Project Grant 2603524
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $462,400 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) effective January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop machine learning-based model order reduction techniques, specifically Operator Inference (OPINF), to generate realistic synthetic seismic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary UC San Diego received a $386,220 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) with an award date of January 1, 2026 and completion date of December 31, 2028. The award supports collaborative research to develop physics-based machine learning model order reduction techniques, specifically Operator Inference (OPINF), to generate realistic synthetic seismic ground motion data. The...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This award funds fundamental research to advance understanding of earthquake dynamics and fault mechanics at the GOFAR oceanic transform fault. The research deliverables include...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded the University of California Santa Cruz $406,808 on March 1, 2027, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct friction experiments on clay-rich materials from the Cascadia subduction zone under in situ pressure-temperature-fluid chemistry conditions. The research pairs laboratory friction testing using Ocean Drilling Program core samples with numerical quasidynamic earthquake cycle models to evaluate long-term...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $537,000 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography on August 15, 2026, under the Geosciences program to develop new approaches to earthquake stress drop estimation and quantify variations in high-frequency seismic radiation. The research will improve systematic analysis of earthquake behavior by addressing inconsistencies in stress-drop measurements across scientific groups and...
- 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...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, $434,312 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) on October 1, 2025, to develop and operate QUAKEWORX, an extensible software framework for physics-based earthquake rupture forecasting and seismic hazard assessment. The framework provides a science gateway combining physics-based modeling, standardized simulation pipelines, data assimilation for model validation, and machine-learning analysis on large datasets to enable simulations of coupled earthquake and fault evolution producing outputs including seismicity, ground motion, fault network configuration, strain rates, and topography. QUAKEWORX supports community access to state-of-the-art rupture forecast models, facilitates validation and improvement of existing tools, and accelerates training of students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scientists in earthquake physics, computational modeling, and software engineering. Performance occurs in La Jolla, California, with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 1/22/26 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 12/8/25 | ||
| Not listed | $434.3k | 11/21/25 |