Project Grant W911NF2510170

This Project Grant award of $175,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a collaborative research project led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop an AI model for understanding fault network dynamics and their impact on earthquake hazards and subsurface energy processes. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to build a multiphysics fault network model that can discover reduced-order governing equations for the...

This Project Grant award for $367,031 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to observe and analyze experimental systems that simulate frictional dynamics at the microscopic interfaces of fault lines and glacial systems. The goal is to gain a better understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that drive the evolution of conditionally unstable frictional interfaces, which is critical for improving assessments of seismic and glacial...

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 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $180,000 to Dr. James Neely to conduct research assessing whether small and large earthquakes release energy in the same manner. Dr. Neely will use computer simulations of synthetic earthquakes to examine assumptions about earthquake energy release and compare stress drop estimates from different commonly used methods to known stress drop values in simulated data. This will identify...

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 $238,111 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Harvard University from August 2022 through July 2025 to develop an understanding of the factors controlling ground surface deformation during thrust and reverse fault earthquakes. Through discrete element modeling, the researchers will generate over 6,000 two-dimensional models and additional three-dimensional models to statistically assess how fault and sediment parameters...

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...

Lehigh University has been awarded a $348,716 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on 3D imaging of subduction zone megathrust rupture and slip behavior from October 2023 through June 2025. The research team, led by Drs. Meltzer and Beck at Lehigh University, will analyze seismic data collected in northern Ecuador between 2020 and 2022 to generate detailed 3D images of the subduction zone fault geometry...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $120,026 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a 5-year research project titled "CAREER: Towards a Comprehensive Model of Seismicity Throughout the Seismic Cycle." The project aims to develop sophisticated computer models of faults to understand the relationship between small, everyday earthquakes and the potential occurrence of larger, destructive...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant totaling $153,335 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to support a collaborative research project titled "Seeing and Hearing Frictional Interfaces: Using Total Internal Reflection Imaging and Acoustic Methods to Explore Contact Dynamics." The goal of this 3-year project, starting on Feb 15, 2025, is to directly observe the evolution of contacts and coupled...