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Trump jobs purge at NOAA hits Great Lakes staff in Michigan

• Updated: Mar. 01, 2025, 6:01 a.m.
• |Published: Mar. 01, 2025, 6:00 a.m.

  The R/V Storm is a research boat operated by the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron at Alpena, Mich.David J. Ruck | Great Lakes Outreach Media

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ANN ARBOR, MI — Great Lakes researchers and communicators with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Michigan are the latest federal employees to be axed amid the ongoing nationwide purge of government workers.According to Congressional Democrats,  at least 15  employees at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) in Ann Arbor were among 1,300 federal workers fired by the Trump administration this week at NOAA, an environmental research agency which generates and sends weather, water and climate data across the federal government.

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