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2012 - Publication of the book 'Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World' - ICED Scientists are the editors of this book, which presents a synthesis of the latest research on the biological systems in Antarctica, covering organisms from microbes to vertebrate higher predators. Find out more about this book.

2012 - XXXII SCAR Open Science Conference, July 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA - The conference will focus on SCAR science and providing advice to policy makers. Plenary sessions will focus on the themes of Antarctic Conservation Challenges in a Century of Change, Past, Present and Future Climate Evolution, and Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica and will followed by the normal parallel sessions. Find out more about this conference.

2012 - 2nd ICES/PICES/IOC International Symposium, May 2012, Yeosu, Korea - ESSAS (Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas) will be leading a 1-day joint Workshop with input from ICED, in conjunction with the PICES/ICES Second International Symposium on "Effects of climate change on the world's oceans" that is being held as one of the official events related to Expo-2012. This workshop will compare and contrast what will happen to the Arctic/Subarctic for the Atlantic and Pacific sectors and the Antarctic regions, with a particular emphasis on the role of advection. Find out more about this conference.

2012 - ICED-Sentinel Workshop, May 2012, Hobart, Australia - ICED are sponsoring a workshop developing the Southern Ocean Sentinel Monitoring programme entitled 'Southern Ocean Ecosystem Change and Future Projections' in early May 2012 in Hobart. This workshop will focus on the state of our knowledge of Southern Ocean food webs and how these might change in the future.

2012 - IPY 2012 Conference, April 2012, Montreal, Canada - ICED scientists are co-convening the session '1.3.2 Polar marine ecosystems: status and change' within the Polar ecosystems, biodiversity and effects of human activities stream of Area 1. This multidisciplinary session will focus on advances in research in polar marine ecosystem, particularly those relating to IPY. Find out more about this conference.

2011 - III Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences, April 2011, Coimbra, Portugal - Portuguese polar scientists met to discuss the latest scientific results, identify future research opportunities, and obtain information from international organisations. Please read the report on this meeting.

2010 - EUR-OCEANS Foresight Workshop, November 2010, Bremen, Germany - ICED scientists convened a EUR-OCEANS Foresight workshop on change in polar ecosystems. Emphasis was placed on strengthening and coordinating European research in this area. Find out more about this workshop.

2010 - IPY Science Conference, June 2010, Oslo, Norway – ICED was launched during IPY and we convened session T3-8: Ecosystems of the Southern Ocean. Find out more about this conference and about the ICED session.

2010 - ICED Southern Ocean Foodweb Modelling Workshop Report – The first ICED foodweb modelling workshop was held in April 2008. Please read the workshop report.

2009 - New Frontiers in Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research – This ICED sponsored workshop was held at Princeton University in June 2009. Find out more about this meeting.

2009 - Establishing a Southern Ocean Sentinel – The first Southern Ocean Sentinel Workshop took place in April 2009 in Hobart, Australia. This workshop considered how to measure, assess and provide early-warning detection of climate change impacts on the Southern Ocean and how these could be used to signal future impacts on marine and other ecosystems elsewhere in the world. Find out more about this workshop.

2009 - Euroceans Southern Ocean data Portal (ESODAP) – As the result of a project funded under the EUR-OCEANS programme a data portal to disseminate biological data taken from historic Southern Ocean cruises has been produced. The data spans the lifetime of the Discovery Investigations (1925-51) and the Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks (BIOMASS) programme (1981-85). Find out more information about this data set.

2009 - ICED Science Plan and Implementation Strategy – The ICED Science Plan and Implementation Strategy has been adopted and will be published jointly by GLOBEC and IMBER. You can download a PDF from our homepage. Hard copies are also available (limited supply) from the ICED office.

2008 - Modern Insights from Historic Southern Ocean Expeditions – A project has begun to retrieve information from historic Southern Ocean cruises to help build a complete picture of the changing circumpolar ecosystem.

