Partnerships

Funding Agencies


	National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

Core Collaborative Groups


	Southern California Earthquake Center The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is a community of over 600 scientists, students, and others at over 60 institutions worldwide, headquartered at the University of Southern California. SCEC is funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a comprehensive understanding of earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere, and to communicate useful knowledge for reducing earthquake risk.
	San Diego Supercomputer Center SDSC provides an organizational home for technology and science research and deployment. Activities range from participation in the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid to hosting data for the Protein Data Bank to outreach and education activities and strategic applications collaborations which helps users maximize their use of SDSC resources.
	University of California, San Diego With more than a century of exploration and discovery in global sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is the world's preeminent center for ocean and earth research, teaching, and public education.
	San Diego State University As the Geological Sciences have evolved from a discipline dominated by field-mapping and qualitative interpretation into the quantitative, rigorous, and predictive science it is today, SDSU has been in the forefront. The science curriculum is enhanced by research, an important part of the mission of the SDSU Department of Geological Sciences.
	University of California, Santa Barbara Marine geophysics research at UCSB focuses on mid-ocean ridge processes, including ridge segmentation, axis discontinuities, crust formation and deformation, and hydrothermal vent systems. Our research also investigates plate motion history and underwater hydrocarbon seeps.
	Carnegie Mellon University The Quake project is a joint effort by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The project is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Community Modeling Environment Project at the Southern California Earthquake Center.
	URS Corporation URS Corporation is a fully integrated engineering, construction and technical services organization with the capabilities to support every stage of the project life cycle—from inception through start-up and operation to decommissioning and closure.
	University of Southern California Combines traditional geophysical disciplines such as seismology, geodynamics, and paleomagnetism with a modern "complex systems" approach to problems.
	USC Information Sciences Institute Information Sciences Institute is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, computer and communications technologies. A unit of the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI is one of the nation’s largest – and most successful -- university-affiliated computer research institutes.
	Stanford University As a world leader in Earth and environmental sciences and engineering, we will create, integrate, and transform fundamental understanding of Earth processes, and use that knowledge to help provide energy, water, and a safe and sustainable planet.

Participating Organizations


	TeraGrid TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eleven partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. Using high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the country. Currently, TeraGrid resources include more than a petaflop of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage, with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks. Researchers can also access more than 100 discipline-specific databases. With this combination of resources, the TeraGrid is the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.
	Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is a membership-governed organization that supports and promotes Earth science by developing and maintaining software for computational geophysics and related fields.
	Geosciences Network The NSF Workshop on Envisioning a National Geoinformatics System for the United States, held in Denver, CO on March 14, 2007, foresaw “…a future in which someone can sit at a terminal and have easy access to vast stores of data of almost any kind, with the easy ability to visualize, analyze and model those data.” GEON is developing a geoinformatics system as a step towards realizing this vision.
	National Center for Amospheric Research Through NCAR, scientists gain access to high-performance computational and observational facilities, such as supercomputers, aircraft and radar - resources researchers need to improve human understanding of atmospheric and Earth system processes.
	National Center for Supercomputer Applications For more than 20 years, NCSA has been a leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies. Building on this history of leadership, NCSA and its partners are at work on the Blue Waters project, which will provide the national research community with a sustained-petaflop supercomputer that is many times more powerful than the current resources available for non-classified scientific research.
	Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology The mission of the IRIS Consortium, its members, and affiliates is to, facilitate and conduct geophysical investigations of seismic sources and Earth properties using seismic and other geophysical methods, promote exchange of geophysical data and knowledge, through use of standards for network operations, data formats, and exchange protocols, and through pursuing policies of free and unrestricted data access, foster cooperation among IRIS members, affiliates, and other organizations in order to advance geophysical research and convey benefits from geophysical progress to all of humanity.
	Earthscope The EarthScope scientific community is conducting multidisciplinary research across the Earth sciences utilizing the freely accessible data from geophysical instruments that measure motions of the Earth's surface, record seismic waves, and recover rock samples from depths at which earthquakes originate.
	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ETH Zurich is an institution of the Swiss Confederation dedicated to higher learning and research. Together with the ETH Lausanne and four research institutes, it forms the federally directed, and to a major degree financed, ETH domain. The institutions of the ETH domain uphold their autonomy and identity on the basis of the ETH Federal Law and in the full awareness of their social, economic and cultural responsibility to the nation and its citizens.
	U.S. Geological Survey The USGS serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.
	Harvard University The research of our Structural Geology & Earth Resources Group bridges the disciplines of structural geology and seismology to investigate the nature of deformation in the Earth's crust. This involves the use of subsurface imaging, satellite remote sensing, and geologic methods to model the spatial and temporal interactions of fault systems in, and around, sedimentary basins. Our research has direct applications in earthquake hazards assessment, oil & gas exploration, and environmental conservation related to natural resource utilization. These activities demand extensive geologic and geophysical databases, as well as high-performance computing and visualization capabilities.
	California Geological Survey In April 1860 the California Legislature established the Geological Survey of California that has evolved during its 150 years of service, and several name changes, into today’s modern California Geological Survey (CGS). Of course, the earliest history of CGS has its founding roots entwined with the discovery of gold in 1848. CGS is dedicated to the fulfillment of its mission to provide scientific products and services about the state's geology, seismology and mineral resources that affect the health, safety, and business interests of the people of California. CGS geoscientists, engineers and support staff take great pride in upholding the heritage of an organization that has a 150 year legacy of providing the highest quality of scientific and engineering products and services to the State of California.