Maps

The UT Libraries 2023 Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowship call for proposals is currently open through October 2, 2023. The UT Libraries Map & Geospatial Collections Fellowship is designed to encourage students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin to develop scholarly and creative projects that utilize or enhance the Libraries’ map and geospatial data resources. These geospatial resources have contributed to the scholarly and creative output of UT scholars for decades and it is the goal of this fellowship to preserve, augment, and promote these assets so that they can be made more useful and accessible than ever before.

Eligibility

• Students at all levels and from all disciplines who are currently enrolled in a degree earning program at the University of Texas at Austin at time of proposal submission.
• Faculty and post-docs with an active paid appointment at the University of Texas at Austin at time of proposal submission.

Student and faculty/post-doc proposals are considered as separate submission categories and will be judged independently, with the intention of awarding one $1500 fellowship per category per year. Award winners will have their work featured in one or more UT Libraries repositories.

Call for Proposals

Click the button below to view/download the 2023 Call for Proposals for full details about the Fellowship including information about requirements, proposal evaluation criteria, and submission guidelines.

Proposal Form

Click the link below to complete the 2023 Proposal Form.

Sign Up for Fellowship Announcements

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Timeline

Call for Proposals released: August 2023
Proposals submission deadline: October 2, 2023
Winners contacted: Early November
Winners publicly announced: GIS Day (November 15, 2023)

Questions?

Please contact gis@lib.utexas.edu if you have any questions about the Fellowship that are not addressed in this guide or in the call for proposals.

For full details about the awarding of the 2022 UTL MGCE Fellowships view the UT Libraries press release.

Student Fellowship: Stephanie Zeller
Project Description: This project will leverage multi-modal engagement methods and transdisciplinary, practice-led research to create an interactive exhibit in partnership with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) focused on biodiversity loss due to climate change in the Hawaiian islands. This exhibit will bring together physical maps and map scans from the PCL collection with a physical model; hand-drawn prints of specific plant and animal species at risk; photographs; and digital visualizations of E3SM Earth System Model climate simulation data of the Hawaiian island region, encoded with custom, hand-made glyph artifacts. Each piece of art will be linked to specific locations on the PCL’s map of the Hawaiian islands.

For full details about the awarding of the 2021 UTL MGCE Fellowships view the UT Libraries press release.