Project Grant G20AP00052

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) project grant award of $122,773 to the San Diego State University Research Foundation will support collaborative research to identify earthquake-related damage preserved in fault zones and use this information to better assess potential earthquake hazards along known fault lines. The research, which will run from June 2025 to May 2028, aims to develop criteria to distinguish earthquake-related damage from long-term fault...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,000 two-year Project Grant to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research into the spatiotemporal scales of transient slow slip on the San Andreas Fault near San Juan Bautista, Central California, and the implications for seismic hazard assessment in the region. Specifically, the funding will allow researchers to conduct fieldwork and analyses to better understand...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $354,304 in funding to the University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino to host a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on designing sedimentation and tectonics research experiences to recruit junior-level university students and sophomore-level community college students into geoscience educational and career tracks. The REU site...

This $171,824 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) was awarded to the San Jose State University (SJSU) Research Foundation to characterize the geometry and activity of faults making up the San Andreas Fault system in the San Francisco Bay Area. The two-year project, entitled "EMBRACE-EAR-SEED: Transformative Research Experiences in Earthquake Science," will integrate geological field mapping, LiDAR data, and computer modeling to...

This three-year, $473,885 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research defining the paleoclimate-fire relationship in California across temporal scales. The award supports four objectives: 1) Monitoring three karst systems to develop process-based understanding of hydroclimate and fire tracers; 2) Building a multi-proxy karst system model linking said proxies to environmental drivers; 3) Developing comparable proxy records from ten...

This Project Grant award of $1,617,606.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) supports collaborative research to explore the role of rapid cementation, cohesion, and pore fluid pressure evolution in the dynamics of slow slip events along the Earth's faults. The research team will conduct experiments subjecting rock and mineral samples to the temperature and pressure conditions of slow slip events to measure...

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 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...

This $248,297 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund collaborative research to improve understanding of how local geological structures affect earthquake ground motion amplification in the Pacific Northwest. The research team from Purdue University will develop new ways to constrain the subsurface structure of Cascadia forearc basins, which will provide better information to guide estimates of ground motions from seismic hazards...

This $107,139 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) supports a collaborative research project with Montana Technological University and the Wyoming State Geological Survey. The project aims to investigate the geometry and slip rate of the East Gallatin-Reese Creek fault system, a 40-km-long, Quaternary-active, east-dipping normal fault system in northwest Yellowstone National Park. The key activities include mapping...