Support for U.S. Delegation to Annual Meetings of the International Society for Rock Mechanics

该奖项是对美国岩石力学协会基金会(ARMA/F)的国际旅行赠款，以支持出席2009年和2010年国际岩石力学学会(ISRM)理事会会议和研讨会的美国代表。2009年和2010年的美国代表是ARMA和ARMA/F的执行主任Peter Smeallie。2010年，代表团将扩大到包括2009年将担任ISRM主席的Francois Heuze博士。Hueze博士2010年的旅行费用将由美国岩石力学协会的一笔捐款抵消。斯麦利先生在ISRM理事会任职，代表美国岩石机械界的利益。美国代表团将酌情出席2009年在香港和2010年在印度新德里举行的ISRM理事会和委员会会议。“与贸易有关的知识产权协议”的学术价值是通过就国际地下研究实验室、放射性废物处理、岩石测试方法、地球物理在岩石力学中的应用以及采矿后岩石力学等目前由ISRM处理的重要问题提供国际视角，从而加强美国的地球工程和岩石力学。ISRM会议还将有机会在拟建的深部地下科学与工程实验室(DUSEL)激发国际对岩石力学研究实验的兴趣，并向国际岩石力学界通报DUSEL的进展和计划。这一奖项的更广泛影响超出了地球工程界和岩石力学界。通过国际社会促进的合作联盟，美国参与ISRM的活动对国家重要问题有直接影响。这些领域包括资源勘探和生产、国家安全问题、环境考虑以及通过隧道挖掘和挖掘技术的进步而建立的民用基础设施系统。

This award is for an international travel grant to the American Rock Mechanics Association Foundation (ARMA/F) to support the U.S. delegate to the 2009 and 2010 International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) Council meetings and symposia. For 2009 and 2010, the U.S. delegate is Peter Smeallie, the executive director of ARMA and the ARMA/F. In 2010, the delegation will be expanded to include Dr. Francois Heuze, who in 2009 will stand for President of the ISRM. Dr. Hueze's travel expenses in 2010 will be offset by a contribution by the American Rock Mechanics Association. Mr. Smeallie serves on the ISRM Council and represents the interests of the U.S. rock mechanics community. The U.S. delegate will attend the ISRM Council and Commissionmeetings as appropriate in Hong Kong in 2009 and in New Delhi, India, in 2010. The intellectual merit of the trips is to enhance US geo-engineering and rock mechanics by providing an international perspective on important issues currently being addressed by ISRM such as international underground research laboratories, radioactive waste disposal, rock testing methods, application of geophysics in rock mechanics, and post-mining rock mechanics. The ISRM meetings will also allow the opportunity to generate international interest in rock mechanics research experiments at the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) and to update the international rock mechanics community on the progress and plans for DUSEL.The broader impacts of this award go beyond the geo-engineering and rock mechanics communities. US participation in the activities of ISRM has a direct impact on issues of national importance through collaborative alliances fostered by the international society. These areas include resource exploration and production, national security issues, environmental considerations, and civil infrastructure systems through advances in tunnelling and excavation technologies