The Trump administration’s layoffs continue to careen down a path of destruction through federal agencies — last week touching down on a critical National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration office on the Monterey Peninsula that is on the front lines of tracking and helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. … The cuts didn’t just affect Monterey-based NOAA employees. Last week’s culling, which was an estimated 5% of the agency’s workforce, included a scientist who specialized in tsunami alerts, a flight director who tracked hurricanes and a researcher who studied communities that are most likely to flood during storm surges. 

Other water and natural resource funding and job news:

• Record Searchlight (Redding, Calif.): DOGE cuts target 7 federal offices in Redding, Yreka, elsewhere in the North State
• Davis Vanguard: Trump administration cuts hit home, dealing a potential huge blow to Davis and UC Davis 
• The Guardian (London): Trump layoffs have hollowed out key weather monitoring staff amid storm season
• The Washington Post: As NOAA cuts loom, scientists and industry are pushing back
• Scientific American: Opinion: Why is the Trump administration politicizing weather?
• Office of Sen. Alex Padilla: News release: Padilla, Schiff urge Interior Department to halt further workforce cuts at Bureau of Reclamation
• The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colo.): Funding freezes, NRCS staff cuts create local agricultural uncertainty