Show threadJon Corsiglia (he/him/el) | Eco-Economy Insider17h ago
The more outrage that’s visible, the harder it is to quietly strip 900 ocean sensors from the seafloor while nobody’s watching. They were counting on nobody watching. #OceanObservatoriesInitiative #OOI #SaveOOI #OceanScience #MarineScience
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬21h ago
Scrapping a State-of-the-Art #Ocean Sentinel System
Ending the #OceanObservatoriesInitiative will Impair #Weather, #Climate and #Fisheries Forecasts
From farmers to coastal communities to fishermen, many Americans will be affected because predictions of weather, climate, the distribution and abundance of fish stocks, and even earthquakes will be weaker without #OOI’s data, potentially increasing the risk to lives and livelihoods.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/scrapping-a-state-of-the-art-ocean
Scrapping a State-of-the-Art Ocean Sentinel System

Ending the Ocean Observatories Initiative will Impair Weather, Climate and Fisheries Forecasts

SciLight
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬23h ago
Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling $386M #ocean observatory project
Democratic senators and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees, sent letters Monday to #NSF asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle #OOI.
#OceanObservatoriesInitiative is a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million. Over last decade it has tracked ocean circulation, marine ecosystems, #climatechange & #extremeweather
https://apnews.com/article/ocean-observatories-initiative-trump-congress-9b306cb05ec3c824f5e034821add6ad2
Lawmakers push to stop Trump dismantling of ocean observatory project

Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration. House Democrats on two committees call the action illegal. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says he's drafting legislation to freeze the removal of instruments until a full scientific review is completed. The National Science Foundation directed the removal of most of the system’s instruments from waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland by 2027. Monday’s pushback against the Republican administration’s actions comes as scientists are set to remove instruments from the Pacific and as an El Niño event is predicted to arrive this summer.

AP News
Lincoln Chronicle [Unofficial]4d ago

Trump administration’s decision to remove equipment from ocean off Oregon coast stuns, dismays OSU scientists

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://lincolnchronicle.org/trump-administrations-decision-to-remove-scientific-equipment-from-ocean-off-oregon-coast-stuns-dismays-osu-scientists/

PrivacyDigest4d ago

Alaskans will be flying blind after #NSF decommissions ocean #monitoring network

The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in #Alaska , the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average.

The National Science Foundation announced plans in May to decommission the #OceanObservatoriesInitiative , a nearly $368 million network of #scientific instruments that tracks ocean chemistry, wave action, water temperature, salinity, and a host of other metrics.
#Trump #maga

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/alaskans-will-be-flying-blind-after-nsf-decommissions-ocean-monitoring-network/

Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network

Alaska's multibillion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities at risk.

Ars Technica
Show threadGokul DasJun 4

The system consists of 900 advanced in-water instruments worth $369M, deployed in the N. #Atlantic & N. #Pacific by the #OceanObservatoriesInitiative. They provide realtime #open_access to critical #oceanic measurements.

https://oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/announcement-on-ooi-descoping/

#OOI will extract these from the ocean over 15 months. This comes after the #Trump admin fired the oversight board of #NSF, their funder. The fact that they chose not to leave them in the ocean speaks volumes about their true intentions.

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Michelle Waveform, PhDJul 11, 2024
Still tinkering with ocean data... This plot shows a day of recorded sound at Axial seamount, an active, underwater volcano sitting off the west coast of the US and Canada. The brighter band around 20 Hz is all fin whale calls! #OceanObservatoriesInitiative #OpenData #OceanData #marinemammals