Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of United States senators delivered a letter to the National Science Foundation urging Acting Director Brian Stone to “reverse course” on a Trump administration plan to dismantle the “vital” Ocean Observatories Initiative. Comprised of “over 900 unique deep-sea buoys and other instruments,” the OOI “provides insights into changing ecosystem conditions and extreme weather events,” the group said. The administration’s plan threatens the “safety of our coastal communities” and undermines America’s “ability to monitor coastal environments, marine currents and extreme weather events.”
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