Grantee ZIP codes, award amounts, and topics of study for NSF Division of Environmental Biology grants from 2004 to 2008

This data includes the ZIP code of the principal investigator and award amount for all grants awarded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) for the years 2004 to 2008. For the 2008 awards, the data also includes a score indicating whether or not the grant could be classified into any one of 21 topical categories. This data was compiled to map an index of the spatial distribution of ecologists’ funding throughout the United States.