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
21002	An open source code for 3-D measurement of ground deformation from optical image correlation Jean-Philippe Avouac Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21008	Conditions that promote or inhibit deep and distant induced earthquakes in southern California hydrocarbon basins Thomas Goebel Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21009	Developing comprehensive alternative CFM representations of active thrust systems in the Santa Barbara Channel and Ventura basins, Western Transverse Ranges John Shaw Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, SCEC Community Models (CXM)	Report submitted
21010	Generation of Broadband Ground Motion from Dynamic Rupture Simulations: A Group Modeling Approach towards better Characterizing Seismic Hazard for Engineering Applications Kyle Withers, Shuo Ma, Luis Dalguer, Yongfei Wang, Thomas Ulrich, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Christine Goulet, Dunyu Liu, Benchun Duan, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Elif Oral, Domniki Asimaki Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motions	Report submitted
21017	A Bayesian Framework for the Joint Estimation of Corner Frequency and Rupture Directivity for Southern California Earthquakes Daniel Trugman Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
21018	Enhancements to the Community Fault Model (CFM) and its IT infrastructure to support SCEC science Scott Marshall, John Shaw, Philip Maechling Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, SCEC Community Models (CXM), Seismology	Report submitted
21019	Modeling of postseismic deformation following the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Roland Bürgmann, Eric Fielding, Kang Wang, Zhen Liu Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21020	Using focal mechanisms within regions of off-fault deformation to constrain active fault configuration of the southern San Andreas fault Michele Cooke, Jack Loveless, Scott Marshall Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), San Andreas Fault System (SAFS), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21023	Expand the 3D Fault Set and Geologic Surface Library to Help Update & Improve SCEC Community Fault and Deformation Models Craig Nicholson Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), San Andreas Fault System (SAFS), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21025	SCEC Community Geodetic Model Workshop Michael Floyd, Ekaterina Tymofyeyeva Year: 2021 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21026	Development of GNSS auxiliary time series products and velocities for the CGM; and post-Ridgecrest survey GNSS data analysis Michael Floyd, Thomas Herring Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21032	Roles of foreshocks in triggering large earthquakes and stress drop validation Xiaowei Chen Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
21034	Seismicity Along the Newport-Inglewood Fault Using Dense Arrays Robert Clayton Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Seismology	Report submitted
21035	Time-series InSAR analysis using ARIA standardized InSAR products in support of the Community Geodetic Model David Bekaert, Gareth Funning Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21039	A workflow for homogenization of seismic velocity models in Southern California Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), SCEC Community Models (CXM), Seismology	Report submitted
21041	Localization of seismicity prior to large earthquakes in California Ilya Zaliapin, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
21043	Damage zones of the Elsinore and Superstition Hills Faults: Evidence of a moment-dependent bifurcation in off fault energy dissipation processes? William Griffith, Thomas Rockwell Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21045	Finite-Source Based Stress Drop Estimates for the 2019 Ridgecrest, CA Sequence Douglas Dreger, Taka'aki Taira Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21047	Machine Learning for Classifying Patterns of Earthquake Seismicity: Forecasting, Nowcasting, and Tsunami Early Warning John Rundle Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21048	Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEDC) 2021 Operations Robert Clayton Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Seismology	Report submitted
21049	Global Earthquake Activity Rate Model David Jackson Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), San Andreas Fault System (SAFS), Seismology	Report submitted
21051	Statistical evaluation of CSEP Forecasts Frederic Schoenberg Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP)	Report submitted
21053	Validating the SCEC community rheology model with seasonal loading and surface deformation phase shifts Roland Bürgmann, Baptiste Rousset Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21055	Resolving finite source attributes of moderate and small magnitude earthquakes of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Wenyuan Fan Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21057	Detecting Low-frequency Earthquakes with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network Gregory Beroza Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
21058	Impact of Contact and Interface Modeling on Precarious Rock Fragilities – Phase 3: Material Properties and Soil Christine Wittich Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)	Report submitted
