The Trump administration wants to ax about $2.2 billion in NOAA research endeavors, grant programs and other initiatives under its proposed 2026 budget, dramatically reshaping one of the government’s core science agencies. In a recently released “budget justification” document laying out the full details of NOAA’s proposed budget, the administration takes aim at the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which it wants to dissolve, shifting much of its work to the National Weather Service and National Ocean Service. Among the largest OAR programs the budget would terminate are 16 NOAA cooperative institutes that include 80 universities performing high-level research on an array of NOAA priorities, from earth systems modeling to ocean health to advanced weather radar. The administration would also eliminate the 50-year-old national Sea Grant program, which is widely supported by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

Other weather forecasting and climate science news:

• NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science: Evaluating predictability limits of North American winter precipitation
• Union of Concerned Scientists: Blog: NOAA’s weather and climate science is under relentless attack from Trump administration. Will Congress stand up for us?