This federal contract award, valued at $537,604.85, was issued by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oregon (UO) to develop a framework that leverages high-rate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations and machine learning to identify the final magnitude, extent, and associated hazards of a large earthquake before the rupture process is complete. The objective is to enable more effective real-time assessment...
This is a $420,696.71 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research on improving fault slip estimates for large magnitude earthquakes. The goal is to better understand the natural hazards associated with earthquakes in order to enhance mitigation and preparation efforts. The research will focus on using a range of geodetic data to produce accurate estimates of fault slip across the entire...
The University of Oregon was awarded a $408,906.90 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to quantify the effects of long-term groundwater withdrawal on stress changes and seismicity in the Central Valley of California. The project aims to characterize surface deformation, hydraulic properties, and effective load changes associated with groundwater extraction in the region. The results will provide water management agencies with tools and datasets to address...
This is a $278,019 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to conduct research related to land surface change and associated natural hazards. The grant supports the development of predictive capabilities and early warning technologies for major earthquakes, focusing on modeling the dynamics of tsunamis using the Tsunami Squares method. The work builds upon previous NASA-funded efforts to model earthquakes,...
The University of Oregon received a $550,195 civilian federal research grant awarded on January 18, 2022, with completion scheduled for December 31, 2026. The contract addresses earthquake and tsunami hazard mitigation, focusing on understanding the significant risks that large seismic events pose to U.S. infrastructure and populations. With annual losses from earthquake-induced strong shaking estimated at approximately $5 billion, this research effort aims to advance scientific knowledge and...
This $563,082 federal grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oregon (UO) for a project titled "PATH EFFECTS IN EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS FROM CRUSTAL DEFORMATION". The contract type is a grant for research, with a period of performance ending on March 10, 2027. UO is the prime recipient of this award, which does not have a set-aside designation. As a major research university, UO has extensive capabilities in scientific...
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...
This is a $146,751 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Oregon for research on geomorphic change and hazard potential from landslides in a tectonically active region. The research will be conducted through an academic-government collaboration, with principal investigator Dr. Roering from the University of Oregon supervising the work, and co-investigators Dr. Schulz from the U.S. Geological Survey and Dr. Schmidt from the University of Oregon...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000.00 training grant to the University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education, doing business as The University of Pittsburgh, for a project titled "Identifying the Lateral Variation in Area Available to Rupture in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia to Quantify the Earthquake Hazards." The contract is focused on using surface, satellite, and laboratory data along with structural, thermal,...
This is a $985,672.09 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, a research-focused public institution, for a study on the interactions between extreme precipitation, wildfires, earthquakes, and mass movements that can lead to cascading hazards and large-scale disasters. The research will leverage multiple NASA remote sensing data sets in conjunction with in-situ observations and advanced hydrologic and fluvial modeling to improve...
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 analyze geodetic (GPS) data in the early stages of a large earthquake to enable more accurate magnitude estimation, overcoming limitations of current seismic-based systems that can underestimate the size of the largest quakes. This research directly supports NASA's goal of using Earth science to improve the assessment and response to natural hazards.