US-Egypt Workshop: U.S. Participation in Project JEBEL Workshop; Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 2008

0821257 SternDescription：该奖项是为了支持美国参加将于2008年10月在埃及沙姆沙伊赫举行的关于北阿拉伯-努比亚盾牌-杰贝勒项目的美埃研讨会。美国组织者是达拉斯德克萨斯大学岩石圈研究中心的罗伯特·斯特恩博士。埃及的组织者是埃及开罗国家研究中心的Osama Kassem博士。JEBEL(约旦和埃及地下室演化)项目由瑞典政府资助，为期三年，资助对象是斯德哥尔摩大学的维基·皮斯教授。这是2007年2月在埃及举办的一次规划讲习班的结果，来自8个不同国家的科学家参加了这次讲习班。瑞典的资助仅包括瑞典、埃及和约旦参与者的研究和旅行，美国、沙特、挪威和德国的科学家在各自的国家获得资金。该奖项将支持四名美国科学家参加这一新的国际研究工作的两个实地研究和规划研讨会。第一次讲习班将于2008年10月在埃及举行，第二次讲习班将于2009-2010年冬季在约旦举行。这两个讲习班将讨论迄今的研究成果，并讨论未来的研究优先事项。计划对西奈半岛南部的关键地质地点进行为期四天的实地考察和讨论，同时进行一天的研究报告和规划。由于美国的参与是2007年研讨会成功的关键，也将是杰贝尔项目成功的重要因素，瑞典和美国双方都希望继续美国科学家的工作？参与这一努力，这应该导致国家科学基金会的补充努力。学术价值：Jebel项目侧重于四个挑战：1)通过地质年代学、地球化学、地层学和构造研究，了解约旦、埃及东部沙漠(EDE)，特别是中部EDE的新元古代演化；2)促进红海地区的地质对比，推断经济区，并限制红海地区的古地理重建；3)将新元古代地体与新元古代造山带内的古地理相关联；以及4)有助于了解新元古代地球环境的发展。这些结果将有助于估计红海与地质标志之间的总偏移量。阿拉伯-努比亚盾北部是主要的泛非造山带中研究最少的部分之一，该造山带延伸至整个非洲大陆，这些讲习班将把国际注意力集中在该地区。两位美国资深科学家，斯特恩博士和彼得·约翰逊博士(JV Associates Ltd.)将有重大投入，因为他们在该地区拥有丰富的经验。更广泛的影响：斯特恩博士的现任博士生(Kamal Ali)和曾经的博士生(Mohamed Abdelsalam博士)的参与将会带来相当大的好处，并达到支持早期研究人员的目标。美国团队的参与可能会导致美国科学家参与正在开发的欧盟-埃及-约旦倡议的研究工作中建立新的合作伙伴关系，可能提供关于该地区地质的重要信息。研讨会和研究论文的结果预计将广泛传播，因为斯特恩博士已经为这个项目建立了一个网站：http://www.utdallas.edu/~rjstern/egypt/.讲习班上的观察结果将用于这一更广泛的虚拟实地指导场所，并使其他调查人员能够接触到观察结果。该项目得到了国际科学和工程办公室和地球科学司的支持。

0821257 SternDescription: This award is to support U.S. Participation in a ?US-Egypt Workshop on Northern Arabian-Nubia Shield-Project JEBEL?, to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in October 2008. The US organizer is Dr. Robert Stern, Center for Lithospheric Studies, University of Texas at Dallas. The Egyptian organizer is Dr. Osama Kassem, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt. The project JEBEL (Jordanian and Egyptian Basement EvoLution) is funded for three years by the Swedish government through a grant to Prof. Vicky Pease of Stockholm University. It resulted from a Planning Workshop held in Egypt in February 2007, and attended by scientists from 8 different countries. The Swedish grant covers research and travel by Swedish, Egyptian, and Jordanian participants only, with U.S, Saudi, Norwegian, and German scientists to secure funding in their respective countries. This award will support the participation of four U.S. scientists in two field research and planning workshops for this new international research effort. The first workshop will be held in October 2008 in Egypt and the second to be held in Jordan in winter 2009-2010. Both workshops will discuss results of research to date and discuss future research priorities. Four days of field trips to key geologic localities in the southern Sinai and discussions are planned, in tandem with a day of research presentations and planning. Because US participation was key to the success of the 2007 workshop, and will be important for success of Project JEBEL, both the Swedes and the U.S. sides want to continue the US scientists? participation in this effort, which should lead to a complementary NSF effort. Intellectual merit: Project JEBEL focuses on four challenges: 1) understanding the Neoproterozoic evolution of Jordan, the Eastern Desert of Egypt (EDE), and in particular the central EDE, via geochronological, geochemical, stratigraphic, and structural studies; 2) facilitating geological correlations across the Red Sea, extrapolation of economic zones, and constraining palinspastic reconstructions of the Red Sea region; 3) correlating Neoproterozoic terranes and paleogeography within the Neoproterozoic orogen; and 4) contributing to understanding the development of the Neoproterozoic Earth environment. The results will be useful for estimating total offsets across the Red Sea from geologic markers. The northern part of the Arabian-Nubian Shield is one of the least studied parts of the major Pan-African Orogen that extends the full length of the African continent, and these workshops will focus international attention on the area. The two U.S. senior scientists, Dr. Stern and Dr. Peter Johnson (of JV Associates Ltd.) will have major inputs because of their extensive experiences in the region. Broader impacts: The involvement of both a current (Kamal Ali) and a former (Dr Mohamed Abdelsalam) PhD students of Dr. Stern will be of considerable benefit, and meets the goal of supporting early-career researchers. The involvement of the US team will potentially lead to new partnerships in research effort involving US scientists in a developing EU-Egypt-Jordan initiative, potentially providing important information on the geology of this region. The results from the workshops and research papers are expected to be widely disseminated, as Dr Stern has set-up a website for this project: http://www.utdallas.edu/~rjstern/egypt/. The observations made in the workshops will be used in this wider venue for virtual field guides and giving other investigators access to the observations. This project is being supported by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Earth Sciences.