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How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science
For the last 20 years, Bruce Appelgate has helped send America’s scientists out to sea.
From a port in San Diego, the academic maritime expert oversees more than a dozen federal and university research vessels across the country that embark on months-long voyages to answer some of the planet’s most essential climate questions. Braving extreme weather and treacherous waves, they place data-collecting buoys far out in the ocean, use high-tech contraptions to map the deepest parts of the seabed and collect samples to monitor the ways warming waters affect marine life.