Project Grant 1736882

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,354,056 to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to jointly implement a new measurement technique called distributed acoustic sensing. This technique will generate high-resolution (10 m in space, minutes in time) images of ocean temperature and current velocity fields above a 34-km cable laid on the seafloor off the Azores islands. The goal is to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award Overview The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), through its Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), awarded a three-year cooperative agreement valued at $250,000 to Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation (HSU Foundation) on behalf of California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt, effective May 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for December 31, 2027. This collaborative research initiative leverages fiber-optic seismology technology...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $470,318 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from October 2021 through December 2022. The award will support collaborative research to better understand the contribution of crustal deformation to present-day tectonics at convergent margins like the southern Cascadia forearc. Researchers will utilize multiple geochronologic techniques to develop a record of exhumation and erosion in...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences totals $137,255 to support the development of a plate-scale distributed strain sensing system as a candidate for earthquake early warning. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography will use the award period from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023 to establish the feasibility of measuring seafloor deformation along...

This two-year, $255,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a new remote sensing technique for measuring seismic waves at Michigan Technological University. The researchers will enhance the Moiré technique, which images patterns from differential motion between grids, by placing one grid on a remote location using an unmanned aerial vehicle and the other within a base telescope. This will enable measurement of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences supports a collaborative research project led by Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation, a Hispanic Serving Institution. The $296,973 award, effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026, will fund an undergraduate cohort experience to investigate the tectonic and geologic history of the Klamath Mountains region of the Pacific Northwest. The research team will apply advanced thermochronology...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded Columbia University $680,331 under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct long-term compliance observations of the magma chamber at Axial Volcano, a large submarine volcano located offshore Cascadia. The project, active from March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2029, will deploy three high-resolution seafloor compliance instruments over the central magma chamber region for two years to...

This two-year Project Grant award of $401,300 from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences supports collaborative research on constraints of interseismic locking near the trench on the Oregon segment of the Cascadia Subduction Zone using seafloor geodesy. The research will be conducted through the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program supports basic research in the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $298,389 to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. for research titled "Collaborative Research: Deployment of Seafloor Optical Fiber Strainmeters for the Detection of Slow Slip Events" from February 15, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The funding supports the placement of seafloor optical fiber strainmeters to monitor slow slip events along subduction zones. This work aligns with the goals...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $109,068 to the University of Washington from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023. The funding supports a collaborative research effort to test the feasibility of making undersea observations of seismic and oceanic processes across ocean basins using existing telecommunications cables. Specifically, the grant will partially fund two graduate students...