U.S. Budget Cuts Threaten to Sink Undersea Research Fleet, Science “Last week, researchers began to plead their case, asking lawmakers to reject an Obama Administration plan to eliminate the $4 million National Undersea Research Program (NURP), which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). … The program also funds investigators to work at NOAA’s Aquarius Reef Base, an underwater laboratory that sits in 18 meters of water […]