Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research VISION: To provide a comprehensive understanding of, and accurate predictive capacity for, ocean responses to accelerating global change and the consequent effects on the Earth System and human society.

IMBER RESEARCH FOCUS FOUR RESEARCH THEMES  Interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs  Sensitivity to global change  Feedbacks to the Earth System  Responses of society Investigate the sensitivity of marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems to global change, on time scales ranging from years to decades

Focus on Natural-Social Research Interface Bringing together the natural and social science research communities to study impacts and feedbacks between the marine and human systems – IMBER research theme four Focus for regional programmes, working groups, and IMBER- sponsored activities, such as summer schools and topical meetings Developed a Human Dimensions Working Group with the objective to understand the feedbacks between human and ocean systems, and to explore what human institutions can do to mitigate anthropogenic perturbations of the ocean system, or to adapt to such changes

IMBER Research Theme 4 – Responses to Society What are the relationships between marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems, and human society?  understanding the multiple interactions and feedback loops between human and ocean systems.  what human institutions can do, either to mitigate anthropogenic perturbations of the ocean system, or to adapt to such changes

IMBER Regional Programmes and International Network IPO RPO IMBER Endorsed Projects (36)

Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Chairs: K. Drinkwater and F. J. Mueter ESSAS conducts research to compare, quantify, and predict the impacts of climate change on Sub-Arctic marine ecosystems and their productivity and sustainability.  Discussing the formation of an IMBER activity focused on Arctic and Antarctic ecosystem comparisons in their responses to climate change in terms of scales and species distributions/response Chapter in The Barents Sea: Ecosystem, Resources, Management: Half a Century of Russian - Norwegian Cooperation, Dec DSR ll Vol “Understanding Ecosystem processes in the Eastern Bering Sea”, June

Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) Chair: E. Murphy ICED coordinates circumpolar research to better understand climate interactions with the Southern Ocean ecosystem dynamics, in the context of sustainable management plans ICED Southern Ocean Sentinel Monitoring, May 2012 ICED Southern Ocean Food Web Modeling Workshop, in PiO, 102, Sept  ICED online fieldwork mapping tool to coordinate fieldwork, with cruise information and data rescue,

Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators (CLIOTOP) Chairs: A. Hobday and O. Maury CLIOTOP uses a worldwide comparative approach to understand the impact of climate variability and fisheries on the open ocean pelagic ecosystems and their top predator species, in support of oceanic ecosystem governance. CLIOTOP-related chapters in Vulnerability of tropical Pacific fisheries and aquaculture to climate change, Nov  2 nd CLIOTOP Open Science Symposium on Certainty of change in pelagic systems – detection, attribution, prediction and adaptation in New Caledonia, Feb

Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research (SIBER) Chairs: R. Hood and W. Naqvi SIBER coordinates international Indian Ocean research to understand the interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine ecosystem dynamics in the Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) affects the basin-wide physical variability, resulting in a clear biological response, as identified using a combination of satellite-derived measurements →On-going deployment of biogeochemical sensors on Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS) / Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA)

IMBER Working Groups (1/4) SOLAS/IMBER Carbon Coordinate and synthesize ocean carbon research in surface ocean (Andrew Lenton), interior ocean (Niki Gruber) and ocean acidification (Jean-Pierre Gattuso). ’Ocean Acidification’ edited by Jean-Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson (Sept. 2011) and Opening of the OA-ICC (Summer 2012)

IMBER Working Groups (2/4) IMBER/LOICZ Continental Margins Preparing a new ‘Continental Margins’ Implementation Plan to coordinate research in these areas. Leaders: Kon Kee Liu (IMBER) and Helmuth Thomas (LOICZ) Capacity Building To enhance research capabilities in less developed countries and to strengthen graduate education in ocean sciences. Leader: Jing Zhang IMBER ClimEco3 summer school A view towards integrated earth system models. Human-nature interactions in the marine world, Ankara, July 2012 with fifty participants from 26 countries, and from both natural and social science disciplines. Lectures were webcast live and recordings of them will be soon available on IMBER website. See, CBTT workshop Capacity building needs assessment for marine science in the Asia-Pacific region, Shanghai, China, Aug  Workshop results advertised in EOS, October 2012 and to be published in the Policy Forum section of Science.

IMBER Working Groups (3/4) Data Management Encourages the use of good data management practices in all aspects of IMBER research. Leader: Alberto Piola The IMBER Data Management Cookbook (IMBER Rep. #3) on best practices for data management widely distributed to laboratories and research vessels, and is available in English and Spanish at: Data-Management/Cookbookwww.imber.info/index.php/Science/Working-Groups/ Data-Management/Cookbook  Data Management workshop with IMBIZO III (Jan. 2013, to help all participants and local students and researchers learn about good data management practices, and to discuss about management of both natural and social science data.

IMBER Working Groups (4/4) Human Dimensions To understand the feedbacks between human and ocean systems, and to clarify what human institutions can do to mitigate anthropogenic perturbations of the ocean system, or to adapt to such changes. Leaders: Alida Bundy, Marie Badjeck and Moenieba Isaacs ADApT – Assessment of Responses based on Description, Appraisal and Typology ADApT conceptual framework, to help understand and forecast human-ocean-human interactions in global change, and help decision makers consider the suitable responses for marine adaptation to global change.

ClimEco3 Summer School “A View towards Integrated Earth System Models. Human-nature Interactions in the Marine World” Overview of Earth System and socio-economic models Modelling low and high trophic level processes and human interactions Putting people into Earth System models Modelling approaches for marine populations and social networks (Ankara, Turkey, July 2012)  Online videos of the lectures

Future of marine biogeochemistry, ecosystems and societies Multi-dimensional approaches to the challenges of global change in continental margins and open ocean systems  To explore multi-dimensional approaches to the challenges of global change and to move beyond the initial focus of IMBER (biogeochemistry and ecosystems) continental margins anthropogenic perturbations to open ocean human-ocean-human interactions (28-31 Jan. 2013, Goa, India)

Themes: Past, Present and Future Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems; IMBER Future Strategy and Implementation  highlighting IMBER research results;  promoting IMBER integrated synthesis;  developing an SPIS for the next phase of IMBER, in the context of ‘Future Earth’ Call for session and workshop proposals (e.g., oral, poster, discussion with panel, world cafe),  by 15 th March 2013.

IMBER IPO MOVED! IMBER submitted proposal to Research Council of Norway in May 2011 to host IPO at Institute of Marine Research in Bergen (IMR), Norway – K. Drinkwater, project leader Proposal funded in December for five years ( ) IPO moved to Bergen in mid-April 2012 and officially opened in May 2012 during the IGBP SC meeting in Bergen L. Maddison hired as DEO in April 2012 and B. Avril hired as EO in June part-time administrative staff linked to IMR Spring IMBER newsletter was a ‘thank you’ to IMBER host institute at IUEM in Brest, France; Summer newsletter highlighted new host at IMR

Thank you! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IMBER would like to take this opportunity to thank its sponsors SCOR and IGBP for their ongoing support. The IMBER IPO is supported by the Research Council of Norway and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway