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 (JGOFS) and Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems and Dynamics (SO GLOBEC) programme. ICED will integrate activities with relevant groups, including 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 Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry programme (OCB), 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), the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) and the Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic programme (EBA).

ICED also leads and coordinate international research via the European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis EUR-OCEANS Consortium, and formed the IPY consortia: ICED-IPY which led the Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean component of IPY, and also links to other IPY clusters and consortia. ICED also has on-going links with the Polar Foundation. The Sentinel programme is being developed as part of ICED. ICED has also developed links with groups operating outside the Southern Ocean including Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas ESSAS and CLimate Impacts on Oceanic TOp Predators CLIOTOP.