InsideClimate: When Renee McPherson took on the role of director of research at the South Central Climate Science Center last year, she had no idea that shed soon be grappling with budget cuts that threatened her ability to support regional climate research or hire new graduate students and faculty--the premise of hosting the center in the first place.
The facility McPherson runs out of the University of Oklahoma is among eight centers created between 2010 and 2012 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)....