Events

Spring 2026 Mentor Training

Advancing Research Excellence for Through Intentional Mentorship for a Stronger Geoscience Workforce!

Statewide California Earthquake Center – SCEC and CRESCENT are co-facilitating an interactive training designed to help mentors develop skills for engaging in productive, culturally responsive, research mentoring relationships– relationships that optimize the success of both mentors and mentees. This training is built on the evidence-based Entering Mentoring curriculum from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER).

This workshop is open to researchers at all career stages who are interested in strengthening their mentoring skills.

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New CRESCENT Product Releases

We are excited to announce the release of two new open resources developed through CRESCENT: the Earthquake Catalog Repository and Viewer and the Cascadia Ground Failure Viewer. These platforms provide curated datasets and interactive visualization tools for exploring seismicity and ground-failure processes in Cascadia, supporting research, education, and hazard assessment.

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February 2026 Newsletter

Read about: the launch of the new Tsunami Sources for Hazard Awareness Special Interest Group, new and evolving CRESCENT cyberinfrastructure tools, working group activities and appointments, topical workshop opportunities, the 2026 Seed Grant call for proposals, professional development and technical short course offerings, partnership convenings, recent publications and recognitions, CLiP webinars, upcoming events… and more in the latest edition of Seismic Moment — CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter.

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TSHA SIG Announcement

We are delighted to announce the formation of a new CRESCENT Special Interest Group – the Tsunami Sources for Hazard Assessment SIG (TSHA SIG).

See the TSHA webpage for more information and opportunities to contribute and follow the work of this SIG.

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CLiP Webinar Series 2025-26

Coordinated in collaboration with CRESCENT, the CLiP Webinar Series showcases advances in seismic hazard assessment, infrastructure design, and earthquake resilience initiatives. These monthly webinars are free to the community and will be of particular interest to practicing engineers, industrial scientists, and policy makers.

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QGIS Toolkit Product Release

CRESCENT is pleased to share a new set of open-source tools for building realistic 3D fault surfaces directly in QGIS (a free, cross-platform GIS application). These tools are designed to help researchers create non-planar, data-constrained fault geometries from standard geologic and geophysical inputs, including geologic maps, balanced cross-sections, seismic images, and earthquake hypocenters.

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Tsunami Forecasting Breakthrough Earns Gordon Bell Prize

We’re thrilled to share that a team led by Stefan Henneking and Omar Ghattas at UT Austin has been awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their work on real-time tsunami forecasting in Cascadia. The author team also includes CRESCENT senior personnel Alice-Agnes Gabriel, from UC San Diego, who leads our Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Cycles, and Tsunamis (DET) working group and showcased this work at our annual meeting in Seattle last month.

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