Conference Support for the 25th International Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet (HKT) Workshop

该奖项为第25届国际喜马拉雅-喀喇昆仑-西藏（HKT）研讨会提供支持。 HKT研讨会每年为地质学家、地质学家、地球化学家、地貌学家和其他工作者提供一个机会，介绍和评估该地区最近的工作成果，并计划下一年的工作。的活动。 该会议传统上每隔一年在HKT国家（尼泊尔/中国/印度等）举行。并在西方国家隔年进行，以允许更广泛的参与。 第11届香港电讯会议是唯一一次在美国举行的会议（1996年在亚利桑那州弗拉格斯塔夫举行）。 国际社会要求美国主办2010年第25届HKT研讨会，来自旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的一批科学家接受了组织这次会议的任务。自1996年北美HKT会议以来，美国工作者继续在喜马拉雅和西藏地质科学方面取得巨大进展：教科文组织继续资助西藏和喜马拉雅山的许多研究，包括继续开展的INDEPTH综合地球科学方案、穿越西藏中部的Hi-CLIMB地震断面以及研究高原南部和北方边缘地貌-地球动力学-气候耦合关系的Nanga Parbat和Namche Barwa项目等旗舰方案;以及更多吗？传统？地质学 美国国家科学基金会对喜马拉雅-西藏研究的大力支持，使我们的理解有了惊人的增长，但也提出了这样的问题：我们知道得够多吗？我们对西藏的认识和理解是否存在重大差距？下一个关键进展将在哪里以及如何取得？为什么NSF应该继续支持西藏和喜马拉雅山的大规模研究？ 该研讨会将使NSF资助的科学家聚集在一起讨论这些问题;评估进展并计划在未来几年内将活动导向需要更多数据以填补空白的地方。 会议的成果将是一份简短的白色文件，告知NSF大学科学家希望如何利用之前NSF资助的西藏和喜马拉雅地区的实地活动，并证明未来在这一领域的投资方向。

This award provides support for the 25th International Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet (HKT) Workshop. The HKT workshop provides an annual opportunity for geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, geomorphologists, and other workers to present and assess recent findings from work in the region and to plan the following year?s activity. This conference traditionally meets alternate years in an HKT country (Nepal/China/India etc.) and alternate years in a western country to allow for broader participation. The 11th HKT meeting was the only one to have been held in the US (1996 in Flagstaff, AZ). The international community has now asked the US to host the 25th HKT Workshop in 2010, and a group of scientists from San Francisco State University, Stanford, and UC Santa Cruz has accepted the task of organizing this meeting.Since the previous North American HKT meeting in 1996, US workers have continued to make huge advances in Himalayan and Tibetan geosciences: EAR/CD has continued to fund much research in Tibet and the Himalaya, including such flagship programs as the continuing INDEPTH integrated geoscience program, the Hi-CLIMB seismic transect across central Tibet, and the Nanga Parbat and Namche Barwa projects studying geomorphic-geodynamic-climate couplings at both the southern and northern margins of the Plateau; as well as much more ?traditional? geology. The strong support given by NSF to Himalaya-Tibet studies has yielded a spectacular increase in our understanding, but also raised the questions, do we know enough? Are there important gaps in our knowledge and understanding of Tibet? Where and how will the next key advances be made? Why should NSF continue to support large-scale studies in Tibet and the Himalaya? The Workshop will enable NSF funded scientists to come together to discuss these questions; to assess progress and to plan to direct activities in the coming years to where more data is needed to fill in the gaps. An outcome of the meeting will be a brief white paper to inform NSF how university scientists hope to capitalize on the previous NSF-funded field campaigns in Tibet and the Himalaya, and to justify future directions for investment in this area.