USF technicians prepare to deploy a buoy and its anchor from the R/V Weatherbird, the Florida Institute of Oceanography's flagship research vessel. Photo courtesy University of South Florida
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
After NOAA cuts
“If I’m not mistaken, we had five landfalling hurricanes last year. So if that study is right, then the progress that we’ve made over the last almost two decades saved U.S. society $25 billion.”
Staffing and funding cuts at one of the nation’s premier science agencies could leave Southwest Florida less able to respond to hurricanes and contribute to an accelerating federal brain drain, former and current NOAA staffers and affiliated researchers are warning.
