The firings dealt a blow to an agency that provides everything from weather forecasts to fisheries management to cutting-edge climate science in Alaska.

Avalanches kill about two dozen people annually in the U.S. Predicting their likelihood, potential severity and location depends heavily on information provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The website lists nine leases in Alaska that have been canceled as of Sunday, including a NOAA facility in Seward, a Rural House Service operation in Palmer and a U.S. Geological

NOAA staff members, like thousands of others, were caught up in the mass terminations underway in the federal government.

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In Alaska, NOAA responsibilities include a broad range ... he had been fired Thursday from his job as a meteorologist in the Anchorage National Weather Service office. "Seeing positions go ...

wrote physical scientist Andy Hazelton in October when joining NOAA’s Environmental Modeling ... joining the National Weather Service in Anchorage, Alaska, in December 2023.