A judge has temporarily blocked the National Science Foundation from dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, a globally significant weather and climate research center based in Boulder, Colorado.
Senior US District Judge R. Brooke Jackson on Monday granted a preliminary injunction to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of institutions that manages NCAR. The consortium sued the National Science Foundation in March, after the federal agency — which provides much of NCAR’s budget — announced plans to break apart the center’s functions. The lawsuit specifically challenged plans to remove supercomputer facilities in Wyoming from under the consortium’s management.
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