Project Grant 2106712

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant through its Office of International Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.079) to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) to facilitate a coordinated global effort to understand subduction zone geohazards. This 4-year award aims to: Develop an intellectual community to compare global subduction zone observations and cooperatively instrument critical regions to enable breakthroughs in understanding earthquakes,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), provides $400,000 to the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (UPR-RP) to conduct a 2-year project focused on building geological hazards capacity in Puerto Rico. The project will involve research coordinated by social scientists and geoscientists at both UPR-RP and USGS, in collaboration with local partners, to assess past and current geologic hazard...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences (CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences) provides $345,926 to Florida International University (FIU) to characterize seismic activity and fault slip dynamics along the Enriquillo Plantain Garden Fault Zone (EPGFZ) and the Septentrional Fault Zone (SFZ) in Hispaniola. The primary research activities include: 1) Detecting transient aseismic slip events, 2) Calculating interseismic surface velocity fields, and 3)...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $297,681 to Purdue University to better understand the relationship between orogenesis and seismogenesis along the southern Cascadia forearc region in northern California. The research team will analyze a recently acquired dataset using seismic methodologies including receiver function imaging, ambient noise interferometry, and joint inversion of receiver...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $142,251 supports research examining the influence of critical zone processes on topography in Puerto Rico. Funded under the Integrative Activities program, the award will test hypotheses about how differences in bedrock geology and associated soil characteristics impact landslide occurrence, sediment grain sizes in rivers, and flood frequencies. Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez and Colorado State University will conduct...

Summary: NEW GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND DIGITAL COMPILATION IN CALIFORNIA The California Department of Conservation's California Geological Survey (CGS) received a $1,432,643.42 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey under the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (STATEMAP element, CFDA 15.810) for the period December 1, 2025 through November 30, 2027. CGS will produce three new 7.5-minute quadrangle geologic maps at 1:24,000 scale covering the northern half of California,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary Geohazards International received a $227,180 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to deliver disaster preparedness training and outreach in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The award, effective March 1–September 30, 2026, focuses on providing families in Hispaniola with practical preparedness information and data for geologic hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and...

This $171,824 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) was awarded to the San Jose State University (SJSU) Research Foundation to characterize the geometry and activity of faults making up the San Andreas Fault system in the San Francisco Bay Area. The two-year project, entitled "EMBRACE-EAR-SEED: Transformative Research Experiences in Earthquake Science," will integrate geological field mapping, LiDAR data, and computer modeling to...

This $130,499 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a new collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site hosted by California State University San Bernardino and the University of Cincinnati. The REU site aims to recruit junior-level university students and sophomore-level community college students into geoscience education and career tracks through a year-long, cohort-based program that provides authentic...

This three-year, $334,539 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research between Colorado State University and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez to test critical zone controls on mountain-scale relief in Puerto Rico's tropical climate. The research will examine how differences in critical zone processes influence topography through a comparative study of volcanic and granitic bedrock units on the island. The project will evaluate the impact of soil and...