Pacific, located on Newport’s Yaquina Bay, has two ships home-ported there, the Bell M. Shimada and the Rainier. One of those ...

“It’s misguided, it’s indiscriminate, it’s lazy,” Spinrad said. Banner image: Courtesy of personnel of NOAA Ship RAINIER, via Flickr.

The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent weeks. The moves have alarmed scientists, meteorologists and ...