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

描述：该项目支持密歇根卡拉马祖西密歇根大学地质学系Mohamed Sultan博士和埃及开罗大学Ahmad Wagdy博士之间的合作研究。他们计划开发方法来定位和评估西奈半岛的可再生地下水资源。这两项指标目前由联合国开发计划署/全球环境基金资助，以开发可靠的技术来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(S)及其范围。在这个项目中，他们计划在已有专业知识的基础上，改进新开发的方法，以定位和评估西奈半岛的可再生地下水资源。智力优势：和平倡议将调查西奈半岛的两种主要潜在水资源：(A)山区上空零星的降水，这些降水最终存在于裂隙程度极高的地下室水库内，或作为地表径流或地下水流动，最终存在于主要山谷底部的冲积含水层中；(B)努比亚含水层地下水，经深埋次垂直断层排泄，最终存在于近地表冲积含水层。他们将应用包括使用同位素技术(O，H)、遥感、野外、气象和地表径流研究的综合方法来确定有问题的水库的位置，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式，可应用于邻近的中东和撒哈拉国家以及世界其他干旱和极度干旱地区，包括美国西南部，并可能有助于减轻现有供水及其支持的生态系统面临的压力。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金计划的支持，该计划为两国的科学家和工程师提供资助，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.