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
15096	Improving GPS Crustal Motion Map for Integrated Community Geodetic Model Zheng-Kang Shen Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15098	Offshore South-Central California for the Community Fault Model Christopher Sorlien Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15102	Testing the Global Earthquake Activity Rates (GEAR) Model: A Pathway to High-Resolution Global Testing Danijel Schorlemmer, Maximilian Werner Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15105	Impact of Uncertainty in Magnitude-Area Scaling Relations on BBP Broadband Simulations Andreas Skarlatoudis, Jeff Bayless, Paul Somerville Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation, Seismology	Report submitted
15107	Enhancements to the SCEC CFM: Database & delivery, earthquake simulator formats, & Statewide CFM John Shaw, Andreas Plesch, Philip Maechling Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15108	Recovering vertical and time-dependent deformation near Coachella Valley, California with InSAR David Schmidt, Xiaopeng Tong, Andrew Barbour, David Sandwell Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15110	Bounding the Rate of Moment Deficit on Faults in Southern California Paul Segall, Kaj Johnson Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15111	Hot and fast, cold and slow: Surface element thermometry of seismic slip James Evans Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
15112	Joint inversion of direct P and S waves, head waves and noise dispersion data for the San Jacinto fault region Clifford Thurber, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15113	Utilization and validation of CyberShake ground motions for the nonlinear performance-assessment of tall buildings Gregory Deierlein, Ting Lin Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15116	The Effects of Plasticity and the Evolution of Damage Zones in Earthquake Cycle Simulations Brittany Erickson Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15117	Ductile fracture in feldspar aggregates - Insights into the role of pore-fluid pressure on fault behavior in the lower crust Greg Hirth Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15119	Development of a broadband 3D pseudo-dynamic rupture generator for geometrically complex faults Kim Olsen Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15120	Robust Quantification of Earthquake Clustering: Overcoming the Artifacts of Catalog Uncertainties Ilya Zaliapin, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15127	Evaluating Active, Rapid Late Quaternary Fault Slip on the Mission Creek Fault near San Gorgonio Pass Kimberly Blisniuk, Gregory Balco, Warren Sharp, Katherine Scharer Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15132	The Mechanics of Tremors in the Deep San Andreas Fault Sylvain Barbot Year: 2015 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Simulators, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15135	Collaborative Research: High-precision cosmogenic burial and exposure dating (10Be, 26Al, 36Cl) on late Pleistocene fan surfaces to constrain long-term San Andreas fault slip rates Richard Heermance, Nathaniel Lifton Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15136	Implementation of Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV) Gauntlets on the Broadband Platform Nicolas Luco, Sanaz Rezaeian, Christine Goulet, Andreas Skarlatoudis, Jeff Bayless, Philip Maechling Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15137	Characterization of Induced micro-seismicity associating with one hydraulic fracturing experiment near the San Andreas fault, Central California Chen Ji Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project, Computational Science, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15138	A New Creep Instability at Intermediate Homologous Temperatures with Application to Slow Earthquakes and Non-Volcanic Tremor Charles Sammis, Terence Langdon Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report Overdue 03/15/16
15139	The Role of Climate in the Formation of Geomorphic Features Used for Fault Offset Measurement J Ramon Arrowsmith, Sinan Akciz, Lisa Grant Ludwig, Thomas Rockwell Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15140	Beyond Elasticity: Deformation Models Incorporating Off-fault Plasticity Kaj Johnson Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15142	Testing along-strike variations in slip rate along the Mission Creek and Banning strands of the southern San Andreas fault in the Indio Hills Whitney Behr Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15145	Investigating the Cosmogenic Nuclide in situ 14C as a Chronometer in Slip Rate Determinations Brent Goehring, Kimberly Blisniuk Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15147	Anticipating SCEC5: Towards a Community Rheology Model (CRM) of the Southern California Lithosphere Elizabeth Hearn, Yuri Fialko, Gary Fuis, Greg Hirth, Thorsten Becker, Wayne Thatcher Year: 2015 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15148	Collaborative Research: Modeling Crustal Deformation in and around San Gorgonio Pass Sally McGill, Richard Bennett, Joshua Spinler Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Communication, Education, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy, and Outreach (CEO)	Report submitted
