US Antarctic Station Funding Cuts

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Antarctic program budget

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Scientists and workers in Antarctica are feeling the effects of the federal government shutdown

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The United States Antarctic Program ( USAP ) operates three permanent stations in Antarctica .

Scientists operate a number of major research projects, studying everything from climate change and rising sea levels to cosmological makeup of the universe.

Last week , program managers staffed on Antarctic projects were fired as part of a wider purge at the National Science Foundation .

Sources tell WIRED that Germany , Canada , Spain , and China have already started taking advantage of that uncertainty by recruiting US scientists focused on Antarctica .

“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations,” says one Antarctic scientist.

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