Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)

The Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program supports 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. The program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable research that advances geographical and geospatial sciences. Some key points to consider: * The program cannot fund research that takes as its primary goal humanistic interpretations or findings that are not generalizable or reproducible. * Proposals should describe clear and detailed plans for data collection, justification for proposed methods, plans for data analysis, attention to confounding variables, and efforts to address biases. * Competitive proposals should substantiate the validity of findings and generalizability to broader contexts. * The program is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF.