SCEC Awards Database

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
14001	Nonlinear attenuation of basin waves in Greater Los Angeles and ambient intact rock and regolith as fragile geological features Norman Sleep Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
14002	Proxy metrics for ground motion simulation validation: fling parameters Jack Baker Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
14006	Time-dependent block and deformation model for California Robert McCaffrey Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14008	Collaborative Research: Documentation of Tsunami Deposits in the Carpinteria and Goleta Slough Estuaries: A signal of Great Earthquakes on the Pitas Point Thrust Alexander Simms, Thomas Rockwell, Robert Peters, Bruce Jaffe, Bruce Richmond Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14012	Delayed stress transfer with polyviscous rheologies in evolved three-dimensional fault systems Brendan Meade Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14013	Earthquake Rupture and Tsunami Simulations: Ventura-Pitas Point Fault System Steven Ward Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Earthquake Geology, Earthquake Simulators, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14014	Community Geodetic Model Workshop Jessica Murray, Rowena Lohman, David Sandwell Year: 2014 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14015	Updating Active 3D Fault Geometry in Special Fault Study Areas and Improving the SCEC Community Fault Model Craig Nicholson Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14018	Angularity, Fragmentation, Heating, and Localization-- Strengthening and Weakening in Granular Fault Gouge Jean Carlson Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14020	Methodology for Validating Median Values and Aleatory Variability of Broadband Platform Ground Motion Simulations Jeff Bayless, Andreas Skarlatoudis, Paul Somerville Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Earthquake Simulators, Ground Motion Simulation Validation, Source Inversion Validation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14022	Evaluation of Attenuation Models (Q-Vs Relationships) used in Physics-Based Ground-Motion Earthquake Simulation through Validation with Data and Comparisons with NGA Ricardo Taborda Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
14023	Contributions to the SCEC CSM: A finite-element model of the southern California lithosphere Elizabeth Hearn Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Simulators, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14024	Community Stress Model (CSM) Workshop Jeanne Hardebeck, Brad Aagaard, Thorsten Becker, David Sandwell, Bruce Shaw, John Shaw Year: 2014 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Dynamic Rupture Code Validation, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14026	Multi-scale observations of seismic anisotropy as a constraint for stress and deformation along the San Andreas Fault Meghan Miller, Thorsten Becker Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14027	Embedded geodynamic stress model of the southern California crust Thorsten Becker, Thomas Parsons Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14028	Validating site response predictions in deterministic physics-å_based ground motion simulations Dominic Assimaki, Ricardo Taborda Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
14030	Improvement of Earthquake Simulators and Evaluating Forecast Skill John Rundle Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Simulators, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14031	Improving the Community Geodetic Model with GPS and InSAR David Sandwell, Xiaopeng Tong, Jose Javier Gonzalez-Garcia, Bridget Smith-Konter, Yuehua Zeng Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14032	Evaluation of CVM-SI.26 Perturbations Integration Involving Undergraduate Computer Science and Graduate Earth Sciences and Engineering Students Ricardo Taborda Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
14033	Joint seismotectonic and source spectra analysis of the Ventura Basin and San Gorgonio Pass SCEC Special Fault Study Areas, southern California Egill Hauksson, John Shaw Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14038	An Earthquake Simulator for UCERF3 Steven Ward Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Simulators, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14039	Workshop: Crustal Deformation Modeling Brad Aagaard, Thorsten Becker, Andrew Freed, Eric Hetland, Rowena Lohman, Paul Segall, Mark Simons, Charles Williams Year: 2014 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
14040	Using Mechanical Models to Test Ventura Special Fault Study Area Alternative Fault Models Scott Marshall, Gareth Funning, Susan Owen Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14041	Seal Beach Wetlands: A Potential Paleoseismic and/or Tsunami Record for Southern California Brady Rhodes, Matthew Kirby Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): CEO, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14044	Testing Recurrence Models for a Simple Plate Boundary Fault: Paleoseismic Study of the Imperial Fault in the Region of Large 1940 Displacement Thomas Rockwell, Yann Klinger Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
14045	Seismicity, Swarms, and Strain Changes in Southern California Peter Shearer Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14047	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: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14049	A High Resolution Lake Cahuilla Chronology to Constrain Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas System Thomas Rockwell, Ray Weldon Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
14051	Rupture Dynamics Code Validation 2014 Workshop Ruth Harris, Ralph Archuleta Year: 2014 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
14053	Developing earthquake simulators for use in seismic hazard estimates Bruce Shaw Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Simulators, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14054	A New Creep Instability at Intermediate Homologous Temperatures with Application to Slow Earthquakes and Non-Volcanic Tremor Charles Sammis Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14055	Deformation and Fault Slip Rates in the Ventura Basin and Western Transverse Ranges Kaj Johnson Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14058	Bounding the Rate of Moment Deficit on Faults Paul Segall, Kaj Johnson Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14059	Source Inversion Validation (SIV) Workshop Paul Mai, Danijel Schorlemmer, Morgan Page Year: 2014 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Source Inversion Validation	Report submitted
14060	Forecasting focal mechanisms and assessing their skill David Jackson, Yan Kagan Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology	Report submitted
14061	Prediction uncertainty in kinematic source inversion Jean-Paul Ampuero Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Source Inversion Validation, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14063	Physics Based Models of Slow Slip Events and Possible Earthquake Triggering Paul Segall Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Earthquake Simulators, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14064	San Gorgonio Pass SFSA workshop Michele Cooke, Doug Yule, David Oglesby Year: 2014 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14066	Collaborative Research: Relating fault-slip gradients to distributed deformation in the Eastern California Shear Zone Michele Cooke, Michael Oskin Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
14069	Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) 2014 Operations Robert Clayton, Ellen Yu Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Seismology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
14070	Trimming of the UCERF 3 Logic Tree with Portfolio Loss Exceedance Curves Keith Porter Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14073	Numerical models of stress transfer from plate motion to mature transform faults Yuri Fialko Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
14074	Defining asperities on faults from spatial variations in fault gouge thickness: Implications for fault strength and rupture mechanics James Kirkpatrick Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
14077	Constraining critical fault structures and mechanics in the Imperial Valley, California using InSAR observed surface deformation Elizabeth Madden, Michele Cooke, Mariana Eneva Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14082	Seismicity cluster anomalies in relation to different loadings and large earthquakes Ilya Zaliapin, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14083	The Influence of Fault Roughness and Damage Zones in 3D Earthquake Cycle Simulations Brittany Erickson, Steven Day Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
14086	A High-Resolution Study of Microearthquakes on the San Andreas Fault at SAFOD Charles Sammis Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
14089	Laboratory Experiments on Fault Shear Resistance Relevant to Coseismic Earthquake Slip Terry Tullis Year: 2014 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
14090	Performance of Triangular Fault Elements in Earthquake Simulators Terry Tullis, Michael Barall Year: 2014 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Source Inversion Validation, Unified Structural Representation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
14091	Broadband ground motion simulations for the Canterbury earthquakes with nonlinear effective-stress modelling of surficial soils Brendon Bradley Year: 2014 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted

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