Opportunity Information: Apply for USGS FA 19 0296
This grant opportunity is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Notice of Intent to make four collaborative cooperative agreement awards to specific university partners: the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Washington; the University of Oregon; and the California Institute of Technology. The work supports the project "Support and Improvement of ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System for the US West Coast 2019-2021" and continues the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program's long-running collaboration to operate and advance the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning (EEW) system across the West Coast. The basic purpose is to strengthen the seismic and geodetic monitoring infrastructure in high-risk regions so the system can detect earthquakes quickly and issue alerts after strong shaking has begun but before it reaches more distant locations, helping reduce injuries, fatalities, and property damage.
The scope for the 2019-2021 phase is both operational and developmental. On the operations side, the agreements support maintaining and expanding the underlying seismic and geodetic networks that feed ShakeAlert, including building new monitoring stations, upgrading existing stations, and improving the communications pathways that move data reliably and fast enough to be useful for early warning. On the development side, the effort emphasizes continued system testing, refinement of seismic algorithms used to detect events and estimate shaking intensity, and completing the integration of geodetic algorithms (which use ground deformation measurements to better characterize larger earthquakes). The work also includes creating tools to monitor ShakeAlert performance in near real time and to manage users, which is important as the system grows and more organizations rely on it for automated actions and public alerting.
Another key theme is ecosystem-building around the warning capability. The opportunity highlights encouraging private-sector development of EEW applications, reflecting the idea that warnings become more valuable when they can trigger practical actions in many settings (for example, industry, transportation, utilities, hospitals, and consumer-facing apps). The project also calls for coordinated training and education, indicating a focus on consistent messaging and preparedness so that users understand what alerts mean, what the system can and cannot do, and how to respond appropriately when warnings are received.
Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity from the Department of the Interior, USGS, using cooperative agreements rather than standard grants, which typically signals substantial agency involvement during project execution. The Funding Opportunity Number is USGS FA 19 0296 and the CFDA number listed is 15.808. Eligible applicants are public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education, though the notice specifies the intended awardees as the four named universities. The notice was created on July 25, 2019, with an original closing date of August 8, 2019. The anticipated number of awards is four, and the listed award ceiling is $21,412,881. Overall, the opportunity is centered on keeping ShakeAlert operationally robust while pushing technical improvements, expanding sensor coverage, strengthening user management and monitoring capabilities, and improving adoption through applications, training, and education.Apply for USGS FA 19 0296
- The Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent: Support and Improvement of ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System for the US West Coast 2019-2021" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.808.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 25, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 08, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $21,412,881.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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