US-South Asia Workshop: Future Scientific Drilling in the Indian Ocean Submarine Fans

说明：该奖项是为了支持由马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔伍兹霍尔海洋研究所Peter cliff博士、孟加拉国吉大港大学Shahidul Islam博士、印度Kharagpur印度理工学院Anil Gupta博士和巴基斯坦卡拉奇国家海洋研究所Asif Inam博士组织的研讨会。计划研讨会“印度洋扇系统钻探IODP研讨会，2003年7月23日至25日，科罗拉多大学博尔德分校”由联合海洋学机构（JOI）和印度洋海洋事务合作组织（IOMAC）赞助。具体来说，该奖项支持来自南亚国家的八名科学家前往参加讲习班，并帮助规划该领域未来的合作研究。这些科学家的参与很可能导致美国科学家与孟加拉国、印度、巴基斯坦和斯里兰卡这四个国家的科学家的合作。范围：固体地球与大气和海洋之间的相互作用目前只是大致了解，是21世纪科学探索的一个主要领域。美国国家科学基金会资助的综合海洋钻探计划（IODP）强调，探索造山活动与气候变化之间的关系是未来作业的主要目标。特别是，喜马拉雅和西藏的生长及其对南亚气候的影响被认为是最近地质历史中气候-构造相互作用的主要例子。此外，它们已经成为几个海洋钻探计划（ODP）和IODP提案的主题，用于钻探印度河和孟加拉扇。这些扇合在一起记录了亚洲新生代的大部分侵蚀，如果要量化气候、构造和侵蚀之间的关系，就必须考虑到这些扇。由于它们不同的流域，每个扇都包含不同的侵蚀和气候变化记录，如果要了解整个系统的行为，就必须破译每一个记录。通过汇集海洋和陆基地球、海洋和大气科学家的核心团体，并确定关键的科学目标，讲习班的目的是为该地区的科学勘探制定连贯的钻探战略。这次会议不仅将为最后的钻探奠定基础，而且还将为钻探前在北印度洋进行的相关海洋和地球物理工作奠定基础。南亚科学家参加规划讲习班对于加强科学和与该社区建立新的工作关系是很重要的。当地合作对于该地区陆上和海上的钻井前工作都很重要。此外，由于希望在靠近海岸和孟加拉湾内进行钻探，当地的科学参与对于钻探和其他有关的海洋学工作将是必不可少的。

Clift0322585Description: This award is to support a workshop organized by Dr. Peter Clift, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Dr. Shahidul Islam, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, Dr. Anil Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and Dr. Asif Inam, National Institute of Oceanography, Karachi, Pakistan. The planning workshop "An IODP Workshop for Drilling of the Indian Ocean Fan Systems, 23-25th July 2003- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado" is sponsored by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) and the Indian Ocean Marine Affairs Cooperation (IOMAC). Specifically the award supports the travel of eight scientists from south Asian countries to attend the workshop and help in planning future cooperative research in that area. The participation of these scientists is likely to lead to collaboration involving the U.S. scientists with scientists from the four countries of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Scope: The interactions between the solid earth and the atmosphere and oceans are presently only understood in outline and represent a major field for scientific exploration in the 21st Century. Exploring the relationships between mountain building and climate change has been highlighted as a primary objective for future operations by the NSF funded Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). In particular, the growth of the Himalayas and Tibet and their effects on the climate of South Asia are recognized as the prime examples of climate-tectonic interactions in the recent geologic past. Moreover, they have been the subject of several Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and IODP proposals for drilling the Indus and Bengal Fans. Together these fans record most of the Cenozoic erosion in Asia and must be accounted for if the relationships between climate, tectonics and erosion are to be quantified. Because of their different drainage basins each fan contains a different record of erosion and climate change each of which must be deciphered if the behavior of the entire system is to be understood. By bringing together a core community of both marine and land-based earth, ocean, and atmospheric scientists and identifying the key scientific objectives, the aim of the workshop is to develop a coherent drilling strategy for scientific exploration in the region. This meeting will lay the groundwork not only for the final drilling but also for related oceanographic and geophysical work in the northern Indian Ocean prior to drilling. The participation of South Asian scientists in the planning workshop is important to enhance the science, and to establish new working relationships with that community. Local collaboration is important to pre-drilling work in the region both onshore and offshore. Moreover, because of the desire to drill close to the coasts and within the Bay of Bengal, local scientific involvement will be essential for drilling and other related oceanographic work.