Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean
ICED is an international multidisciplinary programme launched in response to the increasing need to develop integrated circumpolar analyses of Southern Ocean climate and ecosystem dynamics.
ICED has been developed in conjunction with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), through joint support from the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) and Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) programmes.
The ICED vision is to develop a coordinated circumpolar approach to better understand climate interactions in the Southern Ocean, the implications for ecosystem dynamics, the impacts on biogeochemical cycles, and the development of sustainable management procedures.
ICED Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
The ICED Science Plan and Implementation Strategy sets out an ambitious programme to address not only the significant scientific challenges of integrating Southern Ocean ecosystem, climate and biogeochemical research at a circumpolar level, but also the challenge of bringing together a multidisciplinary group of international scientists to ensure effective cooperation and communication in addressing the objectives of ICED.
If you would like to become part of the ICED community then please complete our online form. We encourage EU Polar Scientists to join our community.
For more information contact ICED.
What's New?
XXXII SCAR Open Science Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA **ICED are covening a session at this conference**. Abstract submission is now closed. Find out more about the conference and register to attend.
IPY 2012 Conference, Montreal ** The ICED SSC are co-convening the session 1.3.2 Polar marine ecosystems: status and change**. Find out more about this conference and register to attend.
EU Polar Scientist Network
**As part of the EUR-OCEANS Consortium flagship Polar Ecosystem Change and Synthesis (PolEcoSyn), we are trying to create a network of EU polar scientists to contact to provide information on Southern Ocean Fieldwork to start populating our Fieldwork Map. If you would like to be a part of this network then please complete our online form with all your details.
