Science Planning Workshop for Research Opportunities in the Republic of Mongolia

蒙古共和国最近的政治变化使得在现代历史上第一次有可能开始建立长期合作计划，以研究亚洲这一重要地区的各种重要科学问题。为了启动这一进程，美国国家科学基金会要求私人投资机构为美国科学家组织一个计划研讨会，以探索和发展与蒙古科学家合作研究的机会。研讨会的目的是为包括政府和非政府机构在内的更广泛的美国科学界提供一个协调的科学计划，以便将来在蒙古共和国进行大规模和小规模的科学调查。讲习班将讨论的几个重要问题包括：蒙古北部霍夫斯戈尔和达哈德地格拉本地区湖泊的生物地方性水平以及连接霍夫斯戈尔湖和贝加尔湖的蒙古北部色楞嘎河的生物区系之间的关系；这些湖泊系统及其周围构造地形与喜马拉雅造山运动、青藏高原隆升和贝加尔湖裂谷区的恢复（包括贝加尔湖的演化和亚洲气候状况）的构造和构造关系；与蒙古大地震相关的地表破裂和变形，以了解大陆内造山过程。* * *

9530886 Williams Recent political changes in the Republic of Mongolia make it possible for the first time in modern history to begin the establishment of long-term cooperative programs to study a wide variety of important scientific problems in this important region of Asia. In order to begin this process, NSF requested the P.I.s to organize a Planning Workshop for American scientists to explore and develop opportunities for cooperative research with Mongolian scientists. The purpose of the workshop is to provide the broader U.S. scientific community, including governmental and non- governmental agencies, with a coordinated science plan for future large and small scale scientific investigations in the Republic of Mongolia. Several important questions to be addressed by the workshop include: o the level of biological endemism in lakes of the Hovsgol and Darhad Grabens of northern Mongolia and the relationships between the biota of the Selenga River in northern Mongolia which connects Hovsgol Nuur with Lake Baikal; o the tectonic and structural relationship of these lake systems and surrounding tectonic terrains to the Himalayan orogeny, the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the reactivation of the Baikal Rift Zone including the evolution of Lake Baikal and the climatic regime of Asia; o the surface ruptures and deformation associated with great earthquakes in Mongolia to understand the process of intracontinental mountain building. ***