Northwest's Yanked Observatories to Return to Ocean After Trump Administration Backs Down - The Daily Chronicle

U.S. scientific instruments in oceans to remain in place

A glider is deployed in the Gulf of Alaska as part of the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative program. Gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that can gather data for weeks or months. The glider was deployed as part of Global Station Papa Array, a collection of instruments positioned in the Gulf of Alaska through the Ocean Observatories Initiative. (Photo provided by the Station Papa Science Team)Hundreds of sophisti…

Northwest's yanked observatories to return to ocean after Trump administration backs down - The Daily Chronicle

The Trump administration has reversed course on its effort to shut down a network of ocean research stations in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The National Science Foundation on Thursday announced a halt to the dismantling of floating scientific observatories off Alaska, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington, and Greenland. Researchers were offloading the last of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s six high-tech data buoys from Pacific Northwest…