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And Republican states sue over student debt relief.

University of Minnesota announced as member of the news Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH).

The University of Alabama has been awarded a $360 million grant to form the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology.

As the George W. Bush administration was drawing to a close, Scott Rayder faced a tough choice. Should he push to fund a new national climate service? Or should he direct those funds instead toward a set of sensitive scientific instruments for the government’s new polar-orbiting satellite system? At the time, Rayder was chief of staff at NOAA, where the concept of a national climate service had gained traction under NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher. The idea was to establish a central home for federal climate data—which is often scattered across the federal science agencies—with t...

President Biden has picked Rick Spinrad, an oceanographer with decades of science and policy experience, to run National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the government’s leading agency for weather, climate and ocean science. The White House announced Spinrad’s selection along with several additional climate and environmental nominees, including Tracy Stone-Manning, a senior adviser for the National Wildlife Federation tapped to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau for Land Management. Spinrad, a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University, served as chief scientist at ...