15149	Paleoseismology of the tsunamogenic Long Point fault, Santa Catalina Island Simon Klemperer Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Geology, Seismology	Report submitted
15150	Numerically Testing Two Approaches of Extracting the Amplitudes of Ambient-Field Greenâ€™s Functions in the SCEC CVM-S4.26 Shuo Ma Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15152	Community Geodetic Model Workshop Jessica Murray, Rowena Lohman, David Sandwell Year: 2015 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15154	Continuing to Evaluate & Update Active 3D Fault Geometry in Special Fault Study Areas and to Improve the SCEC Community Fault Model Craig Nicholson Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15155	Effects of fault geometry on stressing rates and off-fault seismicity on the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto faults Michele Cooke Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
15156	Collaborative research: Stratigraphic Changes within Carpinteria and Goleta Slough Estuaries: A signal of Great Earthquakes on the Pitas Point Thrust Alexander Simms, Thomas Rockwell, Robert Peters Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Geology	Report submitted
15157	Alternative Rupture Basis for UCERF4 Glenn Biasi, Timothy Dawson Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15160	Fault Dynamics and Tsunamis in the Ventura Basin David Oglesby Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
15161	Modeling Rupture through the Brawley Seismic Zone Stepover: Can Ruptures Propagate between the San Andreas and Imperial Faults? Thomas Rockwell, David Oglesby, Aron Meltzner Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation	Report submitted
15163	Geochronology Infrastructure Michael Oskin, Thomas Guilderson, Susan Zimmerman, Tammy Rittenour, Lewis Owen, John Southon, Edward Rhodes Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15164	A systematic search for tremor using multiple mini seismic arrays near San Jacinto Fault Abhijit Ghosh Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15165	Updated Spatial and Temporal Mapping of the Geomorphic Evolution of Wheeler Ridge and Application to Blind Thrusts in California J Ramon Arrowsmith, Duane DeVecchio Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project, Earthquake Geology, Unified Structural Representation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15166	CSEP/USGS/GEM Workshop: Epistemic Uncertainties in Earthquake and Ground Motion Forecasts Maximilian Werner, Danijel Schorlemmer, Thomas Jordan, Andrew Michael, Marco Pagani, Morgan Page Year: 2015 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15167	Evaluating GPS constraints on InSAR-based velocity models Rowena Lohman Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15168	Assessing fault zone structure and permeability in regions of active faulting and ï¬‚uid injection: Can fault maps and structure help evaluate induced seismicity in southern California? Emily Brodsky, Thomas Goebel Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
15169	Ensemble Earthquake Forecasting Models for the 2010 Darfield, New Zealand, Earthquake Sequence Maximilian Werner, Matthew Gerstenberger, Maria Liukis, Warner Marzocchi Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15170	Estimating linear velocities, and earthquake and after slip parameters from continuous GPS time series Robert McCaffrey Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15172	SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Program Jamison Steidl Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Communication, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Education, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, and Outreach (CEO)	Report submitted
15176	Continued Development of OpenSHA/UCERF3 in Support of Operational Earthquake Forecasting, Hazard Assessment, and Loss Modeling Thomas Jordan, Edward Field Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15177	Toward a Framework for Ground Motion Simulation Validation using Attenuation Relationships. Part 1: Calibration Between NGA-West2 Predictions, Physics-Based Synthetics, and Data Ricardo Taborda Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
15179	Refining the late Quaternary slip rate of the Sierra Madre fault with relative and absolute dating of offset fans Reed Burgette, Katherine Scharer Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
15180	Long-term behavior of faults with heterogeneous strength Nadia Lapusta Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
15181	M 7.x SIV-Benchmark Simulations for greater L.A. Region Paul Mai, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Chen Ji Year: 2015 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Seismology, Source Inversion Validation	Report submitted
15182	Slip Rate of the Banning Fault at Mission Creek Sally McGill Year: 2015 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted

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