US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy

Jean Pierre Gattuso; François Houllier; Janine Adams; Diva Amon; Tamatoa Bambridge; William Cheung; Sanae Chiba; Jorge Cortés; Carlos M. Duarte; Thomas Frölicher; Stefan Gelcich; Kristina Gjerde; Deborah Greaves; Peter M. Haugan; Daoji Li; Arthur Tuda

doi:10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3

US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy

Jean Pierre Gattuso^*
, François Houllier
, Janine Adams
, Diva Amon
, Tamatoa Bambridge
, William Cheung
, Sanae Chiba
, Jorge Cortés
, Carlos M. Duarte
, Thomas Frölicher
, Stefan Gelcich
, Kristina Gjerde
, Deborah Greaves
, Peter M. Haugan
, Daoji Li
, Arthur Tuda

^*Corresponding author for this work

Sorbonne Université
Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer
Nelson Mandela University
SpeSeas
CNRS
University of British Columbia
North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
University of Costa Rica
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
University of Bern
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
IUCN Ocean
Institute of Marine Research
East China Normal University
Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association

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Recent disruptions in US federal science are severely affecting multiple science and environment agencies, and universities. These developments are undermining the ocean science and multilateral cooperation that are essential for marine conservation, sustainable resource management and climate resilience globally. Budget cuts, programme terminations and restrictions on key research areas (including climate change and decarbonization) are eroding scientific capacity and compromising the integrity of international assessments, negotiations and monitoring systems. We urge delegates to the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC1), 9–13 June 2025, to recognize that these critical risks require responses that move beyond symbolic commitments and focus on institutional resilience, redundancy and strategic rebalancing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1079-1080
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Ecology and Evolution
Volume	9
Issue number	7
Early online date	28 May 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3
Publication status	Published - Jul 2025

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology

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Gattuso, J. P., Houllier, F., Adams, J., Amon, D., Bambridge, T., Cheung, W., Chiba, S., Cortés, J., Duarte, C. M., Frölicher, T., Gelcich, S., Gjerde, K., Greaves, D., Haugan, P. M., Li, D., & Tuda, A. (2025). US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 9(7), 1079-1080. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3

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