The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Trustees of Boston University a $449,985 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant period is from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 and will support the development of new coevolving latent space network with attractors models to study social dynamics. Specifically, the awardee will develop modeling and statistical inference methodologies for this new class of...
This $100,608 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the relationships between human activities, place attachment, and environmental factors. The project takes a mixed-methods approach, including mapping geographic patterns of human activities, to analyze how place attachments develop in response to changes in natural landscapes. The research findings will contribute to a...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $200,000 provides funding for research investigating the socioecological outcomes of restoration programs in forest-grassland ecosystems. The research aims to address critical knowledge gaps on the social and environmental impacts of restoration, including tradeoffs between ecological and social goals. The project employs multiple methods such as remote sensing, field...
This three-year, $674,542 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of California Santa Cruz to develop Bayesian statistical and machine learning methods for analyzing complex survey data from the federal statistical system. The grant falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which promotes basic research and education in these fields. Specifically, the investigators will extend existing models using data...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $382,047 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant, running from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, will fund a research project investigating the role of amenities, residential preferences, mortgage lending practices, and real estate advertisements in neighborhood change processes. The project...
This $1,599,825 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California, Santa Barbara. The award aims to advance scientific theories and models of land use forecasting by integrating diverse, multi-scale data into dynamic prediction models to inform sustainable land use plans and prevent biodiversity and ecosystem service loss. The research will co-design decision support tools with scientists and policymakers in...
This $398,374 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project examining factors that drive the regeneration of forests in developing regions that have been deforested. The research combines satellite imagery and ethnographic methods to analyze how rural-to-urban land sales and the priorities of urban landowners contribute to tree cover gain. The project will expand geographic...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $187,180 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research examining the relative roles of ecology, evolution, and experience in solving novel problems under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion...
This Project Grant award of $194,675 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to develop new econometric and statistical methods that allow researchers to draw valid conclusions from complex data in a variety of social, behavioral, and medical science settings. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a generally applicable reparameterization procedure for informative...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $292,095 to Arizona State University from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The grant funds collaborative research on explaining differential success in biodiversity knowledge commons. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program supports basic research and education to contribute to scientific...