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.

Project reports for SCEC-funded awards can be submitted through the SCEC Proposals dashboard.

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SCEC ID	Proposal Information	Project Report
25052	Feature Enhancements to the Broadband Platform: Site Response Modules and Ground Motion Models Chukwuebuka Nweke Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Ground Motions (GM), Research Computing (RC)	Report Due 03/14/26
25053	The Interplay of Seismic and Aseismic Fault Slip During Earthquake Swarms in California and Nevada Daniel Trugman, Yu Jiang Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25057	Integrating a multi-parameter 3D thermal model of California and Nevada toward an open-sourced Community Thermal Model Andrew Zuza, Daniel Trugman Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Plate Boundary System (PBS), Research Computing (RC)	Report Due 03/15/26
25062	Identifying Potential Seismogenic Structures in the Northern San Andreas Plate Boundary Fault System Matthew Herman, Kevin Furlong Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Plate Boundary System (PBS), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25063	Experimental Investigation of Coseismic Fault Re-strengthening Xiaofeng Chen Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM)	Report Due 03/15/26
25103	Integrated geodetic study of creep events on the Imperial Fault Kathryn Materna Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25108	High Resolution Catalogs of Template Earthquakes and Focal Mechanisms for Resolving Fine-Scale Fault Structures and Crustal Rheology Egill Hauksson Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25121	Updating the SCEC Geologic Slip-Rate Database and Assessing Potential Data Gaps Sally McGill, Scott Marshall, Alex Hatem Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Earthquake Geology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25123	Temporal and spatial creep variability: Detecting decadal changes in fault behavior in Northern California Roland Bürgmann, Taka'aki Taira, Danielle Lindsay Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25133	Integrating friction into the Community Rheology Model Alexis Ault, Sylvain Barbot, Caroline Seyler Year: 2025 Category: Community Workshop Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/14/26
25134	Community Stress Drop Validation Project 2025 Workshops Annemarie Baltay, Rachel Abercrombie Year: 2025 Category: Community Workshop Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/14/26
25137	Evaluation and Expansion of the statewide SCEC Community Fault Model Scott Marshall, Andreas Plesch, John Shaw, Philip Maechling Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Plate Boundary System (PBS), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25139	Update and Re-evaluation of the Earthquake Hazards in the Santa Barbara-Ventura Area: Science Workshop & Field Trip in Commemoration of the 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake Craig Nicholson, Thomas Rockwell, Chen Ji Year: 2025 Category: Community Workshop Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Earthquake Geology, Seismology	Report Due 03/14/26
25141	Leveraging operational OPERA DISP-S1 product archive to expand and refine time-series InSAR analysis in support of the Community Geodetic Model Simran Sangha, Marin Govorcin, Gareth Funning Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25154	Joint Characterization of Transient Deformation and Repeating Earthquakes in California Junle Jiang, Taka'aki Taira Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25156	Adjoint ruptures with slip-weakening friction for dynamic source inversions and sensitivity analysis Eric Dunham, Wenqiang Zhang Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motions (GM), Research Computing (RC)	Report Due 03/15/26
25166	Potency-weighted scoring metrics for assessing CSEP Forecasts Frederic Schoenberg Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Applied Science Implementation (ASI), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Research Computing (RC)	Report Due 03/15/26
25188	Numerical Simulations of the Change in Stress-State Inboard of the Mendocino Triple Junction Xiaochuan Tian, Magali Billen, Michael Oskin Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Research Computing (RC), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/15/26
25189	High-resolution imaging and earthquake locations of the Mendocino Triple Junction through Eikonal tomography and relocation by combining seismic stations and distributed acoustic sensing arrays Ettore Biondi Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Ground Motions (GM), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25192	Detailed VP and VS Model, and Seismicity Catalog of the Mina Deflection Region of the Central Walker Lane from a Rapid Nodal Deployment Patricia Persaud Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Plate Boundary System (PBS), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25198	Investigating Along-Fault Variation of Shallow Inelastic Damage of the San Andreas Fault Folarin Kolawole Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM)	Report Due 03/15/26
25202	Spatiotemporal interpolation and correction of perturbations in GNSS time series and velocity products for the Community Geodetic Model Michael Floyd, Thomas Herring Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25203	A Community Velocity Field Exercise and improvements to documentation and user needs for the CGM Michael Floyd, Ekaterina Tymofyeyeva, Kathryn Materna, Katherine Guns Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Capability Building (CCB), Community Earth Models (CEM), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25205	3-D structure of the transition from convergent to transform margin in northern California as a proxy for San Andreas Fault System evolution Debi Kilb, Vera Schulte-Pelkum Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Plate Boundary System (PBS), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25209	Making California-region seismic velocity models accessible in multiple formats Clifford Thurber Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Research Computing (RC), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25210	Precise dating earthquakes on the Elsinore fault at Glen Ivy Marsh based on archivedradiocarbon samples, and publication of the results Thomas Rockwell, Michael Oskin Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Earthquake Geology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/14/26
