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EAR Division Of Earth Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | July 27, 2022 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | June 12, 2025 |
| Award Number: | 2221947 |
| Award Instrument: | Continuing Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Jennifer Wade
jwade@nsf.gov (703)292-4739 EAR Division Of Earth Sciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | August 1, 2022 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2026 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $1,179,443.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $1,185,443.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2023 = $386,711.00 FY 2024 = $257,507.00 FY 2025 = $137,639.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
1156 HIGH ST SANTA CRUZ CA US 95064-1077 (831)459-5278 |
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1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA US 95064-1077 |
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| NSF Program(s): |
GVF - Global Venture Fund, Petrology and Geochemistry, Geophysics, Marine Geology and Geophysics, EAR-Earth Sciences Research, XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro |
| Primary Program Source: |
01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050, 47.079 |
ABSTRACT
Despite the global urgency to mitigate the risk from geohazards, there is still limited understanding of the fundamental drivers behind earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and landslides, and thus their predictability in time and space. The SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions) initiative is a community-driven effort that strives to address this need directly by coordinating and enabling fundamental research on the underlying physical and chemical characteristics and processes specifically in subduction zones. SZ4D seeks to answer the following questions: When and where do large damaging earthquakes happen? How do trans-crustal processes initiate eruptions at arc volcanoes? How do events within Earth?s atmosphere, hydrosphere, and solid Earth generate and transport sediment across subduction zone landscapes and seascapes? What fraction of a subduction zone?s energy budget goes into building and shaping subduction zone land- and seascapes? Answering these questions will require a substantial infrastructure investment in the form of instrumental arrays accompanied by support for field, modeling and laboratory science.
The expansive vision of SZ4D needs cost estimates, time phasing and project planning in order to prepare for full submission to the Foundation and any partnering agencies. This proposal lays out a plan to accomplish this development quickly. The major components of this proposed SZ4D catalyst effort are: 1) A staffed center that will organize the work and build capacity in the Geosciences (BECG) following a Collective Impact model. 2) Technical project management to realistically evaluate costs and trade-offs of the instrumentation options. 3) Preparatory work for the geological, modeling and laboratory facilities which include workshops and modest engineering design work. All of these specific activities were strategically selected because they directly affect high-priority elements of the draft implementation plan and have identifiable, tractable development needs that should be addressed prior to launch of a full SZ4D program.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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