Opportunity Information: Apply for USGS FA 17 0047
This funding opportunity is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior notice of intent to make a single cooperative agreement award to support the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) project hosted by the University of California. It is a discretionary grant-style award mechanism specifically structured as a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement and collaboration between the federal agency and the recipient during the period of performance (for example, coordination on technical priorities, deliverables, and integration of results into national hazard products and related USGS efforts).
The opportunity is identified as "Notice of Intent: Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)" under funding opportunity number USGS FA 17 0047, associated with CFDA number 15.807. The eligible applicant category listed is private institutions of higher education, and the announcement indicates an expected number of awards of one, reflecting that it is intended for a specific recipient rather than an open competitive solicitation. The posting date is December 15, 2016, with an original closing date of December 29, 2016, which is consistent with a time-limited administrative window for the intended award action. The listed award ceiling is $8,116,355, signaling the maximum anticipated federal funding level for the agreement under this notice.
Programmatically, the purpose of the award is to continue or support SCEC as a major, community-oriented earthquake science and hazards research center. The project is organized around four core objectives: (1) modeling the fault system, (2) understanding earthquake processes, (3) characterizing seismic hazards, and (4) reducing seismic risk. Together, these objectives span the full pipeline from foundational earth science data collection and synthesis, to advanced modeling and forecasting, to translation of research outputs into practical tools and information that can be used by engineers, planners, emergency managers, and other decision-makers.
Within those broad themes, the notice describes a wide range of topical activities. This includes gathering basic data relevant to earthquakes and fault systems (such as geological, geodetic, and seismological observations), and compiling those data into shared "Community Models" that standardize and disseminate information for broad scientific use. It also emphasizes development of physics-based models of earthquake rupture and ground motion, which aim to represent the underlying physical processes driving earthquakes and the shaking they produce, rather than relying only on empirical relationships. In addition, the work scope includes improving probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), which is the backbone of many building code and infrastructure design applications, and advancing operational earthquake forecasting, which focuses on time-dependent estimates of earthquake likelihood that can inform situational awareness and preparedness.
A key feature of the opportunity is its emphasis on applying results, datasets, and models to reduce seismic risk, not merely to advance scientific understanding in isolation. In practice, that application-oriented focus typically means improving the credibility, usability, and accessibility of hazard products; strengthening the link between research and real-world risk management; and supporting the broader earthquake resilience ecosystem in Southern California and beyond. Overall, the notice frames SCEC as an integrative effort that brings together data collection, community model building, computational simulation, hazard assessment, forecasting, and stakeholder-relevant risk reduction into a coordinated research and implementation program under USGS partnership.Apply for USGS FA 17 0047
- The Department of the Interior, Geological Survey in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent: Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.807.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 15, 2016.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 29, 2016. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $8,116,355.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Private institutions of higher education.
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