In May, the federal government announced it would do so without warning separate network of ocean monitoring systems said that he spent more than 350 million dollars on its construction. No reason was given for the closure decision Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), but doubt immediately focused on the network’s role in monitoring climate change.
But OOI also provides data useful for weather forecasting and fisheries management, which has drawn widespread opposition. Today it seems that the opposition has won, as the government will announce that it has withdrawn its decision. The main question that remains is how much OOI has suffered over the past month.
There is no official statement from the federal government yet. However, The New York Times reports the decision will be announced later today, and Ars obtained a statement from Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of the House Science Committee, indicating that the decision had been made.
OOI is a federally supported resource that provides ocean data for use by academic researchers, government planners, and private companies. It consists of monitoring systems that can monitor things like currents, salinity, chemical levels, temperature and tectonic activity in various parts of both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. (The page has over 100 individual entries data collected by the system.)
