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Trump administration to dismantle ocean monitoring system
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) said it would send ships in June to begin removing more than 900 deep-sea instruments.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Eric Niiler
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is dismantling a US$368 million (S$470 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 US 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, and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea.
