The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $285,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop the QUAKEWORX software framework. This 5-year collaborative research project aims to enable a broad community of researchers and students to access and further improve state-of-the-art physics-based models for forecasting earthquake ruptures and seismic hazards. The QUAKEWORX framework will provide standardized...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $225,000 Project Grant under the CFDA Program 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FRAMEWORKS: QUAKEWORX - AN EXTENSIBLE SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR EARTHQUAKE SIMULATIONS", will enable the University of Illinois to develop an innovative science gateway and cyberinfrastructure to support physics-based modeling, simulation, and analysis of...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has been awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, with a completion date of August 31, 2026, will fund collaborative research to develop innovative performance engineering techniques for scientific applications in domains such as earthquake hazard modeling and fast Fourier transform calculations. The research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $189,438 to The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge will support a two-phase research effort to model the earthquake dynamics of complex thrust fault systems in the Western Transverse Ranges of California. In the first phase, undergraduate student researchers will conduct a series of simulations to determine physics-based rules governing when an earthquake rupture is...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $800,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support collaborative research scaling time series analytics to massive seismology datasets from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The University of California at Riverside, with the State of California Controllers Office as its parent...
This $191,710 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is supporting a collaborative research effort to address fundamental issues linking great earthquakes with plate tectonics. The interdisciplinary team, led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is developing advanced computational methods and algorithms to enable the simulation of long-term tectonic plate motions coupled with the space-time evolution of stresses...
This $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to develop an AI model for understanding fault dynamics and earthquake hazards in complex fault networks. The project, led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), aims to build a multiphysics fault network model to discover reduced-order governing equations for the evolution of stress in fault systems. This work will enable improved assessment of regional...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $303,820 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Santa Cruz to characterize the seismic radiation from finite earthquake sources and investigate its links to fault physics. The research aims to improve understanding of large earthquake scenarios in different tectonic plate boundary settings by developing physics-based computational models that can reproduce geophysical observations. Key objectives...
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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $776,679 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography on August 1, 2021 for seismological investigations of earthquakes and deep earth structure. The grant is funded through the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and will support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences through July 31, 2024. As the prime awardee, Scripps Institution of Oceanography will...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $740,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop the QUAKEWORX software framework. This framework will enable a wide community of users to access state-of-the-art physics-based models for forecasting and simulating earthquakes, earthquakes ruptures, and seismic hazards. The project, funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, aims to improve earthquake forecasting capabilities, advance the science of earthquake physics, and create new opportunities for STEM education and engagement. Key deliverables include a science gateway that provides access to simulation tools, data-based model validation, and machine learning for pattern recognition on large datasets related to earthquakes and fault networks. The project leverages existing community datasets and models to facilitate reproducible research and education in this critical domain. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.