Geosciences — CFDA 47.050

Geosciences obligations at $6.09 billion

USAspending.gov records $6,091,320,688 in obligations under CFDA 47.050. Three thousand eight hundred ninety-three awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1.56 million per award — typical of multi-year research grants rather than state block grants. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical expedition budget.

The assistance-listing title is GEOSCIENCES. CFDA 47.050 is the identifier. Other science listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $6.09 billion. Mixing those codes would invent a combined earth-science total this packet does not contain.

USAspending.gov records the $6,091,320,688 obligation stock for CFDA 47.050 together with 3,893 awards, 468 recipients, and 54 states. Keep Geosciences on 47.050 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

Hundreds of recipients, thousands of awards

Four hundred sixty-eight recipients share 3,893 awards, or about 8.3 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $6.09 billion evenly would assign about $13.0 million per recipient. That pattern matches a research portfolio in which institutions hold multiple awards. The packet does not list the 468. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of principal investigators.

Fifty-four states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Research dollars still concentrate at large earth-science campuses and observatories. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a campaign count

Among research listings, 47.050 is a dense file: 3,893 rows against 468 recipients. Competing renewals and supplements can inflate award count relative to unique projects. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of geoscience studies.” Recipients (468) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (3,893) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report publication counts, ship days, or sample inventories. Citing 3,893 as field campaigns or papers would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus research outlays

The $6.09 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against geosciences awards — are not in the packet. A laboratory can show a large obligation stock while draws follow a multi-year grant calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 47.050 to size the Geosciences listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a scientific-progress scorecard. Publications and datasets live in other series. This page reports the obligation book tagged 47.050.

What the 47.050 tables omit

The Geosciences hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a publication index, not a cruise catalog, and not a sample archive. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $6,091,320,688. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 3,893 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 54 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on instruments or fieldwork.

Where the Geosciences table lives

The Geosciences program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 47.050 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other science listings. For 47.050 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 47.050’s 3,893 awards spread $6,091,320,688 across 468 recipients and 54 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 8.3 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 47.050 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census. Start on the program page for CFDA 47.050 before ranking this listing against other assistance rows. The four-fact citation for CFDA 47.050 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above.

Questions

How much is obligated for Geosciences?

USAspending.gov records $6,091,320,688 in obligations for CFDA 47.050. SpendingVault indexes 3,893 awards, 468 recipients, and 54 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a study count. CFDA 47.050’s $6.09 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 47.050 carry?

The listing shows 3,893 awards against 468 recipients, or about 8.3 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1.56 million per award. Award count is not a publication or campaign count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive Geosciences awards?

The extract lists 468 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 47.050. Geographic coding covers 54 states. The packet does not name the 468 or publish scientific output. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

Is $6.09 billion already spent on geosciences?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 47.050’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or research results. The $6.09 billion on 3,893 awards is the obligation figure.