The Statewide California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) through cooperative agreements with the University of Southern California (USC). Additional funding for SCEC research and educational activities is also provided by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the W.M. Keck Foundation, the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and potentially other sources.
Funding provided to SCEC supports earthquake research and education in California and beyond—engaging a community of over 1,000 active participants. The SCEC research program funds over 100 projects each year, including (a) smaller grants for individual scientists, (b) larger grants for collaborative teams, and (c) workshops that focus on specific research initiatives.
SCEC research, activities and products are a massive scientific enterprise, made possible by the collective efforts of many people and various sponsors. It is therefore appropriate to give credit to those who have supported the project or activity. SCEC researchers are requested to follow the guidelines below to acknowledge support by SCEC and its funding agencies when appropriate (as required in the subaward terms and conditions).
Documents published by the SCEC community, including journal articles, books, chapters, presentations, etc. are collected in the SCEC publications database. Each record is identified by its SCEC Contribution Number. This number should be included in the acknowledgement of SCEC funding support.
Log into central.scec.org, and select Publications on your dashboard. Click the “ADD NEW” button, and fill in citation details (journal, title, co-authors, DOI, and other publication details.) Note the contribution number (at the top of the page) to include in your acknowledgments. Every new publication record will be reviewed before it is included in SCEC’s online database. Don’t forget to update the SCEC publication record to “published” (from submitted, accepted, under review) once your article has been published.
When the research is supported by SCEC’s prime awards from NSF or USGS only:
This research was supported by the Statewide California Earthquake Center (Contribution No.xxxx). SCEC is funded by NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-2225216 and USGS Cooperative Agreement G24AC00072-00.
If the prime award is from another SCEC sponsor (such as NASA, DOE, Keck, or PG&E), please specify as shown below (see third sentence):
SCEC’s high-performance computing (HPC) allocations provide researchers with access to external computing resources to conduct computationally intensive earthquake system science research. These are awarded through competitive proposals to USC, NSF, and DOE allocation programs. Please review the resource providers below and acknowledge any HPC resources used in your work.
Discovery 2020-2025
The authors acknowledge the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) at the University of Southern California for providing computing resources that supported this research. https://carc.usc.edu
Frontera 2022-2025
Frontier 2025
This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science user facility supported by Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Frontier 2023-2024
This research was supported by an award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program and utilized resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, supported by the DOE Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Theta, Polaris 2022-2023
This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at the Argonne National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science user facility supported under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research Program Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
Summit 2021-2023
This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science user facility supported by Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Perlmutter 2021-2023
This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science user facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 using NERSC award ALCC-ERCAP0025840.
SCEC.org content (images, audio, video, and computer files) generally are not copyrighted, and may be used for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and web pages.
News outlets, schools, and text-book authors may use SCEC content without needing explicit permission. SCEC content used in a factual manner that does not imply endorsement may be used without needing explicit permission. SCEC, and specifically the researcher(s) or content author(s), should be acknowledged as the source of the material. To obtain information about the author(s) of specific SCEC content, please contact scec@usc.edu.
Occasionally, SCEC uses copyrighted material by permission on our website. Those images will be marked copyright with the name of the copyright holder. Those wishing to use copyrighted material must contact the copyright holder directly.
The SCEC logo should be used (a) by recipients of SCEC support for the purpose of acknowledging that support or (b) to acknowledge SCEC assistance or affiliation. The most likely uses of the SCEC logo in these cases are on websites, posters, flyers, or presentations.
The SCEC logo should appear the same size as logos of other organizations. Each organization’s logo should be surrounded by a generous amount of open/clear space, free of any text and imagery. Before using another organization’s logo, please review its policies for proper usage and obtaining permission for use, if necessary. For example, see the official policies for use of the NSF logo, USGS logo, NASA logo, and DOE logo.
The SCEC logo represents the Center visually and functions as its official graphic identifier. The logo and associated brand assets should be used for official SCEC communications and by recipients of SCEC support to acknowledge that support, assistance, or affiliation.
The SCEC logo may be used without prior written consent to: (1) acknowledge receipt of SCEC support, (2) link to the SCEC website, and (3) acknowledge SCEC assistance or affiliation.
For any other use beyond these stated purposes, please obtain written consent from SCEC beforehand. To request consent, email a description of the intended use to SCEC.
Download the SCEC logo and follow the SCEC Brand Guide for proper usage. If used on a digital product, the SCEC logo should link to www.scec.org.
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