Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Robert Reilinger, a notable scientist, project manager “Eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus geoydnamics” at the U.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was deserved to 2016 Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to be held 12–16 December in San Francisco, Calif.

Note that, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the fields of geodesy, seismology, or tectonophysics.

Robert Reilinger is honored with the Paul Silver Award for inspiring so many researchers and students, in so many countries, to collaborate in the construction of a vast geodetic observatory centered on the Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia but stretching from Morocco in the west, Azerbaijan in the east, the Black Sea in the north, and Ethiopia in the south. R.Reilinger has orchestrated this sustained and very productive collaboration, despite the many political tensions in the region.

Academician-Secretary of ANAS Division of Earth Sciences Academician Fakhraddin Kadirov and Samir Mammadov (Azerbaijan), Valentine Kotzev and Ivan Georgiev (Bulgaria), Mikhail Prilepin (Caucasus, Russia), Ali Tealeb and Salah Mamoud (Egypt), Rebecca Bendick and Shimelis Fiseha (Ethiopia) are involved his project closely.

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