Alaska’s Murkowski among Congress members seeking to save ocean science network

By: Yereth Rosen

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: June 16, 2026

Words: 773

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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This story has been updated with a response from Sen. Dan Sullivan’s office on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 3:02 p.m.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is among several members of Congress trying to prevent the National Science Foundation from dismantling portions of an instrument system that monitors the nation’s oceans.

The National Science Foundation plans to pull out much of the instrumentation in the Ocean Observatories Initiative system, which began operating in 2016 and …

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