Funding Opportunities for GI Science

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Funding Opportunities forGI Science

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• National Science Foundation
• Nina Lam 02/04/00

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NSF Mission

• To promote the progress of science
• To advance the national health, prosperity, and
  welfare
• To secure the national defense

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Major Activities

• Initiate and support, through grants and
  contracts, scientific and engineering research
• Support educational programs at all levels
• Foster international interchange of scientific
  information
• Provide information on science and engineering
  appropriate for development of national and
  international policy
• Increase diversity

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A Science Management Agency

• Response to input from scientists and
  institutions on broad civilian scientific needs
• Over 4.0 billion/year budget
• 1,200 full-time employees
• 30,000 proposals/year
• 60 advisory groups (6,000 members)
• 250,000 reviews (50,000 reviewers)
• 9,000 new awards/year to universities,
  non-profit, small business

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Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)

• Discoveries at and across the frontier of science
  and engineering
• Connections between discoveries and their use in
  service to society
• Diverse, globally-oriented workforce of
  scientists and engineers
• Improved achievement in mathematics and science
  skills needed by all Americans

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NSF Organization Chart
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Current Funding Opportunities

• Within program
• Between programs (co-reviews)
• Within Directorate
• Cross-Directorate
• Foundation-wide
• Interagency

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Example Projects byGeography and Regional
Science

• An important area of focus in GRS
• NCGIA Varenius project
• The geography of English dialect features by
  self-organizing maps
• Searching on remotely sensed imagery
• Geographic categories An ontological
  investigation
• Methods for monitoring spatial patterns
• A spatially-distributed GIS-based analysis of
  temperatures in a stream network

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Example Projects byGeography and Regional Science

• An ordinary least squares solution to handling
  spatial autocorrelation latent in georeferenced
  data
• Soils, geomorphology, GIS and paleolakes in
  Northern Michigan
• CORONA and the secret mapping of the U.S.
• Off-route strategies in non-visual navigation
• The social construction of GIS software, data,
  and results
• International workshop on GIS and Modeling

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Directorate for Social,Behavioral and Economic
Sciences

• Enhancing infrastructure for the SBE
• Six current awards
• 1. Center for spatially enabled social science
• 2. TalkBank A multimedia database of
  communicative interaction
• 3. The national FMRI data center
• 4. Dynamic employer-household data and the
  social data infrastructure

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Directorate for Social,Behavioral and Economic
Sciences

• 5. Finding aids, bibliographic references,
  expert training, and integrated hyperlinks
• 6. International integrated microdata access
  system
• Deadline Aug. 1, 2000 4-8 awards
• not less than 500,000/year, 3-5 years

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Other Crosscutting and Interdisciplinary Programs

• Digital Libraries (e.g. Alexandria Digital
  Earth...)
• CAREER Faculty Early Career Development Program
• POWRE Professional Opportunities for Women in
  Research and Education
• SBIR Small Business Innovation Research
• IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and
  Research Training
• KDI (Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence)
• Water and Watersheds (NSF/EPA/USDA)

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Major Initiatives (gt50 mil.)

• Biocomplexity
• must be multidisciplinary (as many as possible)
  large-scale across scales biological, physical
  and social systems model driven
• Full proposal March 1, 2000
• Workforce in the 21st Century

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Major Initiatives (gt50 mil.)

• ITR Information Technology Research (90M) areas
  include
• software information technology education and
  workforce human computer interface information
  management computational science scalable
  information infrastructure social and economic
  implications revolutionary computing

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Major Initiatives (gt50 mil.) -Information
Technology Research

• Proposals gt 500K
• 930 preproposals submitted
• recommend about 120 for full proposals
• Proposals lt500K
• 1800 Letters of intent received!!
• Encourage your participation!!

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Upcoming Funding Opportunities

• Y2001 proposed budget and its impacts to GI
  Science
• - Significant increase in ITR ( 223 mil)
• - Could a portion be devoted to GI Science?
• - Within BCS, 1.6 mil increase for basic
  research in GI Science

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Upcoming Funding Opportunities

• Another major foundation-wide initiative based in
  SBE?
• Spans the interests of most NSF
  directorates includes most of the programs in
  SBE
• challenges the scientific communities
• productively
• has broad-based support from communities
• and politics
• Need input from the UCGIS community

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Miscellaneous Comments

• Think Big How to develop successful
  collaboration?
• New research challenges in a cohesive manner,
  instead of a laundry list?
• Educational challenges are we creating
  basic-level technicians only?