Described below are a few specific examples of SGER topics:
Within the NSF priority area, Human and Social Dynamics (HSD), program directors are accepting SGER proposals that are multidisciplinary in nature, involving a research team of at least three investigators who represent at least two distinct disciplines, one of which must be a social science. (Note: the HSD SGER submission due date is September 23rd). The proposals may focus upon such issues as decision-making under crisis conditions, human and organizational preparedness for and response to social crises, risk assessment and vulnerability analysis, societal responses to warnings, evacuation notifications, search and rescue, and community resilience.
Within the Directorate for Engineering (ENG), program directors are accepting SGER proposals from the research community to support reconnaissance teams to enter the Gulf Coast disaster areas, when open, to capture data from Hurricane Katrina. Three ENG divisions are supporting this effort: the Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems (BES), the Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems (CMS), and the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS).
· BES is interested in funding research on environmental impact assessment, including public health and disease effect, petrochemical and other contamination, damage to the potable water and wastewater systems, damage to municipal solid waste and hazardous waste containment facilities, and erosion.
· CMS is focusing upon wind speeds and storm surge; spatial damage distribution; damage to residential structures; impact damage to larger engineered structures; damage to the levee systems and documentation of the repair efforts; damage to coastal bridges and highways, railroad, and pipelines; and damage to onshore and offshore industrial facilities. In addition, CMS is interested in supporting research into issues of emergency management, including effectiveness of disaster planning, effectiveness of warning and evacuation systems, social vulnerability analyses, establishment and operation of emergency shelters, infrastructure restoration management, search and rescue and the delivery of medical care, and urban versus rural effects of the storm.
· ECS is focusing its efforts on four areas. The first is electrical power systems, which includes incipient failure detection, restoration processes, power quality issues, and fault data. The second category is telecommunications, which includes fiber optic, wired, and wireless link assessment and restoration, and sensor networks for integrated damage assessment. Research on intersystem dependencies between communication and power systems is also encouraged. Third, proposals on robotics and sensor networks that focus on autonomous damage assessment, sensor fusion, and decision systems, are also sought. And fourth, proposals on the use of adaptation and computational intelligence to accelerate response are being sought.
Within the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), program directors are accepting proposals that focus on the human and social dimensions of the Katrina catastrophe and recovery from it. (Note: for these SBE proposals, a submission due date of September 23rd has been established.) They may address the entire range of individual and social responses in anticipation of, during and after Katrina; for example: decision making and political mobilization before during and after Katrina, economic and psychological impacts of Katrina, including the economic and psychological dimensions of recovery from Katrina on children and adults; sources of differential impacts on different social groups; the breakdown of law and order following Katrina, and its effects on recovery efforts and on victims; altruistic responses to Katrina by people and organizations, including faith-based organizations, and geographical, political, cultural, social and psychological dimensions of the dispersion of residents from the affected areas following Katrina. SGER proposals dealing with any of the preceding topics are appropriate if information needed for research will disappear or degrade if not soon collected. Researchers are also encouraged to submit standard grant proposals dealing with responses to and effects of Katrina if data collection need not begin for some months.
· Within the Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), the programs most likely to entertain Katrina-related proposals are Decision, Risk and Management Sciences, Economics, Innovation and Organizational Change, Law & Social Science, Political Science and Sociology.
· Within the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Systems (BCS) the Programs most likely to entertain Katrina-related SGERs are: Social Psychology, Geography, Developmental and Learning Sciences, and Cultural Anthropology.
While the opportunities described above are specific examples of SGER proposals, SGERs are an NSF-wide mechanism. Therefore investigators are strongly encouraged to contact the NSF program(s) most germane to the SGER proposal topic before submitting a SGER proposal. This will help to determine whether the proposed work meets the guidelines described above (and in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide at or whether the proposed work is more appropriate for submission as a fully reviewed proposal.