2008 - GLOBEC-IMBER Transition Task Team – The GLOBEC-IMBER Transition Task Team was formed to facilitate the transition to a single ocean research project in the IGBP structure after 2009. The Task Team met for the first time in Reading, UK in July 2008 to begin drafting a supplement to the IMBER Science Plan to define additional science to be tackled by IMBER following the conclusion of GLOBEC. ICED is one of the science programmes involved.

2008 - First ICED Modelling Workshop – ICED convened its first modelling workshop in April 2008 to begin to characterise the Southern Ocean food web. This workshop, the first in a series of ICED modelling workshops, is a first step towards the development of circumpolar ecosystem models to predict ecosystem responses to variability and change. A group of multidisciplinary experts attended this workshop which also forms a contribution to IPY. The report and poster summarise the workshop and preliminary outcomes.

2008 - International Polar Year Changing Earth Day – On March 12 2008, the IPY held its third 'International Polar Day', focusing on the Changing Earth.

2007 - ESSAS Symposium – ICED is focused on the Antarctic but we are also making links with Arctic programmes, such as ESSAS. A special issue of Deep-Sea Research II edited by George Hunt, Ken Drinkwater, Skip McKinnell and Dave Mackas has been published as a result of the ESSAS symposium, Climate Variability of Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems held in Victoria, Canada in May 2005. For a table of contents and access to full text papers. (subscription required)

2007 - EUR-OCEANS Network Steering Committee Meeting – The role of ICED in EUR-OCEANS science was presented and discussed at the EUR-OCEANS NCS Meeting in November 2007.

2007 - International Polar Year Sea Ice Day – On September 21 2007, the IPY held its first 'International Polar Day', focusing on Sea Ice.

2007 - Ocean Acidification Network – SCOR, IOC, IAEA-MEL and IGBP have launched the Ocean Acidification Network .

2007 - ICED presentations at GLOBEC and IMBER SSC Meetings – Professors Eugene Murphy and Eileen Hofmann (members of the ICED Interim Steering Committee) gave presentations on the ICED programme at the GLOBEC and IMBER SSC Meetings in Japan (May 2007) and Canada (June 2007) respectively. Please take a look at the presentation.

2007 - International Polar Year launched – 1 March 2007. Thousands of scientists, from over 60 countries and a wide range of research disciplines, will carry out 220 science and outreach projects. IPY 2007-08 will initiate a new era in polar science.

2007 - ICED-IPY presentation in Strasbourg – Professor Eugene Murphy, leader of ICED-IPY gave a presentation entitled: ICED-IPY - Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics: Analysing Circumpolar Southern Ocean Ecosystems, at The European Launch Event of the International Polar Year 2007-08, European Parliament, Strasbourg, France on Monday 26 February 2007.

2007 - IPY Publications Database Online – The International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) is now available online. IPYPD contains bibliographic records for publications about or resulting from the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 and the three previous IPYs. The database currently contains 60 records and that number is expected to grow to approximately 20,000 records in the next ten years.

2007 - SOS-CLIMATE is fully funded – The Brazilian Council for Research and Scientific Development (CNPq) has announced that the IPY project Southern Ocean Studies for Understanding Global-Climate Issues “SOS-CLIMATE” will be fully funded. SOS-CLIMATE is the Brazilian IPY contribution in the oceanographic field and is part of ICED-IPY. Project leader Carlos Garcia, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande.

2006 - ICED makes the front page of the latest IMBER newsletter – The IMBER vision is to provide a comprehensive understanding of, and accurate predictive capacity for, ocean responses to accelerating global change and the consequent effects on the Earth System and human society. Please read the IMBER newsletter.

2006 - ICED-IPY proposal endorsed - The ICED proposal submitted to the International Polar Year committee has been successfully endorsed.

2006 - ICED Science Session at SCAR - The first ICED science session held in July 2006 at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Hobart was a great success. Further information on the ICED SCAR session.

2006 - ICED Science Planning Workshop - The first ICED Science Planning Workshop was held at the British Antarctic Survey, UK involving 34 participants from 14 countries. A summary was published in the April 2006 issue of the GLOBEC newsletter.