SO GLOBEC
Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics
The fundamental objectives of United States Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC) Program are dependent upon the cooperation of scientists from several disciplines. Physicists, biologists, and chemists must make use of data collected during U.S. GLOBEC field programs to further our understanding of the interplay of physics, biology, and chemistry. Our objectives require quantitative analysis of interdisciplinary data sets and, therefore, data must be exchanged between researchers. To extract the full scientific value, data must be made available to the scientific community on a timely basis.
The ICED
programme (Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics
in the Southern Ocean) (ICED) has a
newly launched ICED website. Contact Rachel Cavanagh for more information.
ICED has been launched to develop a coordinated circumpolar
and multidisciplinary approach to better understand climate interactions in the
Southern Ocean, the implications for ecosystem dynamics, impacts on
biogeochemical cycles and the development of sustainable management procedures.
ICED has been developed with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
(SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), with support from the Integrated Marine
Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) and Global Ocean Ecosystem
Dynamics (GLOBEC) programmes. ICED will lead and
coordinate international research in partnership with the Southern Ocean System
of the European Network of Excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis
(EUR-OCEANS), and the International Polar Year (IPY) consortia: ICED-IPY.
SO
GLOBEC articles appearing in the GLOBEC International Newsletter, Vol. 13, No.
1 (2007)
"U.S. Southern Ocean Global Ocean
Ecosystems Dynamics Program," Oceanography, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2002
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