{"id":8708,"date":"2025-02-25T15:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/n-s-f-cuts-raise-fears-of-a-reduced-u-s-presence-in-polar-regions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:29:53","slug":"n-s-f-cuts-raise-fears-of-a-reduced-u-s-presence-in-polar-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/n-s-f-cuts-raise-fears-of-a-reduced-u-s-presence-in-polar-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"N.S.F. Cuts Raise Fears of a Reduced U.S. Presence in Polar Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kelly Brunt wasn\u2019t the only federal employee <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/national-park-service-firings.html\" title=\"\">to be laid off this month while traveling<\/a> for work. But she was almost certainly the only one whose work trip was in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Brunt was a program director at the National Science Foundation, the $9 billion agency that supports scientific advancement in practically every field apart from medicine. As part of the Trump administration\u2019s campaign to shrink the federal government, roughly 10 percent of the foundation\u2019s 1,450 career employees <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/us\/politics\/national-science-foundation-firings.html\" title=\"\">lost their jobs last week<\/a>. Officials told staff members that layoffs were just getting started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet the office where Dr. Brunt worked has an importance that goes beyond science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Office of Polar Programs coordinates research in the Arctic and Antarctic, where the fragile, fast-changing environments are of growing strategic interest to the world\u2019s superpowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By treaty, Antarctica is a scientific preserve. And for decades, U.S. research \u2014 plus the three year-round stations, the aircraft and the ships that support it \u2014 has been the bedrock of the country\u2019s presence there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Of late, though, \u201ccountries such as Korea and China have been rapidly expanding their presence, while the U.S. has been sort of maintaining the status quo,\u201d said Julia Wellner, a marine scientist at the University of Houston who studies Antarctic glaciers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Office of Polar Programs has long been understaffed, said Michael Jackson, who worked as an Antarctic program director for the agency until retiring late last year. Aging planes and facilities, plus flat budgets for science, have snarled the pace of research. \u201cRight now we are capable of doing maybe 60 percent of the science that we were capable of doing\u201d 15 years ago, Dr. Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If the Trump administration slashes science funding, American researchers could collaborate more with other nations\u2019 polar institutes, as many already do, Dr. Wellner said. \u201cBut those other countries have their own scientists,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think South Korea or the U.K. is just going to make room for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When asked how the layoffs of polar scientists would affect the National Science Foundation\u2019s work, an agency representative declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the agency fired Dr. Brunt and other employees last week, she was heading home after spending over a month at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Another program director who was laid off, David Porter, had been supporting scientists embarking from New Zealand on a 10-week expedition in the Southern Ocean. Other teams were gearing up to drill ice cores, take seismic measurements, measure ultraviolet radiation and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Foundation program officers help decide which projects like these are most worthy of federal funding. Often they are seasoned scientists themselves: Dr. Porter is an expert in atmospheric and oceanic science who has worked at Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Brunt\u2019s N.S.F. employment was probationary because she became a permanent worker only six months ago, she said. Before that, she spent three years at the agency on temporary assignment from NASA and the University of Maryland. In total, she has 25 years of experience as a glaciologist and 15 Antarctic field seasons under her belt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI want to dispel this rumor that this is a bunch of people who are sitting around sucking off the government milk bottle,\u201d Dr. Jackson said. \u201cThese are people that had well-established careers in academia, and they decided that they wanted to come to N.S.F. and give something back to the U.S. taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Jackson also doesn\u2019t buy the idea that eliminating federal workers will root out fraud and abuse. \u201cBy removing the program officers at the front lines, you\u2019re actually removing the very thing that you want to have there in place to make sure that no fraud and abuse is happening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For scientists in the field, their program officer might also be their first point of contact when issues arise, said Twila Moon, the deputy lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMaybe you\u2019re having trouble with some of the logistics,\u201d Dr. Moon said. \u201cMaybe your instruments aren\u2019t getting to you on time, or there\u2019s been changes in the field flights that you need to think about.\u201d Fewer officers mean more scientists at risk of snags or challenges, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The geopolitical significance of Antarctica might help shield it from the administration\u2019s most severe cost-cutting, said Dawn Sumner, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Davis, who studies microbes in Antarctic lakes. \u201cThe only way you can have a presence in Antarctica is through science,\u201d Dr. Sumner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even so, much of that science is motivated by the need to address human-caused global warming, a subject that President Trump and his allies have long denigrated as a nonissue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Wellner of the University of Houston finds it \u201cappalling\u201d that Antarctic scientists might someday have to avoid mentioning climate change to receive federal funding. Still, she said, researchers in Texas, Florida and other states long ago figured out how to sidestep official taboos around climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe talk about sea-level rise in Texas all the time,\u201d Dr. Wellner said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to talk about \u2018climate.\u2019 It\u2019s just \u2018sea-level rise.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/climate\/trump-nsf-cuts-antarctica.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Brunt wasn\u2019t the only federal employee to be laid off this month while traveling for work. 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