25225	Measuring differential uplift rates across multiple fault strands in the San Gorgonio Pass region using thermoluminescence thermochronology Nathan Brown Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Plate Boundary System (PBS), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/15/26
25227	Space-time neural point process for earthquake forecasting Kelian Dascher-Cousineau Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report Due 03/14/26
25229	Incorporating data from H/V observations into joint body wave-surface wave tomography: proof of concept Clifford Thurber, Hao Guo Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Research Computing (RC), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25231	Identifying seismicity bursts across California to probe fault-zone conditions Wenyuan Fan Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/15/26
25232	Improvement and Harmonization of Optical Observations of the Coseismic Fault Zone Deformation Towards an Enhanced Understanding of the Shallow Fault Zone Behavior Jean-Philippe Avouac Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM)	Report Due 03/15/26
25246	Earthquake rupture and creep in shallow earth materials William Griffith, Katherine Scharer, Alexis Ault Year: 2025 Category: Community Workshop Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25250	Investigating Near-fault Ground Motions with Dense Arrays Xiaofeng Meng, Camilo Ignacio Pinilla Ramos, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Ground Motions (GM), Seismology	Report Due 03/14/26
25253	Analyzing Key Earthquake Questions with Nodal Array of Arrays around the San Jacinto Fault Peter Shearer, Wenyuan Fan, John Vidale Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Research Computing (RC), Seismology	Report Due 03/14/26
25259	OneSciencePlace Cyberinfrastructure Developments in Support of SCEC Research Amit Chourasia, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Philip Maechling Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Capability Building (CCB), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Research Computing (RC)	Report Due 03/14/26
25260	Using both waveform coherence and complexity to cluster microearthquakes Wenyuan Fan, Peter Shearer Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Research Computing (RC), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25262	Cracking the Klamaths: A not-so-rigid block linking the Walker Lane to the Mendocino Triple Junction Michael Oskin, Kathleen Rodrigues Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Plate Boundary System (PBS), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/15/26
25264	Extending the Geologic Framework Model to Northern California Michael Oskin Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Earthquake Geology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25265	Marine geohazard assessment in the Outer California Borderland: fault network and mass wasting investigation Jillian Maloney, Andrea Fabbrizzi Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Capability Building (CCB), Earthquake Geology, Plate Boundary System (PBS)	Report Due 03/14/26
25266	Determination of Shallow Crustal Structure in Northern California, the Bay Area, and Community Model Validation Using Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity, Receiver Functions, and Gravity Fan-Chi Lin, Taka'aki Taira Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Ground Motions (GM), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25270	Fault architecture, geomorphic expression, and mineralogy of the Northern Calaveras Fault Christie Rowe, Rich Koehler Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Earthquake Geology, Plate Boundary System (PBS)	Report Due 03/15/26
25273	Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) Valere Lambert, Brittany Erickson Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Research Computing (RC), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/15/26
25274	Simulating the evolution of fault zone structure in 2D fully dynamic earthquake cycle simulations with continuum brittle damage Yihe Huang Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report Due 03/15/26
25275	GNSS and InSAR Integration for 3-D Deformation Field and Time Series in California Zheng-Kang Shen, Zhen Liu Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Plate Boundary System (PBS), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Due 03/15/26
25276	Modeling potential seismic rupture of the SAF creeping segment Nadia Lapusta Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Plate Boundary System (PBS), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25281	Decoding Complex Rupture Propagation in Branch Fault Systems of the San Andreas Fault: A Machine Learning Approach with Physics-Based Multi-Cycle Simulations Abhijit Ghosh, Roby Douilly, David Oglesby Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Research Computing (RC), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25285	Depth-dependent Evolution of Fault Zones and the Search for Informative Observables Ahmed Elbanna Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Research Computing (RC), Seismology	Report Due 03/15/26
25286	Continued Development of OpenSHA to Support Next-Generation Earthquake Rupture Forecasts and Facilitate User Adoption Kevin Milner, Philip Maechling, Edward Field Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Applied Science Implementation (ASI), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Research Computing (RC)	Report Due 03/15/26
25288	Adapting the Segment Anything Model for Offset Landform Mapping Cassandra Brigham, Chelsea Scott, Ramon Arrowsmith, Samuel Johnstone Year: 2025 Category: Collaborative Research Project (Multiple Investigators / Institutions) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Plate Boundary System (PBS), Research Computing (RC)	Report Due 03/15/26
25290	Incorporating Abundant Earthquake Data from Densified Permanent Seismic Networks and Temporary Nodal Array into Local Earthquake Tomography to Improve 3-D Seismic Velocity Structure in the Mendocino Triple Junction Region Hao Guo Year: 2025 Category: Individual Research Project (Single Investigator / Institution) Focus Area(s): Community Earth Models (CEM), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report Due 03/14/26

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