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SCAR partners SCOR in sponsorship of the new IGBP Integrated Analyses of Circumpolar Climate Interactions and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) programme

The Delegates at XXVIII SCAR urged the SSGs to pay more attention in future in our development of SCAR scientific research activities to the interactions between physics, biology and chemistry in the Southern Ocean. One way in which the biogeochemical side of things is now developing is through a new programme entitled ICED.

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ICED in effect replaces Southern Ocean JGOFS (now completed) and Southern Ocean GLOBEC (to be completed within 4 years), which SCAR co-sponsors. ICED is being developed by GLOBEC and IMBER (the IGBP's Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Research programme).
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SCAR co-sponsors first science planning workshop for Climate and Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean

The science planning workshop for the ICED programme (Integrated Analyses of Circumpolar Climate Interactions and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean) took place at the British Antarctic Survey during May 24-26. Sponsors included SCAR, SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research), Southern Ocean GLOBEC (Global Ecosystems Dynamics programme), and IMBER (the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research programme) which is itself a global programme co-sponsored by IGBP and SCOR). In effect ICED is a Southern Ocean component of IMBER. The goal of the workshop was to produce a science plan. ICED brings together climatologists, oceanographers, biogeochemists, ecosystem and fisheries scientists to generate unique circumpolar databases and models to address three globally important questions:

  1. how do climate processes affect the dynamics of circumpolar ecosystems?
  2. how does ecosystem structure affect circumpolar ocean biogeochemical cycles?
  3. how should ecosystem structure and dynamics be included in the development of sustainable approaches to managing exploitation?

ICED is a natural descendant of recent global programmes with a Southern Ocean dimension: (a) the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), which focused on the carbon cycle; (b) GLOBEC, (c) the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE); (d) a number of programmes of CCAMLR; and (e) the completed Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks (BIOMASS) programme. ICED will collaborate closely with the examinations of the physical aspects of Southern Ocean circulation that are being undertaken by the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Implementation Panel.

ICED group photo

Attendees at the 1st ICED science planning workshop, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, May 24-25, 2005.