Feds Cancel Plan to Rip Out Ocean Monitoring System After Backlash

Trump Has Decimated a Vital Ocean Monitoring Program. What Does It Mean for Fisheries?

By Gaea Cabico, Sentient Media For years, scientists and commercial fishers have relied on a network of underwater instruments to track ocean temperature, acidity, oxygen levels and other changes affecting marine life in real time. Now, as fisheries across the country grapple with warming waters and ocean acidification, the Trump administration is dismantling most of that critical monitoring system. On May 21, the National Science Foundation ann…

Feds cancel plan to rip out ocean monitoring system after backlash

Read the full story in USA Today. The Trump administration has reversed course on a controversial plan to remove four of five ocean monitoring arraysfrom the Pacific and Atlantic after meeting intense opposition from members of Congress, researchers and ocean advocacy groups.

National Science Foundation halts plans to dismantle oceans observatory project

The Trump administration has reversed a plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network after vigorous objections from Democratic lawmakers and scientists.