NASA to eliminate chief scientist position
Monday, March 10, 2025 - 14:34
in Earth & Climate
NASA announced today it will eliminate its Office of the Chief Scientist, along with offices advising the agency on technology, strategy, and coordinating its diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts. The reductions, which will eliminate two dozen jobs, come as part of the agency’s “reduction in force,” mandated by the White House. The agency’s current chief scientist, Katharine Calvin, was appointed by former President Joe Biden to spearhead NASA’s efforts on climate change. Recently, she was prevented from traveling to a meeting of the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in China, even though she co-leads its next major climate assessment. The chief scientist office at NASA is...