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

Clift0322585描述：该奖项旨在支持由马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔伍兹霍尔海洋研究所彼得·克利夫特博士、孟加拉国吉大港大学沙希杜尔·伊斯拉姆博士、印度哈拉格普尔印度理工学院阿尼尔·古普塔博士和巴基斯坦卡拉奇国家海洋研究所阿西夫·伊纳姆博士组织的研讨会。规划讲习班“2003年7月23-25日在科罗拉多科罗拉多大学举办的印度洋风扇系统钻探IODP讲习班”由联合海洋研究所(JOI)和印度洋海洋事务合作(IOMAC)赞助。具体而言，该奖项资助来自南亚国家的8名科学家参加讲习班，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进行合作。范围：固体地球与大气和海洋之间的相互作用目前只是概括性的了解，是21世纪科学探索的一个主要领域。探索造山和气候变化之间的关系已被强调为NSF资助的综合海洋钻探计划(IODP)未来行动的主要目标。特别是，喜马拉雅山脉和西藏的生长及其对南亚气候的影响被认为是近代地质历史中气候-构造相互作用的主要例子。此外，它们一直是几个大洋钻探计划(ODP)和IODP关于钻探印度河和孟加拉扇的建议的主题。这些扇体共同记录了亚洲新生代侵蚀的大部分，如果要量化气候、构造和侵蚀之间的关系，就必须对它们进行解释。由于它们的流域不同，每个扇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，必须破译每一个记录。通过将海洋和陆基地球、海洋和大气科学家的核心群体聚集在一起，并确定关键的科学目标，讲习班的目的是为该区域的科学探索制定协调一致的钻探战略。这次会议不仅将为最后的钻探工作奠定基础，也将为钻探前北印度洋的相关海洋学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十分重要。当地合作对该地区陆上和海上的钻探前工作都很重要。此外，由于希望在海岸附近和孟加拉湾内进行钻探，当地的科学参与对于钻探和其他相关的海洋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.