Geography and Social Science

Funding opportunities in geography and social science are available from the following sponsors:

• EPSCOR (NSF) - The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is a program designed to fulfill the National Science Foundation's (NSF) mandate to promote scientific progress nationwide.  The EPSCoR program is directed at those jurisdictions that have historically received lesser amounts of NSF Research and Development funding.  Twenty-five states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin islands currently participate.  Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in a region's research infrastructure, thus allowing to improve its national competitiveness.
  Deadline:  Various

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Geography and Spatial Science - The Geography and Spatial Science (GSS) Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface.  Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns.  The GSS Program encourages projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate and graduate education into the overall research agenda.
  Deadline:  August 15, January 15