WASHINGTON– One NOAA research project predicted Texas’ July 4 floods an hour before Guadalupe River gauges caught on. Now it and other life-saving projects face elimination under proposed budget cuts.
The priorities of NOAA’s research labs and research grant opportunities are set in collaboration with the National Weather Service and are carefully curated each year to be responsive to where the NWS’s needs and a “fairly mature” state of scientific development coincide, said Dr. Daphne LaDue, senior research scientist at the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms at the University of Oklahoma. She is just one of the NOAA researchers that call Norman home.
“These things may feel like a dream, but this research is already on track to become reality in the next decade,” said Daphne LaDue, senior research scientist at the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms at the University of Oklahoma …