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Geosciences awarded by National Science Foundation

$6,091,320,688 in USAspending.gov obligations sit on Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) where the awarding agency is National Science Foundation (code 049), across 3,893 awards. GEOSCIENCES is CFDA 47.050; the National Science Foundation is awarding-agency 049. This page is that program–agency join, not an earthquake catalog, a field-station inventory, or an earth-science department ranking. Obligations are not outlays.

Key figures

  • Geosciences via National Science Foundation: $6,091,320,688 in USAspending obligations (CFDA 47.050, agency 049).
  • Join obligations of $6,091,320,688 equal the CFDA program total of $6,091,320,688.
  • The table lists 3,893 awards, not a census of field sites.
  • The join is Geosciences × National Science Foundation, not a campus geoscience league table or a named expedition roster.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

Geosciences overlapping NSF — CFDA 47.050

The pair is Geosciences × National Science Foundation. $6,091,320,688 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 47.050 and awarding-agency 049. The join obligation $6,091,320,688 equals the CFDA program total of $6,091,320,688 in this extract, so this packet does not publish a leftover Geosciences slice at a second awarding agency. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that National Science Foundation caused Geosciences activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a campus geoscience league table or a named expedition roster.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is GEOSCIENCES. The agency name on the awarding side is National Science Foundation. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or a fiscal-year stamp — this packet publishes no fiscal year. Cite $6,091,320,688 as obligations on the Geosciences–NSF pair.

CFDA 47.050 as the geosciences side

CFDA 47.050 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Geosciences. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $6,091,320,688. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the National Science Foundation slice unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $6,091,320,688 as cash Treasury already sent. Investigators, facilities, and expedition names are unpublished on this packet.

Open CFDA 47.050 at /programs/47.050/ for the program hub. That page is not this join: it can include other awarding agencies if the extract lists them, and it is still obligations rather than outlays. This ties page stays on CFDA 47.050 awarded by agency 049 only.

Agency 049, National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation is awarding-agency 049 on USAspending assistance rows. The agency hub National Science Foundation at /agencies/049/ rolls up every program that agency awards in the index, not only Geosciences. Reading $6,091,320,688 as National Science Foundation’s entire book would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one agency, not a department budget justification.

Do not add Federal Election Commission contribution totals to $6,091,320,688. Campaign-finance receipts and USAspending award obligations are separate public-record systems even when a geography or a calendar year happens to overlap. This packet has no FEC facts.

3,893 awards as a CFDA table, not a field-site census

The extract lists 3,893 awards on the Geosciences × National Science Foundation table. That is an award-record count, not a census of field sites. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $6,091,320,688 by 3,893 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable.

Department rankings this geosciences–NSF join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $6,091,320,688 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Geosciences over-reads the field. The join cannot say that National Science Foundation specialized in Geosciences because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $6,091,320,688 labeled as Geosciences obligations awarded by National Science Foundation.

Hubs for CFDA 47.050 × agency 049

Open /programs/47.050/ for CFDA 47.050, /agencies/049/ for National Science Foundation, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a campus geoscience league table or a named expedition roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Geosciences and National Science Foundation, $6,091,320,688, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Keep the citation narrow: CFDA 47.050 and awarding-agency 049 on USAspending.gov, obligations only, with no invented recipients. Investigators, facilities, and expedition names are unpublished on this packet.

Geosciences at NSF is a pair, not a ranking of programs and not a ranking of agencies. Later bulk files can move the dollars; prefer the live program hub and the National Science Foundation hub when this snapshot and the overlay diverge.

Questions

How much did National Science Foundation award on Geosciences?
USAspending.gov records $6,091,320,688 in Geosciences obligations awarded by National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.050, agency 049) across 3,893 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not National Science Foundation’s entire book.
Is the NSF geosciences total an outlay?
No. $6,091,320,688 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Geosciences awarded by National Science Foundation. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.
Does 3,893 awards mean 3,893 field sites?
No. 3,893 is an award-record count, not a census of field sites. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without a new organization. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.
Which pages parent Geosciences and NSF?
/programs/47.050/ is the program parent. /agencies/049/ is the National Science Foundation parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Geosciences × NSF at $6,091,320,688. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

USAspending.gov CFDA program joined to awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.