Trump Admin Dismantles Vital Deep-Ocean Monitoring Network
TL;DR
The Trump administration will dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network with about 900 instruments across the Pacific and Atlantic, removing in-water infrastructure over 15 months. Scientists warn the move could hamper fisheries management, weather forecasting, and understanding the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation amid record ocean warming and an impending El Niño.
- The oceans are in deep trouble. The Trump administration is ditching a vital deep-sea monitoring system CNN
- Trump Administration to Dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative The New York Times
- Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system The Guardian
- Trump administration moves to rip out 900 deep-ocean sensors used to track threats Yahoo
- Trump administration dismantles critical ocean-floor observation network Oceanographic Magazine
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