Project Grant G12AP20059

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $244,152 to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to investigate the nature and timing of the Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) in southeastern California. The 3-year project aims to constrain the timescales and styles of deformation within the inactive, paleo-ECSZ through field studies, structural analysis, and geochronology. Key activities include studying the Bear Canyon...

This $102,656 federal Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (CFDA 15.807 - Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will support research to refine the interseismic velocity field around the Anza seismic gap on the San Jacinto Fault in Southern California. The project will collect new Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations and combine them with existing GNSS and interferometric...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $106,431 to The University of New Mexico for collaborative research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The research aims to develop high resolution passive seismic imaging beneath Valles Caldera in Albuquerque, New Mexico from August 2021 through July 2023. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system, including expansion of knowledge...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program award of $366,190 to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography supports collaborative research to resolve the complex tectonic deformation and seismic activity in the broken foreland region of west-central Argentina. The project aims to map fault relationships, measure sedimentary basin deposits, and employ geochronologic and thermochronologic techniques to determine the timing and magnitude of...

The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $188,294 project grant to The University of New Mexico under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2024. The grant will support research to investigate structure and seismicity within the southern region of the 1964 Great Alaska earthquake rupture area using a dense node array. Specifically, the grantee will reanalyze seismic data collected in 2019 by 400...

The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) has been awarded a $1,281,424 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey under the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (CFDA 15.810). This 2-year award will support the "2023-2025 New Mexico STATEMAP Project" to conduct geologic mapping and 3D modeling in three priority areas of New Mexico - the Rio Grande Watershed, Pecos River Watershed, and the San Juan Basin....

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 $130,499 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a new collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site hosted by California State University San Bernardino and the University of Cincinnati. The REU site aims to recruit junior-level university students and sophomore-level community college students into geoscience education and career tracks through a year-long, cohort-based program that provides authentic...

The University of Washington was awarded a $460,596 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "Trapped in Travertine: Physical and Chemical Signature of Paleoseismicity in Hot Spring Deposits on Active Faults of the Central Nevada Seismic Belt." The grant will support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences through the expansion of fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $344,136 Project Grant to the University of Nevada, Reno beginning September 1, 2025 and concluding August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop and validate a novel analytical methodology for directly dating deformation within complex polyphase shear zones by integrating crystallographic vorticity axis (CVA) analyses using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) with apatite uranium-lead (U-Pb)...