NSFSBE|BCS|GSS

Funding “Priorities” for Researchin GIScience

Scott Freundschuh, Program DirectorGeography and Spatial Sciences

NSFSBE|BCS|GSS

Social, Behavioral &

Economic Sciences (the

directorate)

Behavioral& Cognitive

Sciences (the division)

Geography & Spatial Sciences (the program)

Where People Matter

NSFSociologyEconomicsDecision, Risk, and Mgmt ScienceMethodology, Measurement, and Statistics Innovation and Organizational ChangePolitical ScienceLaw and Social ScienceScience and Technology StudiesSocietal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology

Geography and Spatial Sciences

LinguisticsDocumenting Endangered

LanguagesPhysical AnthropologyCultural Anthropology

Archaeology and Archaeometry

Social PsychologyPerception, Action and

CognitionDevelopment and Learning

SciencesCognitive Neuroscience

Social, Behavioral, andEconomic Sciences

Behavioral andCognitive Sciences

Social andEconomicSciences

ScienceResources

Studies

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multiple scales

multidisciplinary

dispersion

human healthnational databases

relevance

education

collaboration

Why should NSF invest the taxpayer’s money on YOUR research?

complexity

innovation

solutions

integrated

spatial analysis

seamless stakeholders

social problems

infrastructure cyber

easy

incentive

integrating data sources

leverage

communication

resolution

distributed

visualization

information

data vs knowledge spatial

workforce development

virtual

cloud computing

grids

anthropology interface

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multiple scales

multidisciplinary

dispersion

human healthnational databases

relevance

education

collaboration

Why should NSF invest the taxpayer’s money on YOUR research?

complexity

innovation

solutions

integrated

spatial analysis

seamless stakeholders

social problems

infrastructure cyber

easy

incentive

integrating data sources

leverage

communication

resolution

distributed

visualization

information

data vs knowledge spatial

workforce development

virtual

cloud computing

grids

anthropology interface

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Geography & Spatial SciencesStrategic Plan (2008 through 2012)

used to be Geography and Regional Science

The same decades that witnessed rapid growth in geography have seen the establishment and enhancement of other spatial sciences -- fields that also have strong spatial orientations. Geographic information science (the science that considers fundamental questions associated with the development and use of geographic information systems and related technologies), spatial analysis (the science that develops formal techniques to analyze the topological, geometric, or geographic properties of data), and spatial cognition and behavior have joined regional science as interdisciplinary fields that are closely aligned with geography. A diagram appended to the end of this plan shows a schematic view of how geography and other spatial sciences relate to each other and to many other fields.

http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/grs/GSS_StrategicPlan_2008.pdf

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Geography & Spatial SciencesStrategic Plan

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Geography & Spatial SciencesStrategic Plan

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Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences“Dear Colleague Letter”

Integrating Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) Goals intoCore SBE Programs

Complexity Science

Large-scale Interdisciplinary Research

Infrastructure

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Complexity Science

Encourages work on:

Complex systems incorporating analyses of the interaction of simpler systems to explain observed complexity;

The dynamics of complex systems, for example “tipping points,” where many things change dramatically at one time, and “emergent phenomena,” such as phase transitions in which complex phenomena emerge despite being underdetermined by ambient conditioning factors.

CAREER Award: Formalizing and Resolving Computational Intensity of Spatial Analysis to Establish a Cyber-GIS Framework (S. Wang)

Regular Award: Contextual Influences on the Category Construction of Geographic Scale Movement Patterns (Klippel)

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09019/nsf09019.jsp

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Infrastructure

Encourage proposals for infrastructure development to our programs. This includes but is not limited to cyberinfrastructure, instrumentation, shared data bases, repositories, consortia, etc. SBE will consider both free-standing proposals for infrastructure and requests for research resources not typically available within the context of SBE research proposals.

Collaborative Research Award: A GIScience Approach for Assessing the Quality, Potential Applications, and Impact of Volunteered Geographic Information (Goodchild, Elwood and Sui)

Collaborative Research Award: Holocaust Historical GIS (Giordano and Knowles)

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09019/nsf09019.jsp

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Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences“Dear Colleague Letter”

To inform the future development of a data infrastructure for the study of innovation within and across organizations.

Meaning…

Creating New Cyber-enabled Data onInnovation in Organizations

http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09036

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Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences

Research of interest to these programs can range from the innovative application of existing technologies through the creation of new approaches, and possible combinations that could create a transformative, interdisciplinary research agenda.

Regular Award: Participatory Interaction Modeling of Online Geographic Decision Making (Nyerges and Aguirre)

Creating New Cyber-enabled Data onInnovation in Organizations (cont.)

NSF…this initiative has been designed to yield revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking.

Meaning…

NSF Wide InitiativeCyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation

(CDI)

http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi/

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NSF Wide InitiativeCyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation

(CDI) (cont.)

From Data to Knowledge: enhancing human cognition and generating new knowledge from a wealth of heterogeneous digital data Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems: deriving fundamental insights on systems comprising multiple interacting elements; Building Virtual Organizations: enhancing discovery and innovation by bringing people and resources together across institutional, geographical and cultural boundaries.

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Other Recent Funding from GSS|BCS|SBE in GIScience

Collaborative Research: Spatial Analytical Framework for Examining Community Risk Issues over Space and Time (Grubesic and Murray)

Linking Local Knowledge and Local Institutions for the Study of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: Participatory GIS in Northern Tanzania (Smucker, Olson, Wangui, Munishi and Weiner)

RUI: Using GIS to Integrate the NOAA HYSPLIT Model with Surface-Based Air Quality and Mercury Deposition Data (Snow, Livingston and Weiss)

Development and Assessment of Self-Assessed Scales for Everyday Environmental Knowledge (SEEK) (Nuernberger, Goodchild and Montello)

Integration of Spatial and Social Network Analysis in Vaccine Trials (Emch)

And…

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More Recent Funding from GSS|BCS|SBE in GIScience

The Geometry of Spatial Knowledge for Navigation (Warren) Collaborative Research: Models for Dynamic Discrete Response Data with Spatial Autocorrelation: Specification and Estimation (Kockelman and X. Wang)

Collaborative Research: Improving Small Area Population Estimation with High-Resolution Remote Sensing (Wu, Day and L. Wang)

A Geospatial Semantic Web Framework for Feature-Level Data Search, Access, Retrieval, Integration and Visualization: A Case of Transportation Network Data (Peng)

Advancing Land-Use and Land-Cover Analysis by Integrating Optical and Polarimetric Radar Platforms (Moran)

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Who to talk to:

In Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS)Scott Freundschuh, sfreunds@nsf.gov, 703.292.4995Tom Baerwald, tbaerwal@nsf.gov, 703.292.7301Ezekiel Kalipeni, ekalipen@nsf.gov, 703.292.8457

In Methodology, Measurement and Statistics (MMS)Cheryl Eavey, ceavey@nsf.gov, 703.292.7269

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