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Important information about NSF’s implementation of the revised 2 CFR

NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website. These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.

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Important information for proposers

All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in this funding opportunity and in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. It is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that the proposal meets these requirements. Submitting a proposal prior to a specified deadline does not negate this requirement.

Supports fundamental research that examines how human behavior interacts with environmental and social processes, advancing geographical theory and geospatial methods through rigorous, impactful studies.

Supports fundamental research that examines how human behavior interacts with environmental and social processes, advancing geographical theory and geospatial methods through rigorous, impactful studies.

Synopsis

The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research encompasses diverse research traditions and methodologies. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable research that advances geographical and geospatial sciences. Because the National Science Foundation's mandate is to support fundamental scientific research, the HEGS program cannot fund research that takes as its primary goal humanistic interpretations or findings that are not generalizable or reproducible. HEGS welcomes proposals that utilize quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods in novel ways. However, a proposal that applies geographical or geospatial methods to a geographic problem without proposing how that problem provides an opportunity to make a theory-testing or theory-expanding contribution to geographical science, broadly defined, will be returned without review. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and geospatial methods and that will have broader impacts that benefit society. Generally, successful HEGS proposals should describe clear and detailed plans for data collection (including sample selection if appropriate), justification for proposed methods, plans for data analysis, attention to confounding variables, and efforts to address biases (e.g., confirmatory biases, selection biases, etc.). Competitive HEGS proposals should substantiate the validity of findings and generalizability to broader contexts. 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 HEGS program illustrate how the proposed research questions engage human dimensions that are relevant and important to people and societies.A proposal that fails to be responsive to these program expectations will be returned without review.

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Updates and announcements

NSF expands wildland fire research teams and capabilities through FIRE-PLAN awards, several supported by HEGS

September 19, 2023

HEGS Program invites supplemental funding requests to support undergraduate and graduate students

March 18, 2023

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General inquiries should be submitted to HEGS-info@nsf.gov. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer or panelist for the HEGS program, please convey your interest in an email message to HEGS-info@nsf.gov.

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Email
Phone
Organization

Tom EvansProgram Director

tevans@nsf.gov

(703) 292-4891

SBE/BCS

Jeremy Koster

jkoster@nsf.gov

(703) 292-8740

SBE/BCS

May YuanProgram Director

mayuan@nsf.gov

(703) 292-2206

SBE/BCS

Program events

Past

February 1, 2023 - Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Office Hours

January 25, 2023 - Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Office Hours

January 18, 2023 - Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Office Hours

January 11, 2023 - Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Office Hours

Additional program resources

Dear Colleague Letter: High School Student Research Assistantships in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE-High)

Dear Colleague Letter: HEGS Research Experience for Graduates (REG) and Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements to support students from Minority Serving Institutions and Community Colleges

Dear Colleague Letter: Human-Environment & Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Research Experience for Graduates (REG) and Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements

NSF programs to stop accepting proposals via FastLane website

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Related programs

Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (HEGS-DDRI)

Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)

Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (CA-DDRIG)

Organization(s)

Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)

Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (SBE/BCS)

Upcoming due dates

Full proposal

2025

February 3 2025
- Target date

August 1 2025
- Target date

First Friday in August, Annually Thereafter

Program guidelines

Award information

Pending the availability of funds and quality of proposals.

Estimated number of awards

15 to 25

Estimated number of awards description

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HEGS generally recommends a total of 15 to 25 senior research awards; 0 to 2 faculty early-career development (CAREER) awards; 0 to 3 awards to support conferences; 0 to 1 research coordination network (RCN) awards.

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