Continued U.S.-New Zealand Cooperative Effort on the Canterbury Ring Laser

该奖项支持博士之间的持续合作研究。 汉斯河俄克拉荷马州州立大学的比尔杰和G. E.斯特曼 基督城的坎特伯雷大学，以完成 建造和实现平面操作，1平方米高， 分辨率环形激光器和一个稍小的环的原型 (898 mm X 837 mm），并使用 测量地震作用等地球物理效应的仪器 和地球潮汐 这项合作始于1989年，合同号为INT 89-00033， 是比尔格博士实验技能的有效结合 斯特德曼博士对 使用环形激光器测量地球物理，原子光谱， 广义相对论效应。 感测和记录地球 潮汐和地震活动与环形激光是新颖的， 大大推进对这些文书的评估， 应用. 此外，环形激光器的位置应允许 更精确地测量附近的地震活动， 太平洋板块-印度板块边界。

This award supports continued cooperative research between Dr. Hans R. Bilger of Oklahoma State University and Dr. G.E. Stedman of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, to complete construction and attain operation of a plane, square 1 m2 high- resolution ringlaser and of a prototype of a slightly smaller ring (898 mm X 837 mm) at the University of Canterbury, and to use the instrument to measure geophysical effects such as seismic action and earth tides. The collaboration, begun in 1989 under award number INT 89-00033, is a productive blend of the experimental skills of Dr. Bilger with the more theoretical interests of Dr. Stedman regarding the use of ringlasers to measure geophysical, atomic spectroscopic, and general relativistic effects. Sensing and recording earth tides and seismic activity with a ringlaser is novel, and should significantly advance assessment of the instrument to these applications. In addition, the site of the ringlaser should allow more exact measurement of seismic activities from the nearby, very active, Pacific Plate-Indian Plate boundary.