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

美国-埃及研讨会：美国参与 JEBEL 项目研讨会；

• 批准号: 0821257
• 负责人: Robert Stern
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Dallas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0821257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Egypt; Workshop; U.S.; Participation

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.

0821257斯特恩描述：这个奖项是为了支持美国参与一个？美国-埃及北方阿拉伯-努比亚盾项目JEBEL？研讨会，将于2008年10月在埃及沙姆沙伊赫举行。 美国的组织者是罗伯特·斯特恩博士，德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校岩石圈研究中心。 埃及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）项目由瑞典政府通过向斯德哥尔摩大学的Vicky Pease教授提供赠款资助三年。 它是2007年2月在埃及举行的规划讲习班的成果，来自8个不同国家的科学家参加了讲习班。瑞典的资助只包括瑞典、埃及和约旦参与者的研究和旅行，美国、沙特、挪威和德国科学家在各自国家获得资助。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。第一期讲习班将于2008年10月在埃及举行，第二期讲习班将于2009 - 2010年冬季在约旦举行。这两个研讨会将讨论迄今为止的研究成果，并讨论未来的研究重点。计划对西奈半岛南部的主要地质地点进行为期四天的实地考察和讨论，同时进行为期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JEBEL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？参与这一努力，这应该导致一个补充NSF的努力。智力优点：JEBEL项目重点关注四个挑战：1）通过年代学、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，外推经济区，限制红海地区的古地理重建; 3）对比新元古代造山带内的新元古代沉积物和古地理; 4）有助于理解新元古代地球环境的发展。这些结果将有助于从地质标志物中估计整个红海的总偏移量。 阿拉伯-努比亚地盾的北方部分是横贯非洲大陆的主要泛非造山带中研究最少的部分之一，这些讲习班将使国际社会关注这一地区。 两位美国资深科学家斯特恩博士和彼得约翰逊博士（合资公司）由于它们在该区域的广泛经验，它们将作出重大贡献。更广泛的影响：斯特恩博士的现任（卡迈勒·阿里）和前任（穆罕默德·阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹博士）博士生的参与将带来相当大的好处，并符合支持早期职业研究人员的目标。美国团队的参与可能会导致美国科学家参与欧盟-埃及-约旦倡议的研究工作的新伙伴关系，可能会提供有关该地区地质的重要信息。 由于Stern博士为该项目建立了一个网站：www.example.com，预计讲习班的成果和研究论文将得到广泛传播。 在讲习班上提出的意见将在这一更广泛的场所用于虚拟实地指导，并使其他调查人员能够获得这些意见。 该项目得到国际科学和工程处以及地球科学司的支助。