Travel Award for Herbert Windom to the USSR

这项建议将资助苏联符拉迪沃斯托克科学院远东科学中心太平洋海洋研究所的Evgueny Shumilin博士和Nikolay A. Goryachev博士对位于佐治亚州萨凡纳的Skidaway海洋学研究所进行为期两周的项目发展访问。访问的目的是制定一个关于河流向海洋系统运输的合作研究计划，并协助分析从共同感兴趣的湄公河河口采集的样本。该项目通过使美国和苏联的主要研究人员在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在共同感兴趣和有能力的基础科学研究领域结合互补的努力和能力，实现了推进科学知识的计划目标。

This proposal will fund the project development visits of Dr. Evgueny Shumilin and Nikolay A. Goryachev, Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Science Center, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, USSR, to Skidaway Institute of Oceanography at Savannah, Georgia for two weeks. The purpose of the visits is to develop a cooperative research program on riverine transport to ocean systems and to assist in the analysis of samples collected from the Mekong River estuary, an area of common interest. 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.