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       🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨#Trump Administration to Dismantle #OceanMonitoring SystemThe $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the #Atlantic & #Pacific has been #critical to #climate & #ocean #research.There’s no reason to do this other than to be destructive & evil.#ClimateChange #MarineLife #MarineEcosystems #NSF #ClimateCrisis https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjApPApjrgqFjOZU by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       The #Trump admin is dismantling a $368 million deep #ocean observation system put in place a decade ago to monitor #coastal #environments, #MarineEcosystems & powerful currents that affect the global #climate.The National Science Foundation [#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, & an area between Greenland & Iceland known as the Irminger Sea.#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjApjNcc1nqvBX4C by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       Scientists have used data from the system to understand how the #ocean is absorbing #GreenhouseGases from the atmosphere, how changes in #OceanTemperature such as marine heat waves might affect #fisheries or signal bigger shifts in the #climate, & coastal #flooding along the East Coast.#ClimateChange #MarineLife #MarineEcosystems #NSF #ClimateCrisis #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjAqNRDg4Rr9vWVM by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       The station in the Irminger Sea has been key to understanding changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current [#AMOC], a global conveyor belt of water that some scientists are concerned may be weakening as a result of #GlobalWarming. A collapse of the current could have severe #weather effects.#ClimateChange #Ocean #MarineLife #MarineEcosystems #NSF #ClimateCrisis #reasearch #science #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjAqrvOKSPNiBs1Y by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       …Craig McLean, who was the acting chief scientist at #NOAA during the first #Trump term, said the move was part of a pattern in the Trump admin.“This reflects the further lack of understanding that the current administration has of scientific value & scientific merit,” Dr. McLean said. “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership.”#ClimateChange #Ocean #MarineLife #MarineEcosystems #ClimateCrisis #reasearch #science
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjArdQXiSFl2Po48 by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       The #ocean observation system began operating in 2016 & was expected to continue for 25 years. Jim Edson, a marine meteorologist who led the Ocean Observatories Initiative, called it “the world’s most advanced continuously operating ocean observing systems.” When it was first proposed, the #science foundation said it was important to have a long-term presence at scientifically important sites in the #Atlantic & #Pacific oceans.#ClimateChange #MarineEcosystems #ClimateCrisis #reasearch #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjAs2F3SIv001ckC by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       …The #Trump admin has repeatedly tried to shutter it, proposing to cut its funding by 80% in both 2025 & again in 2026. #Congress pushed back, restoring themoney.To try to reduce costs, managers turned off some of the instruments & collected less data, acc/to a December 2025 presentation about the observatories at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, a nonprofit organization of scientists.Still, the #NSF moved ahead to decommission the observatory network.#ocean #climate
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjAsoSACrvPWa7tI by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       Hilary Palevsky, professor of earth & environmental sciences at Boston College, has been using data from the Irminger instruments for the past decade to better understand how the #ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.Scientists have benefited from downloading data from remote ocean instruments, rather than making difficult, dangerous & expensive trips to sea each year. Pulling up the instruments without a plan to store them or to continue collecting data “is very hasty,” she said.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjAtgKvryE6dn9sW by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       “One of the real tragedies here is that collecting data effectively at this site was a huge engineering challenge, & it’s not the kind of thing where you can just leave your notes for the next person who comes in,” Palevsky said. “There’s a lot of expertise that has the potential to be lost.”The $48 million annual budget for the observation network was small compared with the value of the data it collected for understanding the #oceans & the #climate, Dr. McLean said.#ClimateChange #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vjAuIGeqJO0HXS08 by Nonilex@masto.ai
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       The observation station off Cape Hatteras, NC, collected data about #coastal #currents that influence the #weather & commercial #fisheries along the US East Coast.Mike Muglia, professor of coastal studies at East Carolina University, used the data to understand waves, currents & sea life for a marine #RenewableEnergy test site in Nags Head, NC, that was funded by the #Energy Department.#ClimateChange #Ocean #MarineLife #MarineEcosystems #NSF #ClimateCrisis #reasearch #science #Trump