AI6YR Ben<p>Stand Up for NOAA Research — The Time to Act Is Now</p><p>April 17, 2025</p><p>A Statement of the American Meteorological Society in Partnership with the National Weather Association</p><p>The administration’s 2026 budget passback plan, currently under consideration, eliminates NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Office and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated Cooperative Institutes, and moves the few remaining research efforts to different NOAA departments. If enacted, the passback would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes. </p><p>The speed at which these decisions are being made translates into little to no opportunity for feedback or consideration of long-term impacts. Without NOAA research, National Weather Service (NWS) weather models and products will stagnate, observational data collection will be reduced, public outreach will decrease, undergraduate and graduate student support will drop, and NOAA funding for universities will plummet. In effect, the scientific backbone and workforce needed to keep weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective will be drastically undercut, with unknown — yet almost certainly disastrous — consequences for public safety and economic health. As key stakeholders, AMS and NWA stand ready to provide our expertise so that the U.S. can maintain its competitiveness in the years ahead. </p><p><a href="https://blog.ametsoc.org/2025/04/17/stand-up-for-noaa-research-the-time-to-act-is-now/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.ametsoc.org/2025/04/17/st</span><span class="invisible">and-up-for-noaa-research-the-time-to-act-is-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/noaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noaa</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/nws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nws</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/forecasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forecasting</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disasters</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/publicsafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicsafety</span></a></p>