The Trump administration's dismantling of the deep-ocean observation system undermines efforts to monitor marine ecosystems and climate change effects.

#Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Removal of #Ocean Monitors Trump admin is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and effects of #climatechange. NSF declined to say how much it would cost to remove more than 900 remote ocean instruments anchored to ocean bottom in far-flung locations, including in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/climate/trump-ocean-monitors-climate-research.html https://archive.ph/83EVd

"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