The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, a center for Arctic research and education, was shut down due to a loss of federal funding. The Trump administration has expressed its priorities for the continent surrounding national security and energy dominance rather than science. A vital resource for monitoring sea ice forecasts, ARCUS played a pivotal role in surveilling climate change and providing information to local subsistence hunters and businesses that relied on Alaskan shipping channels. UCSB Earth Sciences Professor Alex Wrobel spoke with KCSB's Emerson Good about the importance of Arctic research on the global population.