Notice of Intent to Award - Research in Earthquake Hazard Mitigation | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This funding opportunity is a Notice of Intent to Award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), an agency within the Department of the Interior, for work focused on earthquake hazard mitigation. It announces the government s intent to make a single cooperative agreement award to the University of California, San Diego to conduct joint research activities that support USGS mission needs in seismology and earthquake risk reduction. Because it is a notice of intent, it is not framed as an open competitive call for proposals; instead, it signals that the agency plans to proceed with an award to a specific institution for a defined set of research objectives.

The opportunity is identified as USGS FA 16 0097 and falls under the discretionary funding category, using a cooperative agreement as the funding instrument. A cooperative agreement typically indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency during the project, meaning USGS staff are likely to collaborate with the award recipient on technical direction, coordination, data or network integration, and progress monitoring. The program aligns with the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category and is associated with CFDA number 15.808, reflecting USGS research support activities.

The central purpose of the award is research aimed at infrastructure improvements to the Global Seismographic Network (GSN). The GSN is a worldwide system of seismographic stations that provides high quality seismic data used for detecting and characterizing earthquakes, monitoring Earth structure and dynamics, supporting tsunami and hazard warning capabilities, and enabling scientific research. Infrastructure improvement research in this context commonly involves enhancing station reliability and uptime, upgrading or evaluating sensors and digitizers, improving power and communications resilience at remote sites, modernizing field hardware and telemetry, strengthening cybersecurity or data integrity protections where relevant, and refining operational practices that keep continuous seismic data flowing in near real time. In practical terms, the work supports better earthquake detection and characterization and strengthens the long term performance of a global monitoring backbone that many hazard and research applications depend on.

The posting lists an award ceiling of 353,000 dollars and anticipates one award. The eligible applicant category is public and state controlled institutions of higher education, consistent with the named recipient being a public university. The opportunity was created and posted on April 28, 2016, with an original and current closing date of May 12, 2016. The timeline and single expected award reinforce that the announcement is primarily informational, documenting the planned award action and its key parameters rather than inviting broad submissions.

In summary, this USGS notice describes a planned cooperative agreement with the University of California, San Diego to collaboratively conduct research that advances earthquake hazard mitigation by improving the infrastructure supporting the Global Seismographic Network. The intended outcome is a more robust and capable seismic monitoring system that enhances the quality, continuity, and usefulness of seismic observations used by USGS and the broader scientific and hazard management communities.

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