SCAR co-sponsors first science planning workshop for Climate and Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean
The science planning workshop for the ICCED 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 ICCED is a Southern Ocean component of IMBER. The goal of the workshop was to produce a science plan. ICCED brings together climatologists, oceanographers, biogeochemists, ecosystem and fisheries scientists to generate unique circumpolar databases and models to address three globally important questions:
- how do climate processes affect the dynamics of circumpolar ecosystems?
- how does ecosystem structure affect circumpolar ocean biogeochemical cycles?
- how should ecosystem structure and dynamics be included in the development of sustainable approaches to managing exploitation?
ICCED 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. ICCED 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.
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