Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University
By
Andrew Freedman
Updated Apr 24, 2025
The Trump administration canceled the lease for its top climate monitoring lab, located in New York City, as of May 31, according to an email seen by CNN.
In the email, the director of the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Maryland informed employees of the impending closure of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and transitioning to remote work.
The affected lab, also known as NASA GISS, is leased from Columbia University and located above the diner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was featured in the TV Show “Seinfeld.” Scientists there conduct climate and space studies while collaborating with researchers at Columbia.
“The work continues, the data, the products, the science will continue because science is done by people not by buildings,” NASA GISS director Gavin Schmidt told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/climate/nasa-lease-canceled-columbia/index.html
