Re: [External] NOAA OAR websites/data going offline TONIGHT

This article is open and informative: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night


I plan to spend some time looking through the resources identified in the attached PDF to inventory at-risk datasets - any that I find I'll add to the Data Rescue Project. If anyone else is working on the same thing, post here or contact me off-list to collaborate.

-Chris

Chris Turner
Data Librarian
Axiom Data Science
Find a time to meet with me<https://outlook.office365.com/book/Findatimetomeetwithme@tetratechinc.onmicrosoft.com/>
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Unfortunately, that article is locked behind a paywall.

                                        Steve McDonald
                                        Steve.mcdonald_at_tufts.edu


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> TONIGHT
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> Hi all,
> See the article below. Many NOAA office of research websites and datasets will
> be going offline tonight because their AWS contract has been cancelled. If you
> have researchers working with this data, please tell them to download copies
> TODAY.
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/us-weather-

> agency-websites-to-vanish-under-planned-contract-cuts
>
> Lena Bohman
> Senior Data Management and Research Impact Librarian Long Island Jewish -
> Forest Hills Liaison Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at
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