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Funding
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitting organization’s local time):
August 25, 2025
Track 1
September 25, 2025
Track 2 (Submission of a Concept Outline by August 25th is required. See full text for additional information)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES
A Concept Outline (CO) is required for Track 2 only. PIs interested in responding to Track 2 of this solicitation must submit a Concept Outline to [email protected] by August 25, 2025 prior to submission of a proposal to aid in determining the appropriateness of the scope and work for consideration under this opportunity.
Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation should be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is regularly
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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