Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network
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美国国家科学基金会计划退役耗资近3.68亿美元的海洋观测计划网络，该网络实时监测海洋化学、波浪、水温、盐度等关键指标。这一决定在阿拉斯加引发深切担忧，该州是美国最大渔业产地，气温变暖速度是全球平均水平的两倍。这些数据被科学家、渔业管理者、沿海灾害规划者及军方广泛使用，用于计算渔业捕捞量、预测海洋热浪和巨浪活动等。
The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s 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 $368 million network of scientific instruments that tracks ocean chemistry, wave action, water temperature, salinity and a host of other metrics.
The real-time information from these ocean observatories helps scientists, fishery managers, coastal hazard planners and even the military plan and prepare for the future. Whether that’s 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.
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