UNCW Buoy Program Retains Federal Funding for at Least Another Year
Buoys off coastal North Carolina that provide real-time weather, ocean and climate data won't be going dark for at least another year.
But the roughly year-long financial lifeline for the Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program run out of the University of North Carolina Wilmington doesn't mean the program is completely safe from the wholesale cuts and funding claw backs to federal programs and grants implemented by the Trump administration in recent months.
Still, program officials and supporters see the decision as a positive and one that...
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