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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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Diego Melgar, University of Oregon

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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8/18/2023: NSF announces CRESCENT award

“The new CRESCENT and SCEC awards provide regional-scale platforms for scientists to advance frontier research on earthquake processes and enable partnerships to translate that research to improved public safety. CRESCENT and SCEC will also support major workforce development activities to train a broad and inclusive cross section of students and early-career scientists,” — Maggie Benoit, a program director in the Division of Earth Sciences.  Read the NSF press release here. Coverage from participating colleges:

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