This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The purpose of this award is to construct new Ocean Bottom Seismometers to be deployed to the Cascadia margin as part of a joint Earthscope/Margins program to understand better the mechanisms and significance of normal earthquakes, slow earthquakes, episodic tremor and slip and other seismic/geodetic phenomena.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
0964937
Program Officer
Bilal U. Haq
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2009-10-01
Budget End
2012-09-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2009
Total Cost
$1,310,000
Indirect Cost
Name
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Woods Hole
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02543