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

这个美洲项目的奖金将用于资助两名来自美国的初级科学家和一名研究生，以及四名来自尼加拉瓜的科学家参加一个关于哥斯达黎加和尼加拉瓜发震区过程成像和建模的研讨会的旅费和相关费用。该讲习班将于1997年12月在旧金山举行，由圣克鲁斯加利福尼亚大学Eli Silver博士与中美洲专家合作组织。以前的三个国际研讨会建议将哥斯达黎加-尼加拉瓜作为两个最优先的区域之一，集中研究俯冲环境中发震带的力学。根据这一建议，组织了研讨会，目的是更好地确定问题的性质，优先考虑潜在的科学研究，并组织国际团队关注发震带的结构和行为的不同方面。国际上对发震区，特别是中美洲的发震区有很大的兴趣，这是准备在活跃的发震区钻深立管的第一步。* * *

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. ***