Trump administration moves to dismantle $368M ocean monitoring network critical for climate data
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Maya Yang
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Summary
The Trump administration plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million deep-sea observation network with over 900 instruments that has provided critical data on ocean health, climate change, current patterns, and marine biodiversity for over a decade. The National Science Foundation announced the "descoping" of the OOI in a May 21 notice, just days after Trump fired all members of the independent board overseeing the NSF. This move is seen as the latest victim of budget cuts under the Trump administration, threatening a key source of climate and ocean data.
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In a notice, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it had 'initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative' (OOI), a vast ocean observation network comprising more than 900 instruments that collect data on ocean health.
The notice, issued on 21 May, came just days after Trump fired all members of the independent board that oversees
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