U.S.-Pakistan Workshop: Karakoram Science Project, March 2006, Lahore, Pakistan

0522728施罗德scope：这项提议是为了支持将于2006年3月在巴基斯坦拉合尔举行的美巴研讨会。美国组织者是内布拉斯加州奥马哈市内布拉斯加州大学地理与地质系的John Shroder博士和Michael Bishop博士。外国组织者是巴基斯坦白沙瓦大学地质卓越中心主任赛义德·哈米杜拉博士和印度喀拉拉邦卡利卡特大学副校长赛义德·赫斯奈恩博士。喀喇昆仑科学项目（KSP）研讨会将邀请来自美国的喜马拉雅专家与印度、巴基斯坦和其他亚洲同行一起讨论与喀喇昆仑-喜马拉雅有关的问题和可能性，以促进该地区的科学发展。通过面对面以及通过电子和纸张手段建立跨境科学对话，预计该地区的科学质量将取得重大进展，并建立未来持续的合作联系。KSP研讨会的描述将提交给EOS和Geotimes，研讨会的论文将出版在一本书中，将开发一个网站，并计划后续合作活动。智力优势：喀喇昆仑-喜马拉雅地区存在着大量优秀的科学问题。重点将主要放在冰川和质量运动特征和演变、冰川波动和相关自然灾害领域，以及正在建立西南亚基本雪、冰和融水遥感和实地研究的全球陆冰空间测量项目。将使以前受到限制的跨界合作成为可能的特别感兴趣的主题将包括新的遥感研究、从新的ASTER和其他图像制作数字高程模型、地理信息系统软件编写和转让、建立基准冰川的新的地面评估技术、关于喜马拉雅冰川、融水、相关自然灾害、共享资源的新的教育实例和技术。一些与会者将介绍他们自己关于其他地球科学主题的材料。与会者将共同为西喜马拉雅地区汇集重要的地球科学专业知识，因此将集思广益，研究山区的新想法和新程序。更广泛的影响：研讨会将接待不同群体的知名科学家，以及根据兴趣、专业知识、多样性和未来合作计划选出的新科学家和年轻学生，男女不限。该研讨会将使这组南亚科学家与美国科学家举行会议，从而能够以一种全新的方式直接讨论喀喇昆仑-喜马拉雅地区的共同问题和可能性。ppi在南亚有几十年的研究经验，他们在印度和巴基斯坦的同行是资深科学家，他们在喜马拉雅地区有类似的长期经验，并且在他们的大学里担任精英职位。他们正在从他们自己的国家和中国寻找最好的科学家来参加研讨会。本项目由国际科学与工程办公室和地球科学部资助。

0522728ShroderScope: This proposal is to support a US-Pakistan Workshop, to be held in Lahore, Pakistan March 2006. The U.S. organizers are Dr. John Shroder and Dr. Michael Bishop, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska. The foreign organizers are Dr. Syed Hamidullah, Director, Center of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan and Dr. Sayed Hsnain, Vice Chancellor, University of Calicut, Kerala, India. The Karakoram Science Project (KSP) Workshop is to engage Himalayan specialists from the USA with Indian, Pakistani, and other Asian counterparts to discuss problems and possibilities associated with the Karakoram Himalaya in a setting conducive to augmentation of science in the region. By establishing cross-border scientific dialog in person, and through electronic and paper means, significant advances in science quality in the region are expected, as well as the building of future continuing cooperative links. A description of the KSP workshop will be submitted to EOS and Geotimes, papers from the workshop will be published in a book, a website will be developed, and follow-up collaborative activities are planned. Intellectual merit: A host of excellent scientific problems exist in the Karakoram Himalaya. The focus will be mainly upon areas in glacier and mass-movement characteristics and evolution, glacier fluctuations, and related natural hazards, together with the GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) Project that is establishing remote sensing and field-based studies of the basic snow, ice, and melt water for Southwest Asia. Topics of particular interest that will enable previously restricted cross-border collaborations will include new remote-sensing studies, production of digital elevation models from the new ASTER and other imagery, geographic information system software writing and transfer, establishment of new ground-based assessment techniques of benchmark glaciers, new educational examples and techniques for the Himalaya about glaciers, melt water, associated natural hazards, shared resources. Some workshop attendees will present their own materials on other geoscience topics. Collectively the participants will bring together significant geoscience expertise for the Western Himalaya and therefore will brainstorm the new ideas and procedures to study the mountain region.Broader Impacts: The workshop will host a diverse group of established scientists, as well as new scientists and younger students of both genders, selected on the basis of interest, expertise, diversity, and their plans for future collaboration. The workshop will engage this group of South Asian scientists in meetings with American scientists, which will enable direct discussion of shared problems and possibilities for the Karakoram Himalaya in a completely new fashion. The PIs have decades of research experience in South Asia, and their counterparts in India and Pakistan are senior scientists who have similar lengthy experience in the Himalaya, as well as elite positions in their universities. They are finding the best scientists from their own countries and from China who will attend the Workshop. This project is funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Earth Sciences.