The firings dealt a blow to an agency that provides everything from weather forecasts to fisheries management to cutting-edge climate science in Alaska.
More federal workers were fired in Alaska yesterday, including at least four people from NOAA’s regional office in Juneau.
The website lists nine leases in Alaska that have been canceled as of Sunday, including a NOAA facility in Seward, a Rural House Service operation in Palmer and a U.S. Geological
NOAA staff members, like thousands of others, were caught up in the mass terminations underway in the federal government.
Maintaining data collection in regions like Alaska and the Arctic is critical ... WindBorne’s technology offers a cost-effective solution: traditional NOAA weather balloons cost $500 per data profile and stay airborne for only two hours, whereas ...
The cuts came just before a separate wave of departures was expected under the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program.