Caucus Calls on Science Foundation: Halt Removal of Ocean Buoys

Caucus Calls on Science Foundation: Halt Removal of Ocean Buoys

On Wednesday, State Senator David Brock Smith, vice-chair of the Oregon Legislative Coastal Caucus, announced that the group sent a letter formally urging the National Science Foundation to immediately pause removal of the Ocean Observatories Initiative floating buoys and the…

NSF plans to remove four ocean monitoring arrays

The National Science Foundation will remove four ocean monitoring stations used to collect measurements of ocean temperature, currents and more.

Oregon Legislative Coastal Caucus Calls on National Science Foundation to Halt Removal of Critical Ocean Monitoring Buoys

EDITOR’S NOTE: Today, June 18th, the Trump administration backed off plans to cancel a $368 million ocean monitoring system that helps scientists study climate change. The reversal followed bipartisan pressure from senators, who called on Trump’s team to keep the system in place. See link to NY Times article below. (SALEM, OR) — The Oregon Coastal Caucus sent a letter* (link below) on June 17, 2026 formally urging the National Science Foundation…

COASTAL CAUCUS CALLS ON SCIENCE FOUNDATION: HALT REMOVAL OF OCEAN BUOYS

June 18, 2026 3:30 a.m. On Wednesday, State Senator David Brock Smith, vice-chair of the Oregon Legislative Coastal Caucus, announced that the group sent a letter formally urging the National Science Foundation to immediately pause removal of the Ocean Observatories Initiative floating buoys and the Coastal Endurance Array. A release said it is a vital ocean monitoring systems that supports safety, science and economic stability along the Pacifi…

Alaska Republican among Congress members seeking to save ocean science network

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is among several members of Congress trying to prevent the National Science Foundation from dismantling portions of an instrument system that monitors the nation’s oceans. The National Science Foundation plans to pull out much of the instrumentation in the Ocean Observatories Initiative system, which began operating in 2016 and was intended to last for three decades. The system has more than 900 instruments that tr…