U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: Groundwater Resources in Sinai

0514307 Sultan描述：该项目支持位于密歇根州卡拉马祖的西密歇根大学地质系的Mohamed苏丹博士和位于埃及开罗的开罗大学的Ahmad Wagdy博士之间的合作研究。 他们计划制定方法来定位和评估西奈半岛的可再生地下水资源。 这两个项目研究所目前由联合国开发计划署/全球环境基金供资，以开发可靠的技术，评估埃及东部沙漠可再生地下水资源的范围，并评估地下水的来源及其范围。在这个项目中，他们计划在所获得的专业知识的基础上，完善新开发的方法，以定位和评估西奈半岛的可再生地下水资源。智力优势：PI将调查西奈半岛的两个主要潜在水资源：（一）发生在山区的零星降水，最终存在于高度断裂的基底水库中，或作为地表径流和地下水流，这些地下水中的一部分最终存在于主要山谷的冲积含水层中;（B）努比亚含水层的地下水通过深层次垂直断层输送，最终存在于近地表冲积含水层中。他们将采用综合方法，包括使用同位素技术（氧、氢）、遥感、实地、气象和地表径流研究，以确定有关水库的位置，并评估其地下水潜力。更广泛的影响：这项研究预计将产生一个可复制的模型，可应用于邻近的中东和撒哈拉国家以及世界上其他干旱和超干旱地区，包括美国西南部，并有助于减少对现有水供应及其所支持的生态系统的压力。 该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

0514307SultanDescription: This project supports a collaborative research between Dr. Mohamed Sultan, Department of Geology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan and Dr. Ahmad Wagdy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. They plan to develop methodologies to locate and assess the renewable groundwater resources in Sinai. The two PIs are currently funded by the United Nations Development Program / GEF to develop reliable techniques for evaluating the extent of renewable ground water resources in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, and to evaluate the source(s) of the groundwater, and its extent. In this project they plan to build on the acquired expertise and to refine the newly developed methodologies to locate and assess the renewable groundwater resources in Sinai.Intellectual Merits: The PIs will investigate two main potential water resources in Sinai: (a) sporadic precipitation that occurs over mountainous areas that ultimately reside within highly fractured basement reservoirs or as surface runoff and as subsurface groundwater flow and which ultimately reside in the alluvial aquifers flooring the main valleys, and (b) Nubian aquifer groundwater channeled through deep-seated sub-vertical faults and ultimately residing in near-surface alluvial aquifers. They will apply integrated methodologies involving the use of isotopic techniques (O, H), remote sensing, field, meteorologic, and surface runoff studies to locate reservoirs in question and to assess their groundwater potentiality. Broader Impacts: This research is expected to produce a replicable model that could be applied in neighboring Middle Eastern and Saharan countries and other arid and hyper arid parts of the world, including in the southwestern part of the U.S.A., and could assist in decreasing the pressures on the existing water supplies and the ecosystems they support. 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.