How the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. science are derailing Canadian research.
In early spring this year Aaron Fisk and his colleagues were preparing for their usual field season, planning to deploy bright yellow autonomous gliders in the Western Basin of Lake Erie. The goal was to study what happens as the lake transitions from winter to summer and how nutrients, temperature and other factors affect algal blooms and water quality.
But then the Trump administration began making major cuts to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that works closely with Canadian scientists on research in the Great Lakes, providing money, ships and equipment for many joint projects. Funding that had already been promised was cancelled or delayed, and long-time scientific collaborators at the agency were suddenly fired. Read more in University Affairs.