This $850,370 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will enable the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. to develop collaborative digital workflows to integrate field and laboratory data for the Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions (SZ4D) research community. The project will enhance the existing Strabo Spot data system to facilitate collaborative data collection, analysis, and knowledge sharing among geoscientists studying...
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 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $220,801 to Texas A&M University to develop collaborative, data-integrated workflows for the SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions) community. The project will modify the existing STRABOSPOT digital data system to enable researchers to work collaboratively in collecting and analyzing data on subduction zones, including issues of societal relevance like earthquakes, faults, and...
This $148,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will enable the University of California Santa Cruz to modify the existing STRABOSPOT digital data system to develop a collaborative environment for researchers to collect and analyze geological data more efficiently. The project will create "group-level workflows" to facilitate collaborative research on subduction zones, a key focus area for the SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences Project Grant, awarded to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), aims to advance the understanding of subduction fault and earthquake mechanics. Through a combination of new experiments on subduction zone rocks and numerical modeling, the project will investigate how the rheology (deformation behavior) of the megathrust fault zone, and the heterogeneity within it, affect fault slip behavior. Additionally, the project will...
This $355,607 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to investigate an ancient example of flat-slab subduction in southern California and western Arizona. The goal is to collect data from rocks that were once located above the descending oceanic plate in order to improve simulations and understanding of similar modern tectonic settings, many of which pose significant...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant, awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on August 1, 2024, provides $201,306 in funding over 3 years for a collaborative research project investigating seismic hazards along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone. The project aims to combine data from a traditional land-based broadband seismic deployment and a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) experiment along the Cook Inlet in Alaska to model the...
This $171,096 project grant was awarded on April 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington (doing business as Carnegie Institution for Science), a prominent non-profit research organization. The grant supports a series of modeling studies and technical planning to design an integrated array of instruments to observe interconnected earthquake, volcanic, and landslide geohazards at the Chile subduction zone. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project between the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Hebrew University to directly measure fault rupture dynamics and seismic wave propagation in a laboratory setting. The $399,601 award, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will leverage specialized laboratory equipment to conduct high-speed imaging and in-situ seismogram...
This $174,000 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences aims to advance understanding of episodic tremor and slip in subduction zones. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen knowledge of the integrated Earth system, this award will fund research into the role of metasomatic alteration in subduction zone seismic phenomena from September 2021 through August 2023. The grantee, located in Seattle,...