Useful links
In order to achieve fully integrated biogeochemistry and ecosystems research across the entire food web, IMBER establishes collaborative activities with other projects and programmes so as to avoid unnecessary duplication and ensure that IMBER takes an interdisciplinary scientific approach.
Ocean Interface Projects
IGBP Integration Projects
- Past Global Changes (PAGES) and International Marine Aspects of Global Change (IMAGES) in understanding physical and biogeochemical processes operating in the ocean on time scales longer than the period of instrumental records.
- Analysis, Integration and Modeling the Earth System (AIMES) to achieve a deeper and more quantitative understanding of the role of human perturbations to the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and their interactions with the coupled physical climate system.
Earth System Science Partnership Programmes
- World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and Climate Variability and Prediction (CLIVAR) on the role of physical processes, particularly climate variability and change on marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems and their direct feedbacks on physics.
- International programme of biodiversity science (DIVERSITAS) on the impacts of biodiversity changes on marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems.
- International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on integrating social science.
- Global Carbon Project (GCP) in the study of global carbon cycling.
SCOR Activities
- Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) on the effects of physical, chemical and biological conditions on phytoplankton population dynamics, with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
- GEOTRACES in the global study of trace elements and isotopes.
- International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) in the observations of carbon cycling and storage in the ocean (with IOC and GCP).
Ocean Observation Programmes
- Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) to ensure effective collection and use of sustained observations.
- Argo programme: Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean, with all data being relayed and made publicly available within hours after collection.
Other
- Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry (OCB)
- NSF Workshop on Science Journalism
- Measuring Ocean acidification impacts in the Southern Ocean. More info...
- UNESCO Video: The oceans could be 150% more acidic by 2100