildlife Conservation. Timecode In: 01:14:32. Timecode out: 01:24:32. Notes: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Sanjayan Muthulingam. Timecode In: 01:28:17. Timecode out: 01:40:27. Notes: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami; Reconstruction and conservation. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS Stereo. NPR/NGS DAT #12 RADIO EXPEDITIONS Sri Lanka January 29, 2005 San = Sanjayan Muthulingam PF = Prithiviraj "Pruthu" Fernando Ravi = Ravi Corea EA = Elizabeth Arnold MS = Michael Schweppe 4:34 ambience of meeting during break (tea) 5:00 good everyone talking at once, no one too distinct. Very good¿6:06.. (for the first time all gathered to share information..)..energy wanes at 8:00 picks up again 11:00 12:20 still chatting 12:31 clapping of hands to get meeting to start (not real obvious) 13:18 chair pull 13:32 Ravi ..i would like to thank blah blah..i want to kind of say that the tsunami is really two things, an incredible natural disaster (off mic) but it's also an incredible historic event and important for us to record everything about it..to leave a good comprehensive reference for the future." * (maybe) (can hear generator faintly in bg) SJ presentation at meeting 19:56 the entire time we spent on this took one week, so this is like super rapid assessment so just keep that in mind as we go through this and the purpose was to cover as much ground as possible as opposed to being detailed in any one place so this committee and others can decide where to put resources in terms of long range studies etc. 20:30 dive sites..Hikkaduwa, Unuwatunne, Mirrisssa, Pollhena (looking for live coral breakage, debris and percentage of live coral, visibility) 24:14 I was actually surprised, if I had to summarize this, I was actually surprised on these reefs how little impact I saw of the tsunami, now I've heard it's different if you go to the east coast, but on these reefs, not that much direct impact¿.the big coral breakages..so I don't think I would classify that as hugely problematic. 25:06 truth of the matter there wasn't much live coral (like 20%) 28:40 so this is a patch of very healthy live coral¿ (narrating slides) 41:00 the purpose of this was to quickly give this committee and ability to prioritize quickly on a very large and difficult to reach coast. (long term monitoring plan 41:53 so we were going to fly 80 k of coastline from bundula to aconda. Which turned out to be 280 k of flying because it's like this (on heli) map, to track major areas of incursion¿ 100 to 150 meter altitude, tracking it on gps recorder (500 feet) immediate removal of human debris, prickly pear cactus..long term monitoring of key areas.. 50:40 so this red dot will tell you where the helicopter went¿ 54:21 he's flying the debris line as best he can and when we see inundation, take a way point, correspond and then we follow as best we can on inside perimeter..and then you can see and he comes back and rejoins his original track, and I feel confident,it will be an underestimate..ideally what we now should do is take areas in block one that you have walked and you can caluate error and extrapolate it up coast and figure out how much area has been inundated in park.. for this area..just these areas where you have grass or marsh or forest..4,100 hectares. Between Yala to the northern border.. Primarily terrestrial habitats at minimum 4,100 hectares.. 58:16 (gov guy) can we prioritize now? Yes that's up to your experts.. 59:21 start of disintegration of meeting..asking q... (Notes truncated)
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