Deep sea observation station that tracks climate change set to be pulled from Gulf of Alaska

Researchers recover an old mooring from Ocean Station Papa during an Ocean Observatories Initiative expedition. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Travis/WHOI)
The National Science Foundation plans to yank a long-standing ocean observation station from the sea floor far off the coast of Alaska next year. 
It’s one station in an entire ocean monitoring system slated to be dismantled as part of the Trump Administration’s rollback on federal science programs that help researchers study the