Definitive Contract NNH06CD82C

This federal contract award to Stanford University, a renowned private research institution, is focused on studying earthquake hazards along the Cascadia region of the Pacific Northwest. The $437,838 grant aims to determine if aseismic, or "silent," slip events along the plate boundary are affecting earthquake risk in this area. The research will leverage InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) data, in combination with GPS and seismic information, to map crustal deformation...

Missouri University of Science & Technology, a component of the University of Missouri System, received a $489,593 research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded on January 20, 2022, for the project "Testing for Active Subduction off Northern Hispaniola with Geodetic Data and Crustal Deformation Modeling" (21-ESI21-0045). The work addresses seismic hazard assessment in the Caribbean region, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola have...

The University of Arizona, operating under the Arizona Board of Regents, was awarded a $3.1 million research grant by a civilian federal agency on February 1, 2023, for the development of a seismometer to investigate interior asteroid structure. The project, designated E014042 and MATISE22_2-0018, will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, with an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2027. This award carries no set-aside designation, reflecting the university's competitive standing in federal...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $609.8K research grant to New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on March 1, 2021, for a project titled "Probing Weak Energy Release in Quiescent Solar Active Regions." The grant, which carries no set-aside designation, is scheduled for completion by February 28, 2027, and will be performed at NJIT's Newark, New Jersey campus. This research initiative falls under the NSF's Education and Human Resources Directorate portfolio and represents...

This is a $339,644.46 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant supports a 3-year research project to measure the seismic moment accumulation rate and crustal strain rate along the San Andreas Fault System using a combination of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The project aims to improve processing methods for...

Global Technologies Corp. of Atlanta, Georgia has been awarded a $750,000 firm fixed price definitive contract by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to further develop a system that automatically associates seismic phases recorded across multiple stations. This contract is being awarded under Phase II of the Small Business Technology Transfer program to advance research initiated under Phase I. The prime contractor will perform work over a three year period in Atlanta. The...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Seismic Instrumentation and Research LLC, a small disadvantaged business. The $124,500.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development and testing of a miniaturized borehole seismometer to be deployed with a heat probe on the lunar surface. The seismometer will be designed to work with an existing gas jet drilling method to reach depths of up to...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $125,494.52 research and development training grant to the University of Oregon to develop an algorithm that can rapidly determine the magnitude of large earthquakes, including those in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This work aims to improve earthquake early warning systems, which are critical for providing seconds to minutes of advance warning before strong shaking occurs. The project will apply machine learning techniques to...

The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $665,939 grant award from NASA on March 9, 2023, for research titled "Strain Rate and Moment Rate in Western North America from InSAR and GNSS." The project, led by David Sandwell at UCSD in collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Hawaii, and CICESE in Mexico, addresses two critical surface deformation science questions from NASA's 2016 Earth Science...

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been awarded a $515,973 research grant by a civilian federal agency to conduct a study on forecasting active region emergence using helioseismic and machine learning methods. The research aims to advance solar physics by examining subsurface layers of the sun's convection zone up to 60 millimeters in depth through both established and novel helioseismic techniques. The project will analyze approximately 100 active regions to evaluate the...