CRESCENT Spring Virtual Session - Updates on 2024-25 Seed Awards | April 21, 2026
Jill Elizabeth
Good morning,
Please plan to join us for a CRESCENT Spring Virtual Session - Updates on 2024-25 Seed Awards - on April 21, 2026, from 12-1p PDT via zoom. The goal for the Seed Grant program is to expand the reach beyond the CRESCENT research plan. This virtual session aims to connect seed grant recipients to the CRESCENT community to learn and converse about current projects.
Please register here to attend. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a unique link to log on to the meeting.
The session will feature short talks by the following 2024-25 Seed Grant Recipients with time for questions.
Patrick Bassal (The Ohio State University) and Chukwuebuka Nweke (University of Southern California) “Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses of 2001 Nisqually Ground Failures to Validate Ground Motion Simulations”
Obinna Ozioko (Portland State University) “Constraining paleoearthquake characteristics from landslide geomorphology for the crustal Gales Creek Fault, Oregon”
Elizabeth Sherrill (Indiana University) “Towards Linking Coseismic Slip to Interseismic Coupling at Cascadia”
Lee Liberty (Boise State University) “Seismic imaging of the Portland Hills fault through downtown Portland”
Elizabeth Madden (San Jose State University) “Energy budget analyses of scenario earthquake ruptures at Cascadia”
Erick Velasco Reyes (Oregon State University) “Refining the Cascadia Earthquake Record at Netarts Bay, OR with Ghost Forest Dendrochronology, Wiggle-matching and New Statistical Age Models”
Yujie Zheng (University of Texas at Dallas) “Precise Localization and Measurement of Slow Slip Events in Central Cascadia with InSAR”
To learn more about past projects, please see the 2023-24 Seed Grant reports posted here: https://cascadiaquakes.org/2024/07/16/2024-seed-grant-awards/
Please note that the Request for Proposals for the 2026-27 CRESCENT Seed Grant Program is now open. For the application, guidelines, and timeline, please visit https://cascadiaquakes.org/science/#smallgrants
Please reach out if you have any questions.
Best,
Jill
Jill Elizabeth
Assistant Director, CRESCENT
University of Oregon* | Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center
*in Eugene, OR: Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people