Current Grants
Geospatial and Geologic Site Terms for Nonergodic Ground Motion Models for California and Utah: Collaborative Research with Tufts University and Merrimack College. USGS: EHP 2025
(September 2025 through September 2026)
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Using “Did You Feel It?” Data to Map Spatially Variable Site Amplification in Glaciated Terrain, Including Data from the 2024 New Jersey Earthquake: Collaborative Research with Tufts University and Merrimack College USGS: EHP 2025
(September 2025 through September 2026)
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Completed Grants
HVSR Site Terms for nonergodic ground motion models: Collaborative research with Tufts University and Merrimack College.
(September 2023 through September 2024) USGS Award No. G23AP00396
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Basin effects in the Central and Eastern United States: Collaborative research with Tufts University and Merrimack College
(September 2023 through September 2024) USGS Award No. G23AP00390
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Innovative data-driven frameworks for geospatial ground failure models
(September 2022 through September 2023) USGS Award No. G22AP00048
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Rapid Classification of Transportation Infrastructure Damage and Loss Estimation using Image Libraries, Mobility Data, and Machine Learning
(September 2020 through September 2021) Tufts University DISC Seed Grant
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Benchmark data development to classify damage for natural disasters relief efforts
(2020 through 2021) NGA Academic Research Program NURI Award
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Characterization of soil amplification in glaciated terrains: Collaborative Research with Tufts University and Boston College. USGS: EHP Program 2020
(September 2020 through September 2021) USGS Award No. G20AP00029
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Characterization of Soil Amplification in Glaciated Terrains: Collaborative Research with Boston College
(June 2020 through May 2021) USGS Award No. G20AP00040
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Updating the Geospatial Liquefaction Database and Model
(January 2020 through December 2020) USGS Award No. G20AP00029
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
National and Global Liquefaction Loss Model for PAGER
USGS Award #G19AP00023
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Building Collapse Detection Using Satellite Imagery After Earthquake Events: Collaborative Research with Tufts University and Boston University
USGS Award #G19AP00057
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
A Hierarchical Bayes Inversion Approach for Site Characterization Using Surface Wave Measurements
USGS Award #G18AP00034
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Validation of a Geospatial Liquefaction Model for Noncoastal Regions Including Nepal
USGS Award #G16AP00014
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
A Decision and Design Framework for Multi-Hazard Resilient and Sustainable Buildings: Tufts Subaward from Northeastern University
NSF Award#1455450
Principal Investigator: Mehrdad Sasani (Northeastern University)
Near Surface Sediment Model and Site Response for Boston: Collaborative Research with Tufts University and Boston College
USGS NEHRP Award G14AP00060
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise and John Ebel (Boston College)
A Geospatial Liquefaction Model for Rapid Response and Loss Estimation
NSF Award #1300781
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise; Co-Principal Investigator: Eric Thompson
Identifying and Modeling Complex Site Response Behavior, CMMI Award
NSF Award #1000210
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise; Co-Principal Investigator: Luis Dorfmann
Incorporating Site Effects in Ground Motion Prediction Equations
USGS NEHRP Award #G11AP20033
Near Surface Velocity Structure and Site Response at Parkfield, California
USGS NEHRP Award #G09AP00062
Post-Liquefaction Reconnaissance Using Remote Sensing
USGS NEHRP Award #G10AP00025 and #G10AP00026
Collaborative Research with Tufts University and University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geohazards Database Consortium
Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment
PIRE: Developing International Protocols for Offshore Sediments and their Role in Geohazards: Characterization, Assessment, and Mitigation
NSF Award #0530151
Principal Investigator: Don DeGroot; Co-Principal Investigator: Thomas Sheahan, Jason DeJong, Brian McAdoo, Laurie Baise; Organization: University of Massachusetts Amherst
CAREER: Integrated Research and Education in Regional Evaluation of Seismic Hazards
NSF Award #0547190
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Offshore Wind Energy
A startup grant provided by Peter and Denise Wittich Family Fund for Alternative Energy Research at Tufts University
2002 Au Sable Forks Earthquake Ground Motions
USGS NEHRP Award #04HQGR0166 and 04HQGR0167
Regional Wave Propagation in New York: Collaborative research with Boston University and Tufts University
Regional Liquefaction Hazard Mapping
USGS NEHRP Award #05HQGR0103
Numerical Modeling of Moderate Magnitude Earthquakes, CMMI Award
NSF Award #0409311
Principal Investigator: Laurie Baise
Boston Subsurface Project
Tufts Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment and the Tufts University Academic Technology Internal Grant
Liquefaction Hazard Mapping for Boston, Massachusetts
USGS NEHRP Award #02HQGR0036 and #02HQGR0040
Collaborative research with William Lettis & Assoc., Inc. and Tufts University