The system, known as the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), was launched in 2016 as a long-term effort to provide continuous, real-time data on ocean temperatures, carbon absorption, circulation patterns, and coastal impacts, with an expected life span of roughly 25 years. The National Science Foundation (NSF) said in May it had begun a major “descoping” of the project, which will involve phasing out several key observing arrays and removing in-water infrastructure over the coming months, ending real-time data collection in those regions as equipment is recovered.

— Anna Skinner, “Trump Admin Just Rolled Back $368M Ocean Monitoring System”

This move allows the administration to pretend like it cares about “frivolous” government spending while also protecting Trump’s Big Oil buddies from the data that consistently shows they’re boiling us alive.

#Newsweek #News #Science #NSF #OOI #ClimateCrisis #BigOil #USpol #Corruption

"Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html

"The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global #climate. The #NSF said it would send ships in June to begin removing more than 900 deep-sea instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington State, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea."

PS: See my Mastodon thread on the Trump admin decision to destroy a perfectly good satellite gathering climate data.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114977053147871488

#DefendResearch #DontLookUp #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

#SciAM:
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Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network

.. OOI has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
"
".. ships will be dispatched .. to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments .."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/

2.6.2026

#AMOC #ClimateResearch #Klimaforschung #Klimawandel #NSF #Ocean #oceanography #OOI #Ozean #science #Sea #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html

#Trump #ocean #research #NSF #science