"The Trump administration is targeting one of the world’s most trusted sources of #climate and oceanic data—the Ocean Observatories Initiative (#OOI). According to the New York Times, ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, which, for the past decade, has collected crucial data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions from all layers of the Atlantic and Pacific #Oceans... "

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

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

#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
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".. 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

we're heading backwards... 15 years ago we were all excited about what systems we could come up with for the 67% of the planet covered in ocean (even more at the NZ EEZ scale)... then NZ #OOI (Ocean Observatories Initiative) efforts in this regard stopped about a decade back ... and now this.

#ocean #science #climate

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/trump-administration-dismantles-critical-ocean-floor-observation-network/