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June 2009 - New Frontiers in Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research – This ICED sponsored workshop was held at Princeton University in June 2009. For more information, see the meeting website here.

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. For further details please see the Sentinel website.

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). The website will be updated as data are made available.

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. For more information see the project factsheet

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. For further details see the article on page 2 of the GLOBEC Newsletter

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. A report of the workshop will be available on this website in due course. In the meantime, this poster summarises 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. To read more about this visit the Changing Earth Day pages and the ICED news story.

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) visit this link.

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. For more information EUR-OCEANS NSC web pages. The report from the Scientific Council is available to download here.

2007 - GLOBEC Newsletter – The October 2007 issue of the GLOBEC International Newsletter is now available from the GLOBEC website. Download PDF.

2007 - International Polar Year Sea Ice Day – On September 21 2007, the IPY held its first 'International Polar Day', focusing on Sea Ice. To read more about ICED-IPY's contribution visit the Sea Ice Day pages and ICED-IPY Sea Ice page.

2007 - Ocean Acidification Network – SCOR, IOC, IAEA-MEL and IGBP have launched the Ocean Acidification Network: http://www.ocean-acidification.net/

2007 - International Symposium on Asian Collaboration in the IPY – The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Asian Collaboration in IPY are now available from the Symposium website: http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~ipy/sympo/

2007 - Surface Ocean Carbon Dioxide Variability and Vulnerabilities Report – The committee for the Surface Ocean Carbon Dioxide Variability and Vulnerabilities (SOCOVV) workshop, held at UNESCO in Paris (April 11-14 2007), and sponsored by the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP), Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) and the Global Carbon Project (GCP), is pleased to announce the online publication of the workshop report. Download report.

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. Download presentation.

2007 - Southern Ocean Science – The April 2007 issue of the GLOBEC International Newsletter, with a special 37-page section on Southern Ocean science, is now available from the GLOBEC website. Download PDF.

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. Download presentation.

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. Access the database.

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. Project website http://www.goal.ocfis.furg.br See also ICED-IPY page.

2006 - ICED makes the front page of the latest IMBER newsletter – Download PDF
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. For more information visit the IMBER site.

2006 - ICED-IPY proposal endorsed - The ICED proposal submitted to the International Polar Year committee has been successfully endorsed.
See ICED-IPY page for more details.

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. Download PDF