Project Grant DESC0024012

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development of a multiphysics model to simulate flow and thermal processes of a novel 3D heat pulse groundwater flowmeter. The $110,800 award to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of the Nevada System of Higher Education will fund activities to: 1) provide modeling support for the design of a flow tank to evaluate and validate the 3D...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to design, develop, prototype, and validate a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool for comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of geothermal wells at high temperature and pressure without active cooling. The $5,500,231 award to Clemson University, with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $299,809 to the University of Memphis to investigate how faults respond to rapid changes in stress in geothermal reservoirs. The project aims to deploy seismometers, analyze earthquake data using machine learning, and develop computational models to understand the link between operational changes and induced seismic activity. The researchers will examine this phenomenon at the Blue Mountain...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) totaling $225,816 will support collaborative research to investigate the evolution of elastic wave properties during the seismic cycle. The primary objectives are to explore whether variations in seismic wave properties can be identified before and/or after earthquakes, determine the underlying physical mechanisms, and assess the potential for operational forecasting of ruptures on meter-scale...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research and development at the University of Tulsa to advance the modeling and analysis of CO2 transport in porous media for geological carbon sequestration. The $157,471 award, effective July 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025, aims to develop computationally efficient data-driven models to predict and analyze the complex flow behavior of CO2 in geological formations. The...

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp. (IFOS) received a $199,955 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-resolution fiber-optic sensing system for geothermal fracture imaging. The system will utilize fiber optic sensor technologies to map subsurface fractures for geothermal energy exploration and development. Mapping fractures is important for locating geothermal reservoirs and managing...

New England Research, Inc. was awarded a $198,411 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research titled "Integrated Characterization and Modeling of Subsurface Properties Critical to Geothermal Energy Storage in Sedimentary Reservoirs." The grant period runs from February 21, 2023 through December 20, 2023. Under this award, New England Research will perform work in White River...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $650,000 over a 3-year period to the University of Southern California to develop an AI model that can better understand fault dynamics and earthquake hazards in heavily faulted geologic basins. The project builds a multiphysics fault network model to discover reduced-order governing equations for the evolution of stress in complex fault systems, using the Southern Permian Basin in the...

This Project Grant award of $238,875.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop a detailed 3D model of the Los Angeles Basin to improve understanding of seismic hazards in the region. The project will analyze data from a 300-node geophone array deployed across the LA Basin in 2022, along with other seismic and gravity observations, to construct the basin model. This model will help explain variations in seismic wave amplification across the...

This $161,641 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to apply active and passive seismic imaging techniques to provide a high-resolution three-dimensional image of the subsurface summit structure of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. Funded from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026, the award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will integrate an active-passive seismic survey of the Kilauea summit with a temporary nodal...