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

9730222银 该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哥斯达黎加和尼加拉瓜孕震区过程成像和建模研讨会的差旅费和相关费用。 该讲习班由圣克鲁斯的加州大学Eli银博士与中美洲的专家合作组织，将于1997年12月在旧金山弗朗西斯科举行。 前三次国际讲习班都建议哥斯达黎加-尼加拉瓜作为两个最优先区域之一，重点研究俯冲环境中地震孕育带的力学。 根据这一建议，组织了这次研讨会，目的是更好地确定问题的性质，优先考虑潜在的科学研究，并组织国际团队专注于孕震区结构和行为的不同方面。 国际上对孕震区，特别是中美洲有很大的兴趣，这是准备在活跃的孕震区钻深水立管的第一步。 ***

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. ***