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SCEC Awards

The SCEC Science Plan (aka RFP) solicits proposals from individuals and groups to participate in the SCEC research program on an annual basis. Use this form to search SCEC awards from 1991-present and associated project reports.

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SCEC ID	Proposal Information	Project Report
13001	Nonlinear attenuation in the uppermost few hundred meters and ambient intact rock and regolith as fragile geological features Norman Sleep Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
13002	Community Stress Model (CSM) Workshop Jeanne Hardebeck, Brad Aagaard, Thorsten Becker, David Sandwell, Bruce Shaw, John Shaw Year: 2013 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
13003	Continuing studies of seismicity rate changes in southern California following the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake and migration pattern of the 2012 Brawley swarm Zhigang Peng Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
13005	Broadband ground motion simulations for the Canterbury earthquakes with nonlinear effective-stress modelling of surficial soils Brendon Bradley Year: 2013 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
13008	Collaborative research: Documentation of Tsunami Deposits in the Carpinteria Estuary: A signal of Great Earthquakes on the Pitas Point Thrust Thomas Rockwell, Robert Peters Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Unified Structural Representation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
13009	Rupture Dynamics Code Validation 2013 Workshop Ruth Harris, Ralph Archuleta Year: 2013 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
13010	Improving High-Frequency Site Response with Ambient Noise Victor Tsai Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation, Seismology	Report submitted
13011	Thermally Driven Shear Localization in Fault Zones James Rice Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
13012	Spontaneous Rupture Propagation With Strong Dynamic Weakening James Rice Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Dynamic Rupture Code Validation, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
13013	Enhancements to the SCEC Unified Structural Representation: CFM, SCFM, & CVMH John H. Shaw Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13014	Earthquake Rupture and Tsunami Simulations: Ventura-Pitas Point Fault System Steven Ward Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Simulators, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
13016	Validating nonlinear site response prediction methodologies for SCEC Broadband Ground Motion Simulations Domniki Asimaki Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
13017	Assessing the earthquake potential of the Ventura-Pitas Point fault system: Characterizing the linkages to other faults in the Transverse Ranges and prospects for large, multi-segment ruptures John H. Shaw Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13018	Stochastic Descriptions of Basin Velocity Structure from Analyses of Sonic Logs and the SCEC Community Velocity Model (CVM-H) John H. Shaw, Thomas Jordan Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13019	Collaborative proposal from UCSD and Caltech: SCEC Community Data Products of Relocated Seismicity, Improved Focal Mechanisms, and Waveform Spectra for Resolving Fine-Scale Fault Structures and State of Stress in Southern California Peter Shearer, Egill Hauksson Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13020	Seismicity Patterns, Swarms, and Foreshocks in Southern California Peter Shearer Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology	Report submitted
13021	Community Stress Model Web Interface Thorsten Becker, Jeanne Hardebeck Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13022	Continued study of fault mechanics and structure during laboratory stick-slip experiments Thorsten Becker, Charles Sammis, Georg Dresen Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
13023	Collaborative Research: Relating fault-slip gradients to distributed deformation in the Eastern California Shear Zone Michael Oskin, Michele Cooke Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13024	Investigating tectonic tremor beneath the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield with the PASO array Clifford Thurber Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
13026	CSEP Participation, Model development, and Testing and Optimization of Hybrid Models Matthew Gerstenberger, David Rhoades Year: 2013 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology	Report submitted
13028	Workshop for the continued development of the Community Online Resource for Statistical Seismicity Analysis Jeremy Zechar Year: 2013 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Communication, ELCA, Education, Seismology, and Outreach (CEO)	Report submitted
13030	Finite-Source Modeling and Stress Drop Estimate of Anza Microearthquakes: Implication for Fault Strength and Earthquake Nucleation Taka'aki Taira Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
