The Trump administration wants to dismantle NCAR. Colo. Rep. Joe Neguse has some ideas to prevent that
One of the world’s leading climate research institutions – the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR – has been headquartered in Boulder since the 1950s.
New computer simulations reveal the Earth system in unprecedented detail
Leveraging the power of two of the nation’s leading supercomputers, a team of scientists at Texas A&M University and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has created an unprecedented set of high-resolution Earth system simulations.
Mississippi plays key role as NASA’s Artemis II mission nears launch
Mississippi plays key role as NASA’s Artemis II mission nears launch.
NASA is funded. Now what?
After facing monumental challenges in 2025, NASA and the space science community have now landed in 2026 with a Senate-confirmed Administrator, a full budget, and a full calendar of events.
NASA scientists join U.S. Drought Monitor team
Two representatives from NASA have joined the team of U.S. Drought Monitor authors. The monitor is hosted by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and produced through a partnership between the drought center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and now NASA.
Tour Wyoming’s NCAR Supercomputing Center
The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) opened its doors in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 2012. Since then, more than 4,000 users from more than 575 universities and other institutions across the nation and overseas have used its advanced computing and data storage resources for research in the Earth system sciences.
Our hidden Space Race history
From Huntsville to Houston, the space industry in the US is rooted in the South. And as NASA works towards returning to the moon with the Artemis program, our space history is inspiring new generations of Americans. But in North Carolina, two important sites from the Space Race of the 1960s remain relatively unknown.
NOAA seeks more money and flexibility for commercial weather data program
The NOAA strategy being developed will give commercial data providers a longer-term view of NOAA’s needs than the current program, which relies primarily on five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts.
As the Trump administration targets NCAR, scientists rally to defend the ‘mothership’ of atmospheric research
In a letter published Jan. 23, the National Science Foundation asks for ideas to redistribute NCAR’s core functions — such as weather modeling and predicting electromagnetic solar storms — into different institutions.
What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.