Three local research projects have lost millions of dollars in federal funding as part of the Energy Department grant cancellations the Trump administration announced Thursday.

All of them deal with renewable energy — either offshore wind or wave energy.

The organizations leading the research are Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the East Falmouth-based Coonamessett Farm Foundation, and Littoral Power Systems of New Bedford.

Liese Siemann, a senior research biologist leading the study for the Coonamessett Farm Foundation, had already started work. The project aims to evaluate the consequences of offshore wind development for commercial fish species and seafloor habitat.

“From a scientific perspective, I think this country kind of charged into developing all of these wind farms,” sh

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