{"id":9728,"date":"2026-06-12T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9728"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:23","slug":"alaskans-will-be-flying-blind-after-nsf-decommissions-ocean-monitoring-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9728","title":{"rendered":"Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Paula Dobbyn, Inside Climate News<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 11, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation\u2019s top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskaseafood.org\/industry\/economic-harvest-data\/economic-impact\/\">fish-producing<\/a> state, where temperatures are warming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/understanding-climate\/new-report-highlights-alaska%E2%80%99s-last-five-years-dramatic-climate\">twice as quickly<\/a> as the global average.<\/p>\n<p>The National Science Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanobservatories.org\/2026\/05\/announcement-on-ooi-descoping\/\">announced<\/a> plans in May to decommission the <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanobservatories.org\/\">Ocean Observatories Initiative<\/a>, a nearly $368 million network of scientific instruments that tracks ocean chemistry, wave action, water temperature, salinity, and a host of other metrics.<\/p>\n<p>The real-time information from these ocean observatories helps scientists, fishery managers, coastal hazard planners, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/793230\/operation-northern-edge-why-navy-trains-gulf-alaska\">military<\/a> plan and prepare for the future. Whether that\u2019s calculating how much fish can be harvested or when a marine heatwave or giant wave action may be occurring, the data is used by a plethora of sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/alaskans-will-be-flying-blind-after-nsf-decommissions-ocean-monitoring-network\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/alaskans-will-be-flying-blind-after-nsf-decommissions-ocean-monitoring-network\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/alaskans-will-be-flying-blind-after-nsf-decommissions-ocean-monitoring-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Dobbyn, Inside Climate News &bull; June 11, 2026 The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation\u2019s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average. The National Science Foundation announced plans in May to decommission the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a nearly<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9728\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}