U.S.-U.S.S.R. Exploratory Visit Concerning Baikal Drilling Project (Pirkutsk, USSR; January 8-13, 1990)

该旅行奖励的目的是让博士。 道格拉斯F.威廉姆斯继续与 苏联科学院（SAS）和苏联科学部 地质学（MINGEO）关于长期计划 贝加尔湖的研究，因为它涉及到全球 气候变化，地球化学循环，大陆 裂谷和地球物理学，以及美苏大陆联合 科学钻探 这将直接建立在 早些时候关于贝加尔湖钻探的讨论 项目（发展局）在南方大学举行 1989年7月在卡罗莱纳和在雅罗斯拉夫尔、莫斯科和 1989年8月，伊尔库茨克。 威廉姆斯博士也将能够与他的 苏联同行第一次处理结果 苏联地球物理学家的美国地球物理学家， 从贝加尔湖收集的通道地震（MCS）数据 由海洋学研究所（莫斯科）在夏季 在1989年。 这将是特别重要的 因为它显示了逐步过程中的真实的进展 启动美苏基础地球科学研究， 贝加尔湖。 该项目实现了以下计划目标： 推动科学知识的发展， 美国和苏联的研究人员 联合收割机互补的努力和能力， 共同感兴趣和有能力的领域， 基础科研领域， 平等、互惠、互利。

The purpose of this travel award is to allow Dr. Douglas F. Williams to continue the dialogue with the Soviet Academy of Sciences (SAS) and USSR Ministry of Geology (MINGEO) about a program for long-term research of Lake Baikal as it relates to global climate change, biogeochemical cycles, continental rifting and geophysics, and joint US-USSR continental scientific drilling. This would build directly on earlier discussions about a possible Baikal Drilling Project (BDP) held at the University of South Carolina in July 1989 and at Yaroslavl, Moscow and Irkutsk in August 1989. Dr. Williams would also be able to discuss with his Soviet counterparts the results of the first processing by US geophysicists of Soviet geophysical multi- channel seismic (MCS) data from Lake Baikal, collected by the Institute of Oceanology (Moscow) in the summer of 1989. That would be particularly important because is shows real progress in the step-wise process of initiating US-USSR basic geoscience research on Lake Baikal. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.