Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring System NYT - Top Stories By: Maxine Joselow 18 June 2026 at 16:21 The reversal comes after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to block the removal of deep-sea monitoring instruments. © Darlene Trew Crist/WHOI, via Associated PressA data-collecting buoy off the Carolina coast. The National Science Foundation was planning to begin removing hundreds of ocean instruments that measure ocean data this month.