US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Tectonic Motion of the Sinai Block, Implications for Earthquake Hazards in the Greater Cairo Area and along the Dead Sea Fault

描述：该奖项旨在支持麻省理工学院（MIT）地球、大气与行星科学系首席研究科学家Robert Reilinger博士与埃及赫尔万国家天文与地球物理研究所（NRIAG）副教授Salah M. Mahmoud博士的合作项目。这些科学家计划研究西奈板块、非洲东北部的现今运动及其对该地区地震危险的影响。他们计划使用全球定位系统（GPS）直接测量西奈板块相对于非洲和阿拉伯的运动。确定西奈地块的持续运动以及如何适应这种运动（即地块的位置和活动断层）是我们理解北非区域构造和大开罗和尼罗河三角洲人口稠密地区地震危险的基础。范围：美国PI和埃及团队在研究地中海东部的构造和地震活动方面有长期的经验。莱林格博士是一个多国项目的首席研究员，该项目涉及中东的几个国家，旨在监测该地区的板块构造。这个项目是麻省理工学院团队在中东几个国家安装GPS站的努力的延伸。麻省理工学院和NRIAG这两个机构拥有这项研究所需的互补设施和能力。该项目将涉及麻省理工学院的一名美国博士后研究员，为该人提供国际研究经验。该提案符合INT在共同感兴趣的领域支持合作研究的目标。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金项目的支持，该项目向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

0001583ReilingerDescription: This award is to support a collaborative project by Dr. Robert Reilinger, Principal research Scientist, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts and Dr. Salah M. Mahmoud, Associate Professor, the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) in Helwan, Egypt. These scientists plan to study present-day motion of the Sinai block, NE Africa and the implications for the earthquake hazards in the region. They plan to use Global Positioning System (GPS) to directly measure the motion of the Sinai block relative to Africa and Arabia. Determining the ongoing motion of the Sinai block and how this motion is accommodated (i.e. location and active faults bounding the block) is fundamental to our understanding of the regional tectonics of North Africa and earthquake hazards in the heavily populated areas of greater Cairo and the Nile Delta.Scope: The US PI and the Egyptian teams have long experience in the study of the tectonics and seismicity of the eastern Mediterranean. Dr. Reilinger is a principal researcher in a multinational effort involving several countries in the Middle East to monitor plate tectonics in the region. This project is an extension of the MIT team's effort to install GPS stations in several countries in the Middle East. The two institutions, MIT and NRIAG, have complementary facilities and capabilities needed for this research. The project will involve a US postdoctoral researcher at MIT, providing that person with an international research experience. This proposal meets the INT objective of supporting collaborative research in areas of mutual interest. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.