timesofoman/News/Article-31350.aspx Muscat: The north of Oman, including a large number of sites of geological interest, are in focus as a renowned expert visited Oman. The Rector and the Department of Applied Geosciences of GUtech welcomed Professor Dr Sierd Cloetingh, Royal Netherlands Academy Professor of Earth Sciences at the Utrecht University (Netherlands). Professor Cloetingh gave a presentation on Integrated Solid Earth Sciences – challenges and perspectives, to AGEO students and GUtech staff. Professor Cloetingh is a well-known geoscientist who has published more than 300 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed geosciences journals. He is also editor-in-chief of Global and Planetary Change and member of the editorial board of Tectonophysics. Professor Cloetingh has also been a promoter of more than 65 PhD students of 18 different nationalities. He has received honorary doctorates from five European universities and numerous honours and rewards such as the Holmes Medal, the honorary membership of the European Geosciences Union, Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Prof. Cloetingh is also President of the International Lithosphere Programme (ILP), Vice-President of the European Academy of Sciences and a member of the European Research Council (ERC). To discuss future scientific cooperation, Professor Cloetingh has been invited by the AGEO department and the Department of Geosciences of RWTH Aachen University, who have also organised a one week field trip around the north of Oman including a large number of sites of geological interest, such as the exposed crust/mantle transition and the ophiolites in Wadi Al Abbyad, carbonate sequences and source rocks and the uplifted coastal terraces along the Omani coastline, an area that is currently part of a tsunami research project conducted by Prof. Dr Goesta Hoffmann. Prof. Goesta and Prof. Wiekert Visser of the AGEO Department have conducted the field-excursion along with Prof. Dr Peter Kukla, Energy & Mineral Resources Group and Director of the Geological Institute at RWTH Aachen University. We have developed plans for long-term strategic cooperation, embedded in the international lithosphere programme. Specifically, setup for a thematic research programme, TOPO-OMAN, affiliated to the successful TOPO-EUROPE programme on coupled deep Earth and surface processes with implications for georesources and natural hazards has been discussed. Additionally, research training programmes, including workshops and short courses as well as the exchange of staff form an integral part of this collaborative effort, said Prof. Peter Kukla.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 03:56:44 +0000
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