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8/6/2024: August 2024 Newsletter
CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter – Out Now! Learn about: Cascadia Paleoseismology Fieldwork, Topical Workshops, Seed Grant Awardees, Geoscience Education & Inclusion Twinning Program, Partnerships & Applications Workshop, recent media mentions and presentations, upcoming events… and more in the latest edition of “Seismic Moment” – CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter. Read the full newsletter here
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2023-24 Seed Grant Awards
The CRESCENT Seed Grant Program has the dual goals of broadening community participation and increasing the breadth of scientific investigations related to the center’s goals. The center invited the community to participate through a proposal call to address key scientific challenges identified through CRESCENT’s three major pillars. This year we had 42 seed grant applicants of which 14 were funded.
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7/11/2024: UofO College of Arts and Sciences News Article
Scientists, community leaders discuss resilience at CRESCENT workshop Held on June 27 in Portland, the inaugural Partnerships and Applications Workshop welcomed local, state and federal agencies; tribal organizations; emergency managers; utilities; industry; nonprofits; and educational institutions, as well as staff to Gov. Tina Kotek, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici. Read the full article here
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5/17/2024: Oregon Delegation USGS Funding Request
The University of Oregon asked the Oregon delegation to make funding for the US Geological Survey (USGS) subduction zone science budget a priority for the FY25 federal budget.Â
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Twinning Student Application
Eligibility Preferred Qualification The application period closes April 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time. For questions contact GEI Program Manager Shannon Fasola (sfasola@uoregon.edu). 2025-2026 Projects Earthquake detection using machine learning tools in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico Mentors:Urbi Basu, New Mexico Tech Akram Mostafanejad, EarthScope Consortium Quantifying infrastructure resilience to volcanic hazards in Cascadia Mentors:Einat Lev, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Nathaniel Klema, Fort Lewis College Enhancing Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Operations Through Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization Mentors:Jonathan Weiss, NOAA/NWS/Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Helen Janiszewski, University of Hawaii at Manoa Assessing and Sharing Risk with a Rapid Earthquake Damage Estimation Tool for the Cascadia Region of Western Canada Mentors:Mike Brudzinski,
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10/18/2023: Web Site Launch!
Welcome to our newly designed web site! Explanations of CRESCENT’s mission, the organizational structure, and planned community activities can be found here!
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10/01/2023: Director’s Welcome
Welcome Letter from Director Diego Melgar: “…CRESCENT…represents a grassroots effort on the part of scientists, educators, and community members to come together and speak with one voice. To organize and unify efforts across our region so that we can build new knowledge, share it openly, create a sense of community and belonging, and build up our earthquake culture.”
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9/11/2023: UofO OVPRI Announcement
The first National Science Foundation-funded subduction zone earthquake science center is a large-scale collaborative effort led by the University of Oregon.
The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) will conduct shoreline-crossing earthquake hazards research focused on the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ), diversify the geoscience workforce, provide skills training, and improve connections across the subduction zone geohazards community of practice.
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