13031	Validation of Ground Motion Simulations for Seismic Slope Stability Ellen Rathje Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
13032	Modeling high-frequency seismic waves in Southern California Toshiro Tanimoto Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13033	Forward modeling of fault slip rates, stress orientations, and distributed deformation in southern California with deformable microplate models Brendan Meade Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
13035	Investigation of causes and effects of transient deformation on the Superstition Hills Fault with physics based model Meng Wei, Jeff McGuire Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
13036	Spatio-temporal evolution of seismic clustering in southern California Ilya Zaliapin, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
13037	Dynamic Ruptures with Off-Fault Brittle Damage Accounting for Changes of Elastic Moduli Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology	Report submitted
13038	Compactivity, Comminution, Heating, and Disorder -- The Physics of Granular Fault Gouge Jean Carlson Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
13039	Collaborative Research: Long term slip-rate of the Banning strand of the southern San Andreas Fault at Devers Hill, request for continued funding Whitney Behr, Tom Rockwell, Dylan Rood, Warren Sharp Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation	Report submitted
13040	Heterogeneity, Rotations, and Volumetric Strain near Faults from Focal Mechanism Data Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology	Report submitted
13042	An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Dynamic Formation of Fault Zone Rocks and Their Influence on the Propagation of Earthquake Ruptures Charles Sammis Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
13043	Incorporating Roughness and Supershear in UCSB Broadband Modeling Ralph Archuleta Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
13044	Continued Benchmarking of Codes for Crustal Deformation Modeling Charles Williams, Susan Ellis Year: 2013 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
13045	Integrating InSAR and GPS data into time-varying deformation maps Rowena Lohman Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
13051	Ductile Rheology of the Southern California Lithosphere: Constraints from Deformation Modeling, Rock Mechanics and Field Observations Wayne Thatcher, Elizabeth Hearn, Greg Hirth, Yuri Fialko Year: 2013 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
13054	Developing InSAR deformation map towards improved Community Geodetic Model Zhen Liu Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
13056	Using Mechanical Models to Test Community Fault Model Updates to the Western Transverse Ranges Region, CA: Application to the Ventura Special Fault Study Area Scott Marshall, Gareth Funning, Susan Owen, John Shaw Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
13057	Network Based Estimates of Noise in Geodetic Time Series Paul Segall Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
13061	A Collaborative Project: Rupture Dynamics, Validation of the Numerical Simulation Method Ruth Harris, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Michael Barall, Benchun Duan, Jeremy Kozdon, Nadia Lapusta, Shuo Ma, Brad Aagaard, Ralph Archuleta, Victor Cruz-Atienza, Luis Dalguer, Eric Dunham, Steven Day, Alice Gabriel, Yoshihiro Kaneko, Yuko Kase, David Oglesby, Kim Olsen, Christian Pelties, Daniel Roten Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
13062	Fragile Geologic Features in Southern California: Statistical Remnants and Representative Fragility Mark Stirling, Dylan Rood Year: 2013 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
13063	Quantifying variability of seismic source spectra derived from cohesive-zone models of earthquake rupture Yoshihiro Kaneko, Peter Shearer Year: 2013 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
13064	Imaging tremor activity in the San Andreas Fault near Cholame using a mini seismic array Abhijit Ghosh Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
13065	Indepth Study of the 2012 Brawley Sequence Donald Helmberger Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
13069	PBR Studies Important for Testing Cybershake, NGA and Hazard Maps Lisa Grant Ludwig, Thomas Jordan Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
13070	SCEC FlexiRAMP Paul Davis Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
13071	Transient Detection using PBO data with contributions to the CGM. Thomas Herring Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
13073	Collaborative Research: Assessing slip rate variations on the Garlock fault using newly developed luminescence sediment dating Edward Rhodes, James Dolan, Sally McGill Year: 2013 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
13074	Improvements and Applications of Earthquake Catalogs and 3-D Crustal Models to Advance Earthquake Predictability Research and SCEC Community Models Egill Hauksson Year: 2013 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted

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