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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
16001	Nonlinear attenuation of strong seismic waves, intact rock as a fragile geological feature, and modulation of tectonic strain by strong ground motions Norman Sleep Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Seismology	Report submitted
16006	Seasonal stress modulation on active California fault structures Roland Bürgmann Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Geodetic Transient Detection, Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
16012	Broadband ground motion simulations for the Canterbury earthquakes with nonlinear effective-stress modelling of surficial soils Brendon Bradley Year: 2016 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16018	Dynamic and Kinematic Modeling of Branch Faulting in Strike-Slip Faults Jeff Bayless, Paul Somerville, Percy Galvez Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16020	Testing and Reconciling Stress Drop and Attenuation Models for Southern California Rachel Abercrombie, Peter Shearer Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Geodetic Transient Detection, Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Seismology	Report submitted
16021	Inter-Period Correlations of SCEC Broadband Platform Fourier Amplitudes and Response Spectra Jeff Bayless, Andreas Skarlatoudis, Paul Somerville, Fabio Silva Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16023	Properties and dynamics of different types of seismicity clusters in southern California Ilya Zaliapin, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
16026	Laboratory Experiments on Fault Shear Resistance Relevant to Coseismic Earthquake Slip Terry Tullis Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
16027	Ventura Special Fault Study Area Workshop Scott Marshall, James Dolan, Thomas Rockwell, John Shaw Year: 2016 Category: Workshop Proposal Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation (USR)	Report submitted
16028	Modeling and implementation of a stochastic geotechnical layer for physics-based ground motion simulations Domniki Asimaki, Ricardo Taborda, Alan Yong Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment (CME), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16036	A Vs30-based site response module for modifying ground motion time-series on reference site conditions Domniki Asimaki Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16037	Precision Tests of Stress Transfer Calculations in Earthquake Simulators Michael Barall, Terry Tullis Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Computational Science (CS), Earthquake Simulators, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP)	Report submitted
16038	Towards consensus time series analysis for the Community Geodetic Model Thomas Herring, Michael Floyd Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Geodetic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
16039	Fragile Geologic Features and Semi-Ergodic PSHA Mark Stirling, Chris Van Houtte, Glenn Biasi Year: 2016 Category: Travel Only Proposal (SCEC Annual Meeting) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Earthquake Geology, Ground Motion Prediction (GMP)	Report submitted
16041	Timing a late Holocene earthquake cluster on the Ash Hill fault, Eastern California Shear Zone Christine Regalla Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation (SoSAFE), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
16042	Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) 2016 Operations Robert Clayton Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP), Geodetic Transient Detection, Seismology	Report submitted
16048	Tuning Dynamic Models to Estimate Varying Fault Friction, Asthenospheric Traction, and Lithospheric Stress Peter Bird Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment (CME), Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP)	Report submitted
16049	Crustal Architecture of the Western Transverse Ranges, Southern California Thomas Rockwell Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Special Fault Study Area) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Tectonic Geodesy, Unified Structural Representation (USR)	Report submitted
16050	SCEC Community Data Products of Relocated Seismicity and Improved Focal Mechanisms, for Resolving Fine-Scale Fault Structures and State of Stress in Southern California Egill Hauksson Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Seismology, Unified Structural Representation (USR)	Report submitted
16053	Using low frequency earthquake families on the San Andreas as deep creep meters Amanda Thomas, N. Beeler, David Shelly, Roland Bürgmann Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
16054	High-Frequency Path and Source Parameters Determined from Recorded Ground Motion in Central California Ralph Archuleta, Jorge Crempien Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project (CCSP), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Seismology	Report submitted
16056	A Collaborative Project: Rupture Dynamics, Validation of the Numerical Simulation Method Ruth Harris, Jean Paul Ampuero, Michael Barall, Benchun Duan, Eric Dunham, Shuo Ma, Brad Aagaard, Ralph Archuleta, Eric Daub, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Yoshihiro Kaneko, Yuko Kase, Jeremy Kozdon, Kim Olsen, Zhenguo Zhang, Daniel Roten, Nadia Lapusta, Zheqiang Shi, Ahmed Elbanna, Luis Dalguer, David Oglesby, Arben Pitarka Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment (CME), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP)	Report submitted
16057	Holocene geologic slip rate for the Mission Creek Fault at the Three Palms Site in the Indio Hills Whitney Behr Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation (SoSAFE), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
16059	Physical controls of spontaneous and triggered slow-slip and stick-slip at the fault gouge scale David Goldsby Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
16061	Effect of geothermal operations on earthquake source processes in the Salton Sea geothermal field Xiaowei Chen Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Geodetic Transient Detection, Seismology	Report submitted
16062	Borehole-derived Constraints on the SCEC Community Stress Model Joann Stock, Patricia Persaud Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Geodetic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
