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
12001	A framework for validation of ground motion simulations emphasizing predictive power and use of seismic effective stress analyses of soil deposits Brendon Bradley Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Dynamic Rupture Code Validation, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report Overdue 12/31/00
12004	Intact rock and regolith as fragile geological features and nonlinear attenuation Norman Sleep Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
12005	Reexamining the effects of material heterogeneity on the slip distribution of the 1994 Northridge earthquake John Loveless, Brendan Meade, Carl Tape Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
12007	Investigating tectonic tremor beneath the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield with the PASO array Clifford Thurber Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
12012	The Length to which an Earthquake will go to Rupture: Information Gathering Steven Wesnousky, Glenn Biasi Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
12016	SoSAFE- San Jacinto: Evaluating slip distribution along the northern San Jacinto fault zone and the possibility of ruptures jumping across step-overs. Nate Onderdonk, Sally McGill, Tom Rockwell Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation	Report submitted
12017	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: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
12018	Seismicity Patterns, Swarms, and Foreshocks in Southern California Peter Shearer Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
12020	Quantifying the variability of finite earthquake source processes based on 1-point and 2-point statistics of kinematic source parameters Seok Goo Song, Luis Angel Dalguer Year: 2012 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Community Modeling Environment, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction	Report Overdue 12/31/00
12022	An Event-Based Earthquake Predictability Experiment Allan Rubin Year: 2012 Category: Individual 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
12024	A Search for Seismicity Patterns that Reflect Mechanical Erosion of Locked Patches Due to Creep Allan Rubin, Maximilian Werner Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
12026	Collaborative Research: High resolution seismic profiling (CHIRP) of Holocene folding deformation associated with large uplift events on the Ventura Avenue Anticline at Pitas Point Thomas Rockwell, Neal Driscoll, Graham Kent Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
12030	Wave propagation in complex, nonlinear media Daniel Roten Year: 2012 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Computational Science, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction	Report Overdue 12/31/00
12032	ALLCAL – An Earthquake Simulator for All of California Steven Ward Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Simulators, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
12034	Improvements and Applications of Earthquake Catalogs and 3-D Crustal Models to Advance Earthquake Predictability Research and SCEC Community Models Egill Hauksson Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
12036	2012 SCEC Proposal: Code Development for Continuous and Automated Monitoring of the Horizontal Displacement Gradient Tensor Field in Southern California William Holt Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
12037	Iterative Improvement of CVM-H 11.9 Using Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods Carl Tape, John Shaw, Andreas Plesch, Emanuele Casarotti Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Computational Science, Unified Structural Representation	Report submitted
12040	Fault Zone Widths as a Parameter in Seismic Hazard Estimates Bruce Shaw Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
12042	A Dense 400-Sensor Survey in Los Angeles Paul Davis Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology	Report submitted
12043	Workshop: Crustal Deformation Modeling Brad Aagaard, Thorsten Becker, Andrew Freed, Eric Hetland, Rowena Lohman, Mark Simons, Charles Williams Year: 2012 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
12044	New Slip Rate estimates from Wallace Creek and Phelan Creek Paleoseismic Sites. Re-sampling, Re-dating and Re-Synthesizing Lisa Grant Ludwig, J Ramon Arrowsmith Year: 2012 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
12046	HAZUS Probabilistic Loss Estimates for California: Evaluation of Loss Variation for the Next Generation Attenuation Relationships Hope Seligson Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
12047	US-Japan Collaboration on Strong Ground Motion Prediction Techniques Paul Somerville, Arben Pitarka, Jeff Bayless Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
12050	Paleoseismic investigation along the inferred northernmost extent of the 1857 rupture: Do large southern San Andreas Fault ruptures extend into the creeping section? Nathan Toke, J Ramon Arrowsmith Year: 2012 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
12051	Fault mechanics and structure during laboratory stick-slip experiments: Can we infer fault properties and stress from acoustic emission statistics? Thorsten Becker, Charlie Sammis Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
