Project Grant DESC0022818

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $650,869 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research and development of a seismic monitoring methodology for underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs. Specifically, the awardee will develop a system combining time-lapse seismic imaging, physical...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $250,000.00 in funding to Terradac Technologies LLC to develop an "AUTOMATED FAST-MODULAR GEOPHYSICAL MONITORING NETWORK FOR CARBON STORAGE OPERATIONS." The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as environmental science and emerging...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $198,069 Project Grant to the University of Washington (UW) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct a 4-day test of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) on the Ocean Observatory Initiative's Regional Cabled Array off the coast of Oregon. The project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using multiplexed DAS technology on existing submarine telecommunications cables to improve seafloor monitoring capabilities, particularly for...

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 $249,924 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development of a long-lived, continuously operating seafloor geodesy reference station capable of operating in deep water. The grantee, Princeton University, will investigate using acoustic signals that only need to travel from the sea surface to the seafloor, removing the prior 3,000 meter depth limitation of existing seafloor geodesy techniques. This new approach involves...

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...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Luna Innovations Incorporated $199,980 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the project "LARGE-APERTURE FINE-SCALE PASSIVE SEISMIC MONITORING FOR CARBON STORAGE WITH DAS" from February 14, 2022 through November 13, 2022. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

Federal Grant Award Summary Silicon Audio Seismic, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) dated July 8, 2025, with a completion date of July 7, 2026. The awardee is developing and delivering digital monitoring networks as part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program, which represents the Department of Energy's primary mechanism for sponsoring fundamental scientific research across multiple disciplines. The work is being performed in...

This Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science provided $249,963 to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp. (Ifos) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-resolution fiber-optic sensing system. The system will enable 4D mapping, detection, and characterization of legacy wellbores for carbon storage. It will also assess the integrity of such wellbores. The Office of Science aims to advance energy and economic security through...

The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. The award supports collaborative research with the University of California Berkeley to develop WaveCastNet-V2, an artificial intelligence-enabled framework designed to forecast earthquake ground motions in real-time earthquake early warning...