Exploratory Visit to Yakut Science Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, to Discuss Joint Research on Tectonicsof Northeast Siberia

这个旅行奖的目的是为了让三位研究极端北部地区构造的美国专家——密歇根州立大学的藤田和也博士和加州大学的科学家。阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校的约翰·n·戴维斯和大卫·b·斯通于1990年7月访问苏联，以确定在西伯利亚东北部进行构造裂谷和变形过程的长期美苏合作研究的可行性。位于雅库茨克的苏联科学院西伯利亚分院地质研究所（雅库特分院）是苏联的主要研究机构，该机构已安排美国考古队到偏远的英迪吉尔卡河沿岸的一个潜在研究地点进行实地考察。除了提供访问以前无法进入的研究地点的机会之外，这项研究还可以获得地震学和古地磁数据，这些数据对于支持或推翻目前北极构造演化的模型是非常宝贵的。该项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和苏联的主要研究人员能够在基础科学研究领域的共同兴趣和能力方面结合互补的努力和能力平等、互惠、互利的基础。

The purpose of this travel award is to allow three American specialists in the tectonics of extreme northern regions - Dr. Kazuya Fujita of Michigan State University and Drs. John N. Davies and David B. Stone of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks - to visit the U.S.S.R. in July 1990 to determine the feasibility of conducting long-term U.S.-U.S.S.R. coopera- tive research on tectonic rifting and deformational processes in northeastern Siberia. The lead Soviet institution, the Institute of Geology of the Siberian Division (Yakut Branch) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Yakutsk, has arranged for the American team to make a field trip to one of the potential research sites along the remote Indigirka river. In addition to offering the opportunity of visiting previously inaccessible research sites, this study could result in seismological and paleomagnetic data that could be invaluable in supporting or invalidating current models of the tectonic evolution of the Arctic. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.