1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

“The Trump administration is targeting one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data—the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). According to the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html), ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, which, for the past decade, has collected crucial data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions from all layers of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on a continuous basis.” Trump is gutting our information and by doing so making our country weaker, stupider, and less prepared. Please stand against these needless and dangerous threats to our scientific knowledge and preparedness.