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IMBER at its most fundamental Interactions, Sensitivities, Feedbacks
IMBER SSC Julie Hall (Chair), New Zealand Dennis Hansell (Vice-Chair), USA Patrick Monfray (Vice-Chair), France Ann Bucklin, USA Jay Cullen, Canada Wilco Hazeleger, Netherlands David Hutchins, USA Arne Körtzinger, Germany Carina Lange, Chile Jack Middelburg, Netherlands Coleen Moloney, South Africa Wajih Naqvi, India Raymond Pollard, United Kingdom Hiroaki Saito, Japan Carol Turley, United Kingdom Jing Zhang, China Brest, 2006
IMBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy,
Theme 1 Interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs
Theme 1: Interactions between biogeochemical cycles and marine food webs Issues: 1.Transformation of organic matter in marine food webs 2.Transfers of matter across ocean interfaces 3.End-to-end food webs and material flows (IMBER/GLOBEC) What are the key marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem processes, and their interactions, that will be impacted by Global Change?
Theme 2 Sensitivity to Global Change
Theme 2: Sensitivity to Global Change Issues: 1.Impacts of climate-induced changes through physical forcing and variability 2.Effects of increasing anthropogenic CO 2 and changing pH on marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems and their interactions (IMBER/SOLAS: Joint Implementation plan) … What are the responses of key marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems and their interactions to global change?
…Issues: 3.Effects of changing supplies of macro- and micronutrients 4.Impacts of harvesting of marine resources on end-to- end food webs and biogeochemical cycles (IMBER/GLOBEC) Theme 2. Sensitivity to Global Change
Theme 3 Feedbacks to the Earth System
Theme 3. Feedbacks to the Earth System Issues: 1. Oceanic storage of anthropogenic CO 2 2. Ecosystem feedback on ocean physics and climate What is the role of ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystems in regulating climate?
Theme 4: Responses of Society Plan for Workshop to develop the issues and questions for this theme Bring together natural and social sciences communities What are the relationships between marine biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems, and the human system?
IMBER International Project Office European Institute for Marine Studies Brest, France Elena Fily Admin. Assist. Dr. Sylvie Roy Executive Officer Sophie Beauvais Deputy Exec. Off.
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Working groups Joint SOLAS/IMBER Carbon Group End-to-End Food web Task Team Joint LOICZ/IMBER Continental Margins Task Team Capacity Building Task Team Data Management Committee
Joint SOLAS-IMBER Carbon group Membership: Arne Körtzinger (Germany, co-Chair) Truls Johannessen (Norway, co-Chair) Niki Gruber (Switzerland) Nicolas Metzl (France) Britton Stephens (USA) Gerhard Herndl (Netherlands) Ken Johnson (USA) Kitack Lee (Korea) Kevin Arrigo (USA) Toshiro Saino (Japan) Hermann Bange (Germany) Dick Feely (USA)
Carbon Sub-groups 1. Surface ocean systems Chair: Nicolas Metzl (France) Surface pCO 2 Workshop (UNESCO, Paris, April 2007) 2. Interior ocean carbon storage Chair: Nicolas Gruber (Switzerland) (i) Friends of Argo