Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) federal funding 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 Campus names, cruise IDs, and principal-investigator names are unpublished.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 Unique recipients are unpublished. 50 is not a lab, cruise, or named-investigator census.

Alaska place of performance, not a field-station roster

AK is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Fairbanks, Anchorage, or Juneau can share the tag. Awards coded to Washington and Hawaii, stored as other geography keys stay outside $150,508,023 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $150.5 million into a field-station atlas.

Alaska federal spending is the all-program parent. 47.050 is one row on Alaska programs. $150.5 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Geosciences in Alaska for the filtered table, CFDA 47.050 for the catalog without a Alaska filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $150,508,023.

Fifty awards and a low-seven-figure mean

$150,508,023 ÷ 50 is about $3.01 million per award. That average is a low-seven-figure mean, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 50 as a record count, not as 50 unique labs or 50 named investigators.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 50 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $150,508,023 without changing the join key of 47.050 and AK. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $150,508,023 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains Geosciences plus Alaska. Do not treat $150,508,023 as an outlay series.

What Alaska geosciences funding does not prove

A large 47.050 total tagged to Alaska does not measure whether Alaska glacier research expanded, and it does not equal fieldwork already completed. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $150,508,023 on 50 awards for Geosciences in Alaska.

Keep both sides of the join: Geosciences and Alaska, obligations only. Do not annualize $150,508,023 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 50 as a lab, cruise, or named-investigator census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than an Arctic-expedition narrative. Cite Geosciences together with Alaska whenever you reuse $150,508,023.

Citing CFDA 47.050 in Alaska

The overlay target is the Alaska × CFDA 47.050 table. Open Geosciences in Alaska when you want the same $150,508,023 / 50-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 47.050 drops the Alaska filter. Alaska federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Alaska programs lists other catalogs beside 47.050. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Alaska won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 47.050 plus AK. Obligations of $150,508,023 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 47.050 × AK pair. 50 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census. Geosciences is the NSF directorate catalog title, not a volcano census. Fifty Alaska awards against $150,508,023 imply about $3.01 million per award. Fairbanks folklore is not a Fairbanks North Star Borough split. Washington-coded NSF awards stay outside. Recipients stay unpublished.

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.