GIS & Geospatial Data Services

The UT Libraries is excited to announce the release of the 2022 Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Felllowship call for proposals. 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 prize 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 proposals are considered as separate submission categories and will be judged independently. This will allow for two prizes of $1500 each to be awarded during each annual submission cycle, for the best student and best faculty proposals respectively. 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 2022 Call for Proposals for full details about the Fellowship including information about requirements, proposal evaluation criteria, and submission guidelines.

Sign Up for Fellowship Announcements

If you want to stay up to date about UTL MGCE Fellowship announcements, visit https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/gis-users to subscribe to the UT GIS user email list.

Timeline

Call for Proposals released: August 22, 2022
Proposals submission deadline extended!: October 10, 2022
Winners contacted: Early November
Winners publicly announced: GIS Day (November 16, 2022)

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.