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
15001	Broadband ground motion simulations for the Canterbury earthquakes with nonlinear effective-stress modelling of surficial soil Brendon Bradley Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15003	Nonlinear attenuation of strong seismic waves and ambient intact rock and tectonic stress as fragile geological features Norman Sleep Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
15004	Statistical Study of Induced Seismicity from Wastewater Disposal in California from mid 1980s to Present Mark McClure Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Computational Science, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15005	Seasonal Loading, Deformation and Seismicity in California Roland Bürgmann Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15006	Organizational Meetings for the SCEC Utilization of Ground-Motion Simulations (UGMS) Committee Thomas Jordan, C.B. Crouse Year: 2015 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15007	Pinon Flat Observatory: Continuous Monitoring of Crustal Deformation Frank Wyatt, Duncan Agnew Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15008	Improvement of Earthquake Simulators: Focus on On-Fault Aftershocks and Forecasting John Rundle Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Simulators, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15009	The role of seismogenic depth on rupture across stepovers and damage zone thickness Jean-Paul Ampuero Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Dynamic Rupture Code Validation, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15012	Renewal:Using Borehole Data as a Direct Measure of Stress Directions and Variability to Help Constrain the SCEC Crustal Stress Model for Southern California Joann Stock Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15017	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 Egill Hauksson, Peter Shearer Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15018	Analysis of a Dense Broadband Survey Across the Los Angeles Basin Robert Clayton, Jascha Polet, Elizabeth Cochran, Paul Davis Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15020	Improving and Validating Earthquake Stress Drop Estimates Rachel Abercrombie Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15020	Improving and Validating Earthquake Stress Drop Estimates Rachel Abercrombie Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15024	Exploring Temporal Variability in Seismic Velocity at the Salton Sea Geothermal Field and its Implication for Induced Seismicity Taka'aki Taira Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15028	Role of fault geometry on the spatial distributions of the slip budget Scott Marshall, Michele Cooke, Elizabeth Madden, Phillip Resor Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15029	Development of a Unified Structural Representation for Central California John Shaw, Andreas Plesch Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project, Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15030	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: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15031	Laboratory Experiments on Fault Shear Resistance Relevant to Coseismic Earthquake Slip Terry Tullis Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Simulators, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15035	Improving High-Frequency Site Response with Ambient Noise Victor Tsai Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): EarthScope, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology	Report submitted
15036	Basin Response to Virtual Earthquakes on the San Jacinto Fault and the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Fault Marine Denolle, Frank Vernon Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology	Report submitted
15037	Making the Community Fault Model Version 5 Accessible to Earthquake Simulators Terry Tullis, Michael Barall Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Simulators, Unified Structural Representation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15038	Fragile Geologic Features: Constraints on Near-Fault Ground Motions Mark Stirling, Rob Buxton, Glenn Biasi Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
15049	Workshop Supplement to Support Deployment of an OEF System For California Edward Field Year: 2015 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15050	Mechanisms for Stick-Slip, Dynamic Triggering, and Acoustic Emissions in Granular Fault Gouge Jean Carlson Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Community Modeling Environment, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
15052	A Working Group on Modeling and Integration of the Geotechnical Layer in SCEC Simulations Domniki Asimaki, Jonathan Stewart, Ricardo Taborda, John Anderson Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation, Seismology	Report submitted
15057	CSEP participation, including the Canterbury experiment, software for efficient testing, and hybrid models. Matthew Gerstenberger, David Rhoades Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology	Report submitted
15058	Continued Development of Workflows and Packages for Using Finite Element Models for Geodetic Inversions Charles Williams Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15059	Multi-scale stress and strain-rate model analysis for southern California Thorsten Becker Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15060	Implementation and validation of the newly developed rupture model generator at SCEC broadband platform Seok Goo Song, Luis Dalguer Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15061	Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) 2015 Operations Robert Clayton Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15062	Effect of geothermal operations on earthquake source processes in the Salton Sea geothermal field Xiaowei Chen Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15065	Seismicity, Swarms, and Strain Changes in Southern California Peter Shearer Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15068	Community Stress Model (CSM) Workshop Bruce Shaw, Jeanne Hardebeck, Thorsten Becker Year: 2015 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15069	Including Scattering in the UCSB Broadband Modeling Method Ralph Archuleta Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15070	Developing earthquake simulators for use in seismic hazard estimates: UCERF3 and extended UCERF3 fault systems Bruce Shaw Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15073	Improving the Community Geodetic Model with GPS and InSAR Yuehua Zeng, David Sandwell, Javier Gonzalez-Ortega, Bridget Smith-Konter Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15077	Comprehensive detection of injection-induced seismicity in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field Zhigang Peng Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15078	Reconciling supershear transition of dynamic ruptures with low fault prestress and implications for the San Andreas Fault Nadia Lapusta Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation	Report submitted
15079	High Resolution Geodetic Measurements of Deformation throughout the Ventura Special Fault Study Area Region Scott Marshall, Susan Owen, Gareth Funning Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15080	Tsunami Hazard in Southern California from earthquakes on the Ventura-Pitas fault and fold system John Shaw, Hong Kie Thio Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15081	A systematic measurement of shear wave anisotropy in southern California Zhigang Peng Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15082	Reprocessing and geophysical fingerprinting of vertical GPS time series in Southern California: Toward an integrated crustal deformation model Adrian Borsa, David Sandwell, Duncan Agnew, Thorsten Becker Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Community Modeling Environment, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15086	Advancing time series comparison and analysis for application to the Community Geodetic Model Thomas Herring, Michael Floyd Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15088	A New Paradigm for Modeling Fault Zone Inelasticity: A coupled granular-bulk framework incorporating spontaneous localization and grain fragmentation Ahmed Elbanna Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Dynamic Rupture Code Validation, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15089	Integrating the Rectilinear Community Fault Model with Polyviscous Block Models of Time-Dependent Interseismic Deformation Brendan Meade Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15090	Near source broadband ground-motion modelling of the Canterbury aftershocks and implications for assessing engineering metrics Caroline Holden, Anna Kaiser Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Earthquake Simulators, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation, Source Inversion Validation	Report submitted
15091	A Collaborative Project: Rupture Dynamics, Validation of the Numerical Simulation Method Ruth Harris, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Michael Barall, Benchun Duan, Eric Dunham, Jeremy Kozdon, Nadia Lapusta, Shuo Ma, Daniel Roten, Zheqiang Shi, Brad Aagaard, Ralph Archuleta, Xiaofei Chen, Luis Dalguer, , Ahmed Elbanna, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Yoshihiro Kaneko, Yuko Kase, David Oglesby, Kim Olsen, Zhenguo Zhang Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Dynamic Rupture Code Validation, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
15092	Characterizing offshore southern and central California ocean bottom seismometer data to inform an offshore Central California Seismic Project (CCSP) deployment Monica Kohler, Victor Tsai Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15094	Strike-slip Faulting Energy Release and Supershear Rupture Thorne Lay Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology	Report submitted
15095	Rupture Dynamics Code Validation 2015 Workshop Ruth Harris, Ralph Archuleta Year: 2015 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Dynamic Rupture Code Validation, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted

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