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Amherst climate science center could close as feds freeze funding
“This is just another way to stop science,” said Bethany Bradley, the center’s co-director. The Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center is one of nine regional hubs across the country that helps state and local partners develop plans to adapt wildlife, water and land to the effects of climate change.
The center is one of nine regional hubs across the country supported by the U.S. Geological Survey and charged with helping state and local partners develop plans to adapt wildlife, water and land to the effects of climate change. This spring, the administration proposed eliminating the $326 million ecosystems research arm that supports the nine regional climate adaptation science centers — including in New England — and a national hub. The potential closure of the Northeast center worries researchers like Nathan Senner, assistant professor of environmental conservation at UMass Amherst and the Mass Audubon Bertrand Chair for Ornithology.
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