The Soga Research Group has been awarded a Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP) project from the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). The research team will use the funding to examine the feasibility of using a new measurement system they have developed for long-term monitoring of buried gas pipelines that are potentially vulnerable to ground deformation across faults and landslides. The CAAP program supports university research and technological developments by graduate and PhD students that will improve the safety of the nation’s energy pipelines and promote industry investment in these solutions. The system developed by UC Berkeley will be tested at a PG&E site, and a commercialization plan for the system for pipeline monitoring will be developed thereafter.