(FOA)-Human-Environment
and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS); August 18,
2020
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Program is
to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, and/or
consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or
environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects about a broad
range of topics may be appropriate for support if they enhance fundamental
geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to
societal problems and concerns. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s
contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically
grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated
geographical research. National Science Foundation's mandate is to support
basic scientific research. Support is provided for projects that are most
effective in grounding research in relevant theoretical frameworks relevant to
HEGS, that focus on questions that emanate from the
theoretical discussions, and that use scientific methods to answer those
questions. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will
enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and
methods, and that will have positive broader impacts that benefit
society.
The
HEGS Program recognizes that geography is a broad discipline that includes the
natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. However,
HEGS does not fund research that is solely humanistic, non-science. A proposal
to the HEGS Program must explain how the research will contribute to geographic
and spatial scientific theory and/or methods development, and how the results
are generalizable beyond the case study. It should be noted that
HEGS is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF. Therefore,
it is critical that research projects submitted to the Human-Environment and
Geographical Sciences Program illustrate how the proposed research is relevant
and important to people and societies. A
proposal that fails to be responsive to these program expectations will be
returned without review.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
20-547
Closing
Date:
August
18, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505745&org=SBE&from=home
Contact
Information
Jacqueline M.
Vadjunec
(703)
292-7064