https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-pours-money-into-ocean-research-donald-trump-guts-science-funding/PARIS — The European Union wants to plug a gaping hole in ocean research left behind by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.The trouble is, it has a lot less cash to splash. Last week, the European Commission launched the “OceanEye” program, which aims to make the EU “a global leader in ocean intelligence” by investing in critical ocean observation technologies and data collection on how oceans evolve.It came two weeks after the U.S. National Science Foundation — a government agency that funds science in the U.S. — said it would dismantle its own $368 million ocean observation network and remove “all in-water infrastructure” on parts of its coastline. These machines provide crucial data on oceanic systems and how they react to climate change. Three weeks before that, the Trump administration had fired the NSF's independent board, continuing a trend of withdrawing science funding and canceling environmental programs.U.S. funding withdrawal comes at a critical time, when accelerating global warming is posing new risks to ocean systems, the highest-profile of which is to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — the ocean conveyor belt that keeps Europe warm.
The U.S. decision to take some of its data collection infrastructure offline is "a point of concern," because Europe's ocean monitoring and simulation systems partly rely on it to understand how the AMOC current is evolving, said Pierre Bahurel, general director of Mercator Ocean International, the ocean monitoring and data provider currently running the EU’s Copernicus Marine Service.Europe's announcement that it would step up its funding, just as the U.S. withdrew its own, prompted praise. However, Brussels is hoping to make it happen with a much smaller budget than the U.S. To kickstart the program, the Commission will use €92 million from its €95 billion cash pot for research called Horizon Europe — a quarter of the size of the U.S. ocean observation network's funding.“We should accept good news when it comes," said Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, French Ambassador for the Arctic and Antarctic poles and maritime issues. "The resources dedicated by the European Commission must seriously increase, and at least now there is a line of credit that exists."The EU itself is calling on other countries and regions to step up observation.“Due to the complicated nature of ocean observation, no single countryor regioncanobservethe ocean alone.This must be a global effort with diplomacy at its forefront,” said the European Commissioner for Oceans Costas Kadis at the Neptune Forum, an event on ocean exploration and diplomacy held in Paris on Monday. OceanEye is part of the EU’s Ocean Pact, a plan to improve the ocean’s health and boost the bloc’s maritime economic and security interests as human-caused climate change continues to disrupt oceanic currents, water temperatures and fish stocks.
In June 2025 the Commission had said that a third of the €1 billion budget for the Ocean Pact would go towards scientific projects.Some point to the technological overlap between ocean monitoring systems and more tech-savvy sectors, such as space innovation, as a way to explore other funding avenues. "There is a lot of money in the space sector right now [and] in digital technology,” said Bahurel.In depth, scientific ocean observation relies on “a system for monitoring, describing, and observing the ocean, where we use satellites, measurements at sea, and digital systems,” he added. “We absolutely have an interest, if we want to access the necessary level of funding, to view things holistically.” Mercator Ocean International is also working to build a European “digital twin” of the ocean to help both the private and public sectors understand how the ocean responds to various events, from plastic pollution to rising temperatures.
you can't trust atoms. they make up everything.
Such amazing research>Why racism is causing global warming >Why paris needs 1 million more Muslims and jeets to save the ocean>Why it's okay for Dubai and India to dump their waste into the ocean
>>1518772Where do you people get this shit from?
>>1518775its a combination of drugs, stupidity, and deeply ingrained personal insecurities
>>1518775Is this a joke? I'm not that guy, but I've seen stories exactly like that circulate in both media and even scientific circles in the last decade and a half or so. We unironically let shitskins into academia who think everything is whitey's fault instead of correctly blaming a combination of corporate interests, and China/India continuing to exist.
>>1518777>I've seen stories exactly like that in both media and even scientific circlesWhere are you seeing these stories? Can you post 10?
>>1518775There's countless videos on the internet of indians dumping trash and sewage on water bodies, in places like Canada even. Everyone knows how they treat their holy rivers. Have you been sitting under a rock for the past 500 years?
>>1518780>I saw it on twitter so it has to be realkek
>>1518781I honestly think they're the only brown person they know
>>1518727HAH I bet they won’t even match the hundreds of millions Trump is investing into mom and pop beautiful clean coal (tm) businesses. Europe is so backwards
>>1518772>look I found a low iq leftoid journalist article>that means cutting all oceanography funding is good
It's so cool we gave up our scientific edge to uhh.. umm... line the pockets of pedophiles?
>>1518909Ocean research, among other things, provides evidence of climate change. Can’t have that.
>>1518907Well, since we'll be cutting taxes too, why not donate money?368 million for Papa (a moored depth monitor)https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/PapaPapa showing that the water depth is pretty much the same for 20 years.https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ocs/PapaSounds worth it. I wonder where that 400 mil/year actually went though.Let the E-Ew slaves pay for it to und the UN.
>>1518912Where’d you get the 368 million?
>>1518919Grr eight job redding der arr tickle>It came two weeks after the U.S. National Science Foundation — a government agency that funds science in the U.S. — said it would dismantle its own $368 million ocean observation network and remove “all in-water infrastructure” on parts of its coastline.
>>1518920I thought that might be the case, but I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. The 368 million isn't all for this one depth monitor you absolute fucking retard.
>>1518921>Irminger Sea, Station Papa, Endurance and Pioneer ArraysOh, there's 4 of them. So, it's only 92 million each, to run depth monitors (unmanned and moored) that are from the 50s.So, the question remains, "Where's the money going?"The answer? "I don't care." 'Cause you don't. You just want to cast shade.
>>1518929The 368 million isn't all going to depth monitors you complete fucking moron. >The answer? "I don't care." 'Cause you don't. You just want to cast shade.Projection doesn't get much more blatant than this.
>>1518727>EU bans condiments packets>EU shaves the whales (unfunded)does the shared market access of the EU counterbalance the arbitrary and oppressive and pointless rules and regulations that the EU constantly imposes? probably not because EU manufacturing has continued to decline.
>>1518946oppressive to whom?
>>1518938Yeah, it's probably going to Demoncrats.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/11/zeldin-terminates-greenhouse-gas-reduction-fund-grants-00225481
>>1518969What?
>>1518969Are you glitching out, bot? What's that supposed to mean?
>>1518929>The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is a science-driven ocean observing network that delivers real-time data from more than 900 instruments to address critical science questions regarding the world's oceans.>Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to encourage scientific investigation, OOI data are freely available.
>>1518727>politico.eu>Europe LOVES science>unlike those AMERICANS, who aren't clever like usHow many people fall for this?Same embarrassing material for 200 years now.
>>1519093Do you think they made it up?
