Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Is Being Evicted Amid Federal Cuts

[mahina]

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawaiian-volcano-observatory-is-being-evicted-amid-federal-cuts/

For more than 100 years, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has kept a close eye on Kīlauea and other geologic hot spots to warn Big Island residents before eruptions, while training hundreds of volcano researchers from around the globe.

Now, the observatory’s staff faces eviction from their current headquarters at the Ironworks Building in Hilo — where they have been housed during construction of their new, permanent observatory — as part of the Elon Musk-led effort to end hundreds of federal leases early.

It remains unclear exactly how that lease cancellation will affect the observatory’s research and public services; no one seems to want to talk about it.

Its leaders and the agency that runs it, the U.S. Geological Survey, declined to directly address questions about their impending departure, although they did say they remain committed to the mission of monitoring Kīlauea, Mauna Loa and other active sites across Hawaiʻi.
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Make it make sense.

[Blues Heron]

1. Philip Ong of HVO has been doing weekly detailed updates of the Kīlauea volcano for a long time

As you probably know
This is bad bad bad not good

[GreenWave]

2. Have they turned off the tsunami early warning sytems too?

[pandr32]

5. Probably soon.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Preventing American deaths is of no interest to Trump whatsoever.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I've been there.

It was in the late 1980s, and Kilauea was erupting. It was very impressive.

[GiqueCee]

6. ALL of this evil shit...

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... has been committed without ANY research or auditing what so-fucking-ever. Musk is a psychotic monster who wants to kill anyone and everyone who isn't white and just as evil as he is. As distasteful as many may find it, there is only one remedy. It's that, or sift through the ashes of America for whatever traces of our honor might remain. Don't hold your breath in hopes of finding any. What is most dispiriting is the treachery from inside our own house.
Maybe they'll make a horror movie about all of this someday, complete with Jamie Lee Curtis' screams. If there's anyone left to make one, that is, or if there's still a film industry.