Key linkages with other projects and programmes

ICED will generate multi-disciplinary links between biologists, oceanographers, biogeochemists, climatologists and fisheries scientists from the international community, building upon the research and experience of the Southern Ocean Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (SO JGOFS) and Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems and Dynamics (SO GLOBEC) programme. ICED will integrate activities with the Climate Variability and Predictability/Climate and Cryosphere (CLIVAR/CliC) programme, International Polar Year (IPY), Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), International Whaling Commission (IWC), the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the Census of Marine Life (CoML), the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML), the International Antarctic Zone (iAnZone) Coordination Group, Climate of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (CASO) and the (SCAR EBA )programme.

ICED will lead and coordinate international research via the Southern Ocean System of the European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis (EUR-OCEANS), and the new IPY consortia: ICED-IPY which will lead the Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean component of IPY, and will also link to other IPY clusters and consortia including the CCAMLR 2008 Survey and GEOTRACES.