Ocean observatories go dark off Pacific Northwest coast ^48%

KUOW - By John Ryan - 6/3/2026, 11:06 PM

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The Trump administration has quietly removed an array of floating ocean observatories from waters off the Washington coast, KUOW has learned. Their removal is part of a national dismantling of a network of sophisticated data buoys in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency created... more