Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The Trump administration announced plans to dismantle a $368 million network of about 900 ocean instruments in the Atlantic and Pacific, removing them over roughly 15 months. The National Science Foundation said it will send ships in June to retrieve more than 900 deep sea instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington State, Alaska, North Carolina, and near Greenland and Iceland. The network carried a $48 million annual budget and supplied long-term temperature, circulation, and ecosystem data used for climate research, weather forecasting, and fisheries management. Removing the array will degrade the ability to track ocean warming, marine heatwaves, and changing currents, weakening climate models and operational forecasts.
"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". | Eric Niiler for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
Alf10Because… of course he will.. “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any” 🤬🤬🤬
TJ 🐸🇺🇸🇺🇦5The wrecking ball continues to do what it was elected to do. #Project2025
Mr. Mads2Stop the count His motto for anything in his way to make even more money. His legacy (can't be soon enough) will be greed and hate.
Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation and double speak .
Norman Strasburg, Ph.D.4This is an opportunity for the EU to own real-time data the US is no longer interested in. Europe can take the lead and be prepared while we run around in our underwear barefoot trying to escape from the hurricanes without spilling our beer.
elmobronowski.bsky.social2We are gleefully poking out our own eyeballs as a civilization
Jolly Confused2Simply gobsmacking in its stupidity. The cost of this research is a drop in the ocean (pun intended) so this vandalism can only be intended to destroy American scientific leadership. Only Soviet Russia had these kind of restrictions on science. Is that where this is headed?
Your 'moment of doom' for June 2, 2026 ~ The less you know. "the National Science Foundation is removing 900 ocean data collecting buoys ... If left in place, the buoys would have continued to provide climate-related data ... for another 15 years." maritime-executive.com/article/trum...
Eddie Climate 🇺🇦5What can't be measured doesn't exist... right?
FoxFire4Until reality kicks them in the ass.
FUBAR Observer3Genuinely impressed that more scientists don't stare into the void of our abject ignorance and turn into evil scientists trying to get ebola to grow little hairs and take to the air.
anne stein2Ganz ganz schlecht 🥴😡..Danke für den Artikel 👋
Nemmi 🌱 🔜 Your Garden2You can't know what you don't keep data on. Guess we are going to take the let's just stick our heads in the sand approach to climate change. Not surprising.
