Project Grant G20AP00054

This two-year, $354,309 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to develop a new three-dimensional subsurface framework model of the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest. The awardee, the University of Texas at Austin, will analyze seismic data collected during the 2021 Cascadia Seismic Imaging Experiment to study the geometry of the plate interface along the margin, variations in plate interface properties, the...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Oregon received a $282,492 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative aims to improve ground motion prediction for earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest by developing methods to characterize shallow shear-wave velocity structure in sedimentary basins. The...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Oregon received a $309,272 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) project delivers two primary research products: (1) development of a systematic validation framework for ground motion models in the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) that identifies...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $479,989 to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to analyze marine seismic data along the Cascadia subduction zone offshore Vancouver Island to southern Oregon. The award aims to constrain variability in subducting sediment thickness, water content of the downgoing plate, and topography of the sediment-basement interface from January 1, 2023 to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $261,123 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Oregon (UO) to conduct a comprehensive study of the Cascadia subduction zone, focusing on seismic and tsunami activity around the year 1700 CE. The key objectives are to: Map high-resolution paleotsunami deposits at two key locations along the Cascadia subduction zone, and Execute thousands of advanced tsunami inundation models to test hypotheses about...

This collaborative research project grant of $249,272, awarded January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, by the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports the development of physics-based machine learning techniques to generate synthetic earthquake ground motions. The primary deliverable is an Operator Inference (OPINF) model order reduction technique that will create time-dependent parametric surrogate models capable of...

This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $100,459 to the University of Washington to support collaborative research building a new three-dimensional subsurface framework for the Cascadia Subduction Zone through integrated analysis of data from the 2021 Cascadia Seismic Imaging Experiment (CASIE21). Key products include a regional-scale structural interpretation of offshore Cascadia from...

This $110,662 federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807), aims to develop a framework for continuously updating ground motion prediction equations. The proposed research by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) involves collecting and processing seismic data to create physics-based and engineering-based ground motion models, leveraging a Bayesian regression approach to...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,364 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The objective of this 3-year award, commencing on May 1, 2024, is to conduct a comprehensive study of the Cascadia subduction zone, focusing on seismic and tsunami activity around the year 1700 CE. UNCW will carry out high-resolution mapping of paleotsunami deposits at two key locations along the Cascadia subduction zone...