U.S.-Costa Rica Workshop on the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Seismogenic Zone

9730222银牌本美洲计划奖将资助来自美国的两名初级科学家和一名研究生以及来自尼加拉瓜的四名科学家参加关于哥斯达黎加和尼加拉瓜地震孕育区的成像和建模过程的研讨会的旅费和相关费用。该讲习班由加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的Eli Silver博士与中美洲的专家合作组织，将于1997年12月在旧金山举行。前三次国际研讨会建议哥斯达黎加-尼加拉瓜作为重点研究俯冲环境中地震孕育区机制的两个最优先区域之一。根据这一建议，组织了讲习班，目的是更好地确定问题的性质，确定潜在科学研究的优先次序，并组织国际小组侧重于孕震区结构和行为的不同方面。国际上对地震孕育区特别是中美洲有很大的兴趣，这是准备向活跃的地震孕育区进行深层立管钻探的第一步。***

9730222 Silver This Americas Program award will support travel and related expenses for two junior scientists and one graduate student from US, and four scientists from Nicaragua, to participate in a workshop on imaging and modeling the processes occurring on the seismogenic zone of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The workshop, organized by Dr. Eli Silver, University of California, Santa Cruz, in cooperation with experts from Central America, will take place in San Francisco in December, 1997. Three previous international workshops have recommended Costa Rica-Nicaragua as one of two highest priority regions for focused study on the mechanics of the seismogenic zone in subduction environments. Following that recommendation, the workshop was organized with the goal to better define the nature of the problem, prioritize potential scientific studies, and organize international teams to focus on different aspects of the structure and behavior of the seismogenic zone. There is great international interest in the seismogenic zone and specifically in Central America, and this is a first step in the preparation for deep riser drilling into an active seismogenic zone. ***