Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research

What is SIBER?

SIBER is an international programme co-sponsored by IMBER and IOGOOS (Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System). The overarching goal is to motivate and coordinate international interest in Indian Ocean research to improve our understanding of the role of the Indian Ocean in global biogeochemical cycles and the interaction between these cycles and marine ecosystem dynamics. This understanding is required to predict the impacts of climate change, eutrophication and harvesting on the global oceans and the Earth System and it is fundamental to policy makers in the development of management strategies for the globally important Indian Ocean. Visit the SIBER Website

Meetings

AOGS - AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly meeting (13-17 August, 2012, Singapore) - Special session OS12: "Physical and biogeochemical processes in the Indian Ocean: Recent progress and toward future collaborations" 
Abstract deadline: 12 March, 2012. 
Meeting & submission details… 

• OS12: “Physical and biogeochemical processes in the Indian Ocean: Recent progress and toward future collaborations”
  Conveners: Yukio Masumoto, Raleigh Hood, Weidong Yu, M. Ravichandran
  Session Description
  The Indian Ocean has been the recent focus of attention in climate variability research, following the discovery of the Indian Ocean Dipole with potential links to the El Nino/Southern Oscillation and intraseasonal disturbances in the tropical region, identification of large amplitude decadal to multi-decadal variations and a systematic warming trend over the past few decades, and clarification of biogeochemical and ecological responses to these climate variations. The Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS) has been developing, now reaching to 60% of its full implementation, and the SIBER project has been recently launched, in which links between the physical and biogeochemical/ecological research are essential. Considering these recent efforts in the Indian Ocean research, it is timely to provide an opportunity to facilitate these activities and discuss further development of interdisciplinary research in the Indian Ocean in the future.
  The objective of this session is to share our knowledge on and to advance our understanding of the variability in the Indian Ocean, including the physical, biogeochemical and ecological aspects as well as those related to atmosphere-ocean interactions. Discussions to facilitate mutual interactions among different research communities will be expected and encouraged.

Reports and publications

2011

• SIBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (SPIS), September 2011.
  SIBER SPIS sept 2011.pdf 3.88 MB

2010

• Report of the 1st SIBER SSC meeting (July 2010). 
  report_Siber1_v4.pdf 3.08 MB
• Ofori L. (2010) Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability, Eos Vol 91 n°44.
  ioSIBER_aguBookshelf_02nov10.pdf 1.05 MB
• Hood R. and W. Naqvi (2010) SIBER Overview presentation.
  SIBER_overview_presentation.pdf 11.41 MB
• Hood R., SIBER Overview Poster.
  SIBER_overview_poster.pdf 6.25 MB

2009

• Wiggert et al. (2009) Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability, Geophysical Monograph Series, vol 185 350pp. (Book)

2008

• Hood R. (2008) Research Opportunities and Challenges in the Indian Ocean, Eos 86 n°13. 
  EOS_2008_Hood.pdf 6.18 MB

• SIBER News, 1st SIBER Newsletter (February 2008).
  siberWintr08final.pdf 2.63 MB

2007

• Hood R. (2007) Eos 88 n°12.
  EOS_Trans_Am_Geophys_Union_88_144.pdf 109.39 kB

 Animations (ask at imber@univ-brest.fr)

• Satellite analyses of the sea surface temperature and chlorophyll anomalies associated with Indian Ocean eddies, by Pete Gaube and Dudley Chelton (Indian_eddies.mpg)
• An animation of chlorophyll variability, by Pete Strutton (Rama_monthly_chl - MPEG 1 - Video)

SIBER members and associate members