Half of staff at Boulder’s NOAA Global Monitoring Lab face furloughs as funding freeze drags on

Half of staff at Boulder’s NOAA Global Monitoring Lab face furloughs as funding freeze drags on

By Brooke Stephenson, Boulder Reporting Lab About half of the staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Lab in Boulder will be furloughed in May if federal funding is not released.  The lab tracks and analyzes greenhouse gases, solar radiation, aerosols and ozone levels. More than half of the scientists at the lab work through CU Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)…