Gutting NASA’s Earth Science Division Would Send Research Back to the Dark Ages
Norm Nelson is interested in what defecate the oceans check . As a biological oceanographer at UC Santa Barbara , his inquiry draw connections between sunshine and phytoplankton , the tiny light-green microbes that power the marine carbon cycle . There are mess of outstanding question Nelson want to pursue — but after 30 generative years , his days as a scientist may be numbered . That ’s because Nelson gets upwards of 80 percentage of his financing from NASA ’s Earth science division , which extremity of the Trump transition team would like to see gutted ....