NSF Org:	EAR Division Of Earth Sciences
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Initial Amendment Date:	January 17, 1996
Latest Amendment Date:	September 30, 1996
Award Number:	9530886
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Leonard E. Johnson EAR  Division Of Earth Sciences GEO  Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	November 1, 1995
End Date:	July 31, 1997 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$29,310.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$29,310.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 1996 = $29,310.00
History of Investigator:	Douglas Williams (Principal Investigator) doug@geol.sc.edu Clyde Goulden (Co-Principal Investigator) Peter Molnar (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of South Carolina at Columbia 1600 HAMPTON ST COLUMBIA SC  US  29208-3403 (803)777-7093
Sponsor Congressional District:	06
Primary Place of Performance:	University of South Carolina at Columbia 1600 HAMPTON ST COLUMBIA SC  US  29208-3403
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	06
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	J22LNTMEDP73
Parent UEI:	Q93ZDA59ZAR5
NSF Program(s):	CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS PROGRAM, EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC PROGRAM
Primary Program Source:	app-0196
Program Reference Code(s):	0000, 1068, OTHR
Program Element Code(s):	158100, 597800
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.050

ABSTRACT

9530886 Williams Recent political changes in the Republic of Mongolia make it possible for the first time in modern history to begin the establishment of long-term cooperative programs to study a wide variety of important scientific problems in this important region of Asia. In order to begin this process, NSF requested the P.I.s to organize a Planning Workshop for American scientists to explore and develop opportunities for cooperative research with Mongolian scientists. The purpose of the workshop is to provide the broader U.S. scientific community, including governmental and non- governmental agencies, with a coordinated science plan for future large and small scale scientific investigations in the Republic of Mongolia. Several important questions to be addressed by the workshop include: o the level of biological endemism in lakes of the Hovsgol and Darhad Grabens of northern Mongolia and the relationships between the biota of the Selenga River in northern Mongolia which connects Hovsgol Nuur with Lake Baikal; o the tectonic and structural relationship of these lake systems and surrounding tectonic terrains to the Himalayan orogeny, the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the reactivation of the Baikal Rift Zone including the evolution of Lake Baikal and the climatic regime of Asia; o the surface ruptures and deformation associated with great earthquakes in Mongolia to understand the process of intracontinental mountain building. ***

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