21059	Updating CVM-S 4.26 in Salton Trough Using Explosion Waveforms Patricia Persaud Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Ground Motions, SCEC Community Models (CXM), San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)	Report submitted
21060	NASA Collaborative Proposal: Crustal Deformation Time Series from InSAR and GNSS David Sandwell, Zhen Liu, Yehuda Bock, Alejandro Gonzalez-Ortega Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21065	Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) Brittany Erickson, Junle Jiang, Michael Barall Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21068	Collaborative Research: Characterizing shallow fault friction with slow slip hematite deformation experiments and hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry Alexis Ault, Greg Hirth Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21069	Incorporation of Salton Sea Imaging Project data into joint inversions for Vp and Vs models and model assessment via wavefield simulations Clifford Thurber Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), SCEC Community Models (CXM), Seismology	Report submitted
21074	Earthquake accelerogram synthesis with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks Zachary Ross Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motions	Report submitted
21078	Towards modeling spatially coherent ground motions using simulation-based coherency functions Elnaz Seylabi, David McCallen, Arben Pitarka Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motions, Seismology	Report Overdue 03/15/22
21079	Earthquake simulation-based evaluation of the existing shallow crust models at Garner Valley in Southern California Elnaz Seylabi, Domniki Asimaki Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motions, Seismology	Report submitted
21080	Improving the Sustainability of SCEC Scientific Software using Software Best Practices Philip Maechling Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motions	Report submitted
21082	Understanding the spatial variation of high frequency radiation from earthquakes in Southern California Rachel Abercrombie, Peter Shearer Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motions, Seismology	Report submitted
21083	A Technical Activity Group for the Community Stress Drop Validation Study Annemarie Baltay, Rachel Abercrombie, Taka'aki Taira, Clara Yoon, William Ellsworth, Christine Ruhl Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motions, Seismology	Report submitted
21084	Investigating the influence of dip angle in rupture propagation along branch fault systems using dynamic models Roby Douilly Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), SCEC Community Models (CXM), San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)	Report submitted
21086	Developing earthquake simulators for UCERF4 Bruce Shaw Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM)	Report submitted
21087	Shallow Elastic Structure in the upper 100 m from Colocated Seismic and Pressure Data Toshiro Tanimoto Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motions, SCEC Community Models (CXM), Seismology	Report submitted
21088	Evolution of frictional shear resistance in response to rapid variations of normal stres Ares Rosakis Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motions, Seismology	Report submitted
21091	Can a Lack of Lake Loading Explain the Earthquake Drought on the Southern San Andreas Fault System? Matthew Weingarten Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Earthquake Geology, San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)	Report submitted
21095	Experimental Investigation of Multi-scale Flash Weakening Frederick Chester, Judith Chester Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21098	Synthesis of fault geometry, seismicity, and deep structural fabric to constrain Community Fault (CFM) and Rheology (CRM) Models Debi Kilb, Vera Schulte-Pelkum Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21100	Constraining a long-term paleolake and paleoseismic history using deep boreholes at the ancient Lake Cahuilla, Coachella, California Seulgi Moon, Sourav Saha, Thomas Rockwell, Katherine Scharer Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, San Andreas Fault System (SAFS)	Report submitted
21103	Sequencing the CVM: Looking for Lithotectonic Blocks in Southern California in Seismic Models Using Machine Learning Laurent Montesi, Vedran Lekic Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): SCEC Community Models (CXM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21105	Constraining friction properties of mature low-stressed faults such as SAF Nadia Lapusta Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21106	Optimizing and further developing simulations of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip Nadia Lapusta Year: 2021 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
21107	Shallow Fault Slip Along the Locking to Creeping San Andreas Fault Transition Zone at Parkfield from Lidar Topographic Differencing and InSAR Displacements Chelsea Scott Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, San Andreas Fault System (SAFS), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
21108	A Collaborative Project: Investigating properties of small and large earthquakes on geometrically heterogeneous faults Camilla Cattania, Ahmed Elbanna Year: 2021 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted

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