Geosciences in Alaska

Alaska and CFDA 47.050 as a pair

CFDA 47.050 is titled GEOSCIENCES. Crossed with Alaska place of performance, obligations sum to $150,508,023 on 50 awards. The national 47.050 hub includes other states. Alaska’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $150,508,023 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of Alaska field stations.

fifty awards is a NSF geosciences research file with fifty instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $150,508,023, 50 awards, AK, and 47.050. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Geosciences and Alaska together when reading $150,508,023.

Readers should keep CFDA 47.050 and Alaska in the same sentence as $150,508,023. The live table lives at /states/ak/programs/47.050/. Parent hubs at /programs/47.050/, /states/ak/, and /states/ak/programs/ are larger than this cell. /ties/ lists other spending ties. Do not add those parents into $150,508,023.

Geosciences, not a full NSF rollup

Other NSF directorate catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those lines into Alaska 47.050 would invent a combined NSF book this cell does not contain. Mixing those series into $150,508,023 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Alaska, CFDA 47.050, $150,508,023, 50 awards. Campus names, cruise IDs, and principal-investigator names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Geosciences, not a ranking of Alaska campuses. Dividing $150,508,023 by 50 yields about $3.01 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 50 is not a lab, cruise, or named-investigator census.

Questions

How much Geosciences funding is obligated in Alaska?

USAspending records $150,508,023 in CFDA 47.050 obligations with Alaska place of performance on 50 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Geosciences and Alaska together when citing $150,508,023. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Do 50 awards mean 50 Alaska field stations?

50 is a USAspending award-record count, not a lab, cruise, or named-investigator census. The implied mean is about $3.01 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 50 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this Alaska's total federal NSF spending?

No. This join is CFDA 47.050 only. Other NSF directorate catalogs use different CFDA numbers on separate Alaska program pages. Nationwide 47.050 is not limited to Alaska. Obligations of $150,508,023 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Geosciences–Alaska table.

Has this research money already been spent in the field?

No. $150,508,023 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 47.050 × AK pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.