12053	Stress field models from Maxwell stress functions Peter Bird Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
12056	Numerical models of stress transfer from plate motion to mature transform faults Yuri Fialko Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
12057	Thermally Driven Shear Localization in Fault Zones James Rice Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
12058	Validation of elastic spectral correlations and inelastic spectra from ground motion simulations Jack Baker Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
12059	Effects of Heterogeneities on Earthquake Statistics Karin Dahmen, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
12060	Continuing Studies of Tremor in Central and Southern California Zhigang Peng Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
12061	Kinect Technology Game Play Mimicking Seismic Sensor Deployment Debi Kilb Year: 2012 Category: Communication, Education, and Outreach Proposal Focus Area(s): Communication, ELCA, Education, K-14, Preparedness, and Outreach (CEO)	Report submitted
12062	The Effect of Off-Fault Damage on the Propagation of an Earthquake Rupture Charles Sammis Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology	Report submitted
12064	Improving High-Frequency Site Response with Ambient Noise Victor Tsai Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, National Partnerships through EarthScope, Seismology	Report submitted
12066	Ground Motion (0 – 5 Hz) Validation of Dynamic Heterogeneous Rupture Models on a Strike-Slip Fault Shuo Ma, Dudley Andrews, Ruth Harris Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
12067	1987 SUPERSTITION HILLS EARTHQUAKE: A TRIGGERED EVENT WITH A COMPLEX NUCLEATION AND RUPTURE DYNAMICS Ralph Archuleta Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
12069	Properties and implications of off-fault yielding during dynamic earthquake ruptures Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
12070	Analysis of fault rupture processes by earthquake-like loading in the laboratory Ze’ev Reches, David Lockner Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Simulators, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
12071	Heterogeneity, rotations and volumetric strain near faults from focal mechanism data Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time	Report submitted
12073	COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL: PBR SCIENCE FOR SCEC4: VALIDATION OF GROUND MOTION PREDICTION AND SIMULATIONS Glenn Biasi, Lisa Grant Ludwig Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Simulation Validation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
12074	Temporal changes of earthquake rate and seismic velocity in southern California following the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake Zhigang Peng Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Seismology	Report submitted
12078	CSEP Participation, Model development, and Testing in Support of Operational Earthquake Forecasting Matthew Gerstenberger, David Rhoades Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Seismology	Report Overdue 12/31/00
12080	Do the Wetlands of California Preserve a Record of Paleotsunami? Brady Rhodes, Matthew Kirby Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Communication, Earthquake Geology, Education, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Preparedness, and Outreach (CEO)	Report submitted
12083	Enhanced Earthquake Early Warning and Response Through GPS/Seismic Integration Yehuda Bock Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Ground Motion Prediction, Seismology, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
12085	Towards a unifying statistical framework for identification and analysis of earthquake clusters Ilya Zaliapin, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Fault and Rupture Mechanics	Report submitted
12086	Dynamic rupture models incorporating a new laboratory-based normal stress-dependent constitutive friction law David Oglesby, Nick Beeler, Brian Kilgore Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science, Fault and Rupture Mechanics, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted
12088	Fragile Geologic Features in New Zealand and Southern California: New Age Constraints and Comparison to Seismic Hazard Models Mark Stirling, Dylan Rood Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction	Report submitted
12090	Application of Scenario Physics-Based Ground Motion Simulations to Improve Seismic Risk Assessment for Regional Building Inventories Abbie Liel Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface, Ground Motion Simulation Validation	Report submitted
12092	Collaborative Proposal: Support for Integration of Automated Geodetic Transient Detection Effort into CSEP Rowena Lohman, William Holt Year: 2012 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability, Stress and Deformation Over Time, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
12093	Resolving a 14ka slip-rate, Coachella Valley segment, San Andreas fault Patrick Williams Year: 2012 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities	Report submitted

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