16063	Simulation of Kinematic Rupture for Multi-Segment Faults Based on Dynamic Rupture Simulations Jorge Crempien, Ralph Archuleta Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16065	Continuing to Evaluate 3D Fault Geometry in Special Fault Study Areas and to Update & Improve the SCEC Community Fault Model Craig Nicholson Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Unified Structural Representation (USR)	Report submitted
16066	Testing for slip rate changes on the Sierra Madre fault Reed Burgette, Nathaniel Lifton, Katherine Scharer Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation (SoSAFE), Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP)	Report submitted
16067	An Examination of the Correlations Between Different Goodness-of-Fit Metrics Based on a Large Dataset of Ground Motion Simulation Validations Ricardo Taborda Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16068	CSEP participation, including the Canterbury experiment, testing of non-Poisson models, and effects of catalogue deficiencies Matthew Gerstenberger, David Rhoades, Annemarie Christophersen, David Harte, Maria Liukis Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Seismology	Report submitted
16071	Effect of geothermal operations on earthquake source processes in the Coso geothermal field using borehole stations and improved velocity model Xiaowei Chen, Qiong Zhang, Robert Clayton Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Geodetic Transient Detection, Seismology	Report submitted
16072	Assembly of the Community Geodetic Model and GPS Survey of the Cerro Prieto Fault David Sandwell, Alejandro Gonzalez-Ortega, Jose Javier Gonzàlez-Garcìa, Wayne Thatcher Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Geodetic Transient Detection, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
16073	Pinon Flat Observatory: Continuous Monitoring of Crustal Deformation Frank Wyatt, Duncan Agnew Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Seismology, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
16074	High-resolution seismic imaging of the very shallow crust Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project (CCSP), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Seismology	Report submitted
16075	Dynamic and Kinematic Modeling of Backthrust Faulting on the Ventura Fault System: Validation using the San Simeon Earthquake Percy Galvez, Jeff Bayless, Paul Somerville Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Central California Seismic Project (CCSP), Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP)	Report submitted
16076	Characterizing seismic site conditions in southern California based on topographically induced stress and bedrock fractures Seulgi Moon, Lingsen Meng Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment (CME), Geodetic Transient Detection, Ground Motion Prediction (GMP)	Report submitted
16079	Earthquake Simulators: Statistical Methods, Fractal Faults and Forecasting John Rundle Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for Interseismic Simulation and Modeling (CISM), Computational Science (CS), Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP)	Report submitted
16083	Steady and time-dependent geodetic strain rate maps for California Robert McCaffrey Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Geodetic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Overdue 03/15/17
16084	CERRO PRIETO-SAN JACINTO FAULT ZONE: MISSING SLIP DISCOVERED NEAR US-MEXICO BORDER Phillip Hogan, Thomas Rockwell, Scott Lindvall Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP)	Report submitted
16089	Global Earthquake Activity Rate Model Yan Kagan, David Jackson Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP), Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability (EFP), Seismology	Report submitted
16093	Surface Topography Effects in Three-Dimensional Physics-Based Deterministic Ground Motion Simulations in Southern California Jacobo Bielak, Ricardo Taborda, Doriam Restrepo Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment (CME), Computational Science (CS), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted
16096	Depth Dependent In Situ Crustal Stress Models With Implications For Fault Strength In Southern California Karen Luttrell, Bridget Smith-Konter Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Geodetic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
16097	Paleoseismology of the Santa Cruz-Catalina Ridge fault zone and San Clemente fault zone, Southern California Continental Borderland Simon Klemperer Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Geology, Geodetic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Unified Structural Representation (USR)	Report Overdue 03/15/17
16100	Impact of atmospheric models in Southern California on InSAR contribution to the CGM Rowena Lohman Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Aseismic Transient Detection, Geodetic Transient Detection, Tectonic Geodesy	Report submitted
16103	Assessing CGM uncertainties for deformation modeling in Southern California Mark Murray Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Geodetic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT), Tectonic Geodesy	Report Overdue 03/15/17
16104	Detailed analysis of earthquake directivity in the San Jacinto Fault zone Jeff McGuire, Yehuda Ben-Zion Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Seismology	Report submitted
16106	Rheological Mixing Laws for Application to the Community Rheology Model Greg Hirth, Mark Behn Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Data Gathering and Products) Focus Area(s): Community Modeling Environment (CME), Geodetic Transient Detection, Stress and Deformation Over Time (SDOT)	Report submitted
16108	The effect of roughness on the rupture of small faults and the up-scaling of lab friction laws Bradford Hager Year: 2016 Category: Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Simulators, Fault and Rupture Mechanics (FARM), Seismology	Report submitted
16110	Demonstrations of the Efficacy of the BBP Validation Gauntlets for Building Response Analysis Applications Nicolas Luco, Sanaz Rezaeian, Gregory Deierlein, Farzin Zareian, Ting Lin, Fabio Silva, Philip Maechling Year: 2016 Category: Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory) Focus Area(s): Earthquake Engineering Implementation Interface (EEII), Ground Motion Prediction (GMP), Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)	Report submitted

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