US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Tectonic Motion of the Sinai Block, Implications for Earthquake Hazards in the Greater Cairo Area and along the Dead Sea Fault

0001583 Reilinger描述：该奖项旨在支持马萨诸塞州剑桥市马萨诸塞州理工学院地球大气行星科学系首席研究科学家Robert Reilinger博士和Salah M. Mahmoud，埃及赫勒万国家天文学和地球物理研究所副教授。 这些科学家计划研究东北非洲西奈地块的现今运动及其对该地区地震危险的影响。 他们计划使用全球定位系统（GPS）直接测量西奈地块相对于非洲和阿拉伯半岛的运动。 确定正在进行的运动的西奈块，以及如何容纳这种运动（即位置和活动断层边界块）是根本的，我们了解北非的区域构造和大开罗和尼罗河三角洲的人口稠密地区的地震灾害。范围：美国PI和埃及团队在东地中海的构造和地震活动的研究有着长期的经验。 Reilinger博士是一项多国努力的主要研究员，该努力涉及中东的几个国家，以监测该地区的板块构造。 该项目是麻省理工学院小组在中东几个国家安装全球定位系统站的努力的延伸。 麻省理工学院和NRIAG这两个机构拥有这项研究所需的互补设施和能力。 该项目将涉及麻省理工学院的一名美国博士后研究员，为此人提供国际研究经验。 该提案符合INT的目标，即支持在共同感兴趣的领域进行合作研究。 该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

0001583ReilingerDescription: This award is to support a collaborative project by Dr. Robert Reilinger, Principal research Scientist, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts and Dr. Salah M. Mahmoud, Associate Professor, the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) in Helwan, Egypt. These scientists plan to study present-day motion of the Sinai block, NE Africa and the implications for the earthquake hazards in the region. They plan to use Global Positioning System (GPS) to directly measure the motion of the Sinai block relative to Africa and Arabia. Determining the ongoing motion of the Sinai block and how this motion is accommodated (i.e. location and active faults bounding the block) is fundamental to our understanding of the regional tectonics of North Africa and earthquake hazards in the heavily populated areas of greater Cairo and the Nile Delta.Scope: The US PI and the Egyptian teams have long experience in the study of the tectonics and seismicity of the eastern Mediterranean. Dr. Reilinger is a principal researcher in a multinational effort involving several countries in the Middle East to monitor plate tectonics in the region. This project is an extension of the MIT team's effort to install GPS stations in several countries in the Middle East. The two institutions, MIT and NRIAG, have complementary facilities and capabilities needed for this research. The project will involve a US postdoctoral researcher at MIT, providing that person with an international research experience. This proposal meets the INT objective of supporting collaborative research in areas of mutual interest. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.