以下是SGER课题的几个具体例子：
在国家科学基金会优先领域——人类和社会动力（HSD）——内，项目主管正在接受多学科性的SGER计划书，涉及一个由代表至少两个不同学科的至少3名研究员组成的研究团队，其中一个学科须为社会科学。（注：人类和社会动力SGER计划书的应提交日为9月23日）。计划书可集中于诸如危机条件下的决策、社会危机的人力和组织准备以及应对、风险评估和脆弱性分析、警报的社会应对、疏散通告、搜寻与救助，以及社区恢复能力等问题。
在工程管理局（ENG）内，项目主管正在由研究团体接受SGER计划书，来资助搜索队在开放的时候进入墨西哥湾岸区灾区，以捕获卡特里娜飓风数据。工程管理局的3个部门正在支持该项努力：生物工程和环境系统部（BES）、土木和机械系统部（CMS），以及电气和通信系统部（ECS）。
· 生物工程和环境系统部关注对于环境影响评估的筹资研究，包括公共卫生和疾病影响、石化及其他污染、对饮用水和废水系统的危害、对城市固体废弃物和危险废弃物封存设施的危害，以及腐蚀。
· 土木和机械系统部正聚焦于风速和风暴潮；空间危害分布；对住宅结构的危害；对较大型工程结构的影响危害；对堤防系统的危害以及修复努力的书面记录；对沿海桥梁和公路、铁路和管道的危害；以及对陆上和海上工业设施的危害。此外，土木和机械系统部还关注对于应急管理问题的研究的资助，包括灾难规划的有效性、警报和疏散系统的有效性、社会脆弱性分析、应急避难场所的建立和运行、基础设施恢复管理、搜索与救助和医护提供，以及风暴对城市和农村的影响。
· 电气和通信系统部的努力则集中于4个领域。第1个是电力系统，包括初发故障检测、恢复过程、动力质量问题，以及故障数据。第2类是电信，包括光纤、有线和无线连接评估和恢复，以及用于综合危害评估的传感器网络。还鼓励对于通信和电力系统之间的跨系统依赖性的研究。第3，亦在寻求关于聚焦自动灾害评估、传感器融合和决策系统的机器人技术和传感器网络的计划书。第4，还在寻求关于利用适应性和计算智能加速应对的计划书。
在社会、行为和经济科学管理局（SBE）内，项目主管正在接受聚焦卡特里娜巨灾的人力和社会维度以及从中恢复的计划书。（注：对于这些SBE计划书，已确定9月23日为应提交日。）它们可针对在卡特里娜之前、期间以及之后的个人和社会应对的整个范围；例如：卡特里娜之前、期间和之后的决策和政治动员，卡特里娜的经济和心理影响，包括儿童和成人从卡特里娜中恢复的经济和心理维度；对不同社会团体的不同影响的来源；卡特里娜之后社会秩序的崩溃，及其对恢复努力以及对灾民的影响；人们和各组织（包括宗教组织）对卡特里娜的利他性应对，以及卡特里娜之后将居民从灾区疏散的地理、政治、文化、社会和心理维度。如果研究所需的信息若未立即收集将会消失或退化，针对任何上述课题的SGER计划书即是适当的。如果几个月内无需着手开始数据收集，还鼓励研究人员提交针对应对卡特里娜及其影响的标准资助计划书。
· 在社会和经济科学部（SES）内，最有可能接受卡特里娜相关计划书的项目为决策、风险和管理科学、经济学、创新和组织变革、法学和社会科学、政治科学，以及社会学。
· 在行为和认知系统部（BCS）内，最有可能接受卡特里娜相关SGER的项目有：社会心理学、地理学、开发和学习科学，以及文化人类学。
上述机会只是SGER计划书的一些具体例子，SGER是国家科学基金会的一个整体性机制。因此，强烈鼓励研究员在提交SGER计划书之前，联络与SGER计划书课题最密切的国家科学基金会项目。这将有助于确定拟议工作是否符合上述（以及《国家科学基金会资助计划书指南》中的指导原则或拟议工作是否更适合作为一份经过全面评价计划书提交。 原件下载：  |
