US-Lebanon Planning Visit: Initiation of Collaborative Research on Active Tectonics, Seismology and Earthquake Hazard Assessment

产品描述：该奖项是为了支持三名美国科学家计划访问黎巴嫩和叙利亚，进行初步的地质实地工作，并组织一个项目，在活动构造，地震学和地震危险评估的合作研究。 美国首席研究员是康奈尔大学大陆研究所的Muawai Barazangi博士。 合作者包括贝鲁特美国大学地质系的Kamal克海尔博士和黎巴嫩国家科学研究理事会国家地球物理中心主任Charles Tabet博士。 美国科学家还计划利用这次机会参加1998年11月在贝鲁特举行的第四届中东地质国际会议。 黎巴嫩位于死海断层系统沿着的一个关键区域，在该区域，区域应变通过断层系统中的大弯曲在两个长断层段之间转移。 这项拟议中的研究将有助于科学家了解一个活跃的大陆转换断层的过程，该断层在许多方面与加州南部的圣安德烈亚斯断层系统相似。 适用范围： 这次计划访问将帮助美国和黎巴嫩科学家准备在一个具有科学重要性的领域进行合作研究的建议。 私家侦探在中东和北非的地震调查领域有着出色的资历。 AUB遵循美国的学术和研究模式，享有良好的声誉，因此与其科学家的合作可能会非常富有成效。 与私家侦探同行的两人之一。是一位刚获得博士学位的年轻科学家。另一个是正在攻读博士学位的研究生。 这两个人将有机会获得富有成效的国际科学经验。

Description: This award is to support a planning visit by three US scientists to Lebanon and Syria to conduct preliminary geological field work and to organize a program for a collaborative research on active tectonics, seismology, and earthquake hazard assessment. The US principal investigator is Dr. Muawai Barazangi, of the Institute of the Study of the Continents at Cornell University. The collaborators include Dr. Kamal Khair, Geology Department of the American University of Beirut (AUB), and Dr. Charles Tabet, Director of the National Center for Geophysics of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (NCSR). The US scientists also plan to use this occasion to attend the 4th International Conference on the Geology of the Middle East, to be held in Beirut in November 1998. Lebanon occupies a critical area along the Dead Sea fault system in which regional strain is transferred between two long fault segments by a large bend in the fault system. The proposed study will help scientists to understand the processes of an active, continental transform fault, which is similar in many ways to the San Andreas fault system in southern California. Scope: This planning visit will help the US and Lebanese scientists prepare proposals for collaborative research in an area that is scientifically important. The P.I. has excellent credentials in the area of seismological investigations in the Middle East and North Africa. The AUB, which follows the American academic and research models, has a good reputation, and thus the collaboration with its scientists would likely be quite productive. One of the two persons travelling with the P.I. is a junior scientist who recently received the Ph.D. degree, and the other is a graduate student working on his Ph.D. These two will have an opportunity for a productive international scientific experience.