3rd Biennial Workshop on Subduction Processes Emphasizing the Kurile-Kamchatka-Aleutian Arcs to be held June 9-15, 2002 in Fairbanks, Alaska

Eichelbergerstan-0218065该奖项将用于支持各种专业科学家和研究生参加一个研讨会，致力于沿着千岛群岛，堪察加半岛和阿留申群岛弧的过程，包括地球上最活跃和最不了解的火山活动和构造活动地区之一。本次研讨会将汇集来自美国，日本和俄罗斯的工作人员，他们正在处理理解相同的自然过程，但在该俯冲带的不同政治指定间隔内。预计这些好处将超越基础科学，扩展到协调监测和缓解自然灾害（例如地震、海啸和火山爆发）以及共享与自然资源相关的信息。会议的一个重要作用是使学生熟悉其实地工作领域的更广泛背景，并促进与其他国家学生的直接接触。其目的是刺激国际和跨学科的合作，将持续整个职业生涯。会议还将为美国地球科学家提供信息，并鼓励他们参与自己的岛弧阿留申群岛。虽然那里的灾害监测和研究迅速增长，但下48个州的学术界尚未充分利用阿留申群岛高度活跃所提供的基础研究机会。这个愿望是为了刺激美国更广泛地参与俯冲火山学，以期在未来发展一个中心型的倡议。

EichelbergerEAR-0218065This award will be used to support the participation of various professional scientists and graduate students on a workshop devoted to processes along the Kurile, Kamchatka, and Aleutians arcs that comprise one of the most active and least understood regions of volcanism and tectonism on Earth. This workshop will bring together workers from the US, Japan, and Russia who are dealing with understanding the same natural processes but within different politically designated intervals of this zone of subduction. The benefits are expected to extend beyond basic science to the coordinated monitoring and mitigation of natural hazards, such as those from earthquakes, tsunamis, and explosive volcanic eruptions and the sharing of information relevant to natural resources. An important role of the meeting will be to acquaint students with the broader context of their areas of fieldwork and to facilitate direct contact with students from other countries. The intent is to stimulate international and interdisciplinary collaborations that will last throughout their careers. The meeting will also serve to inform and stimulate involvement by American geoscientists in their own island arc, the Aleutians. Although there has been rapid growth in hazards-driven monitoring and research there, the academic community of the lower 48 states has yet to take full advantage of the opportunities for basic research that the high level of activity of the Aleutians offers. The wish is to stimulate broader American participation in the volcanology of subduction, with a view toward developing a center-type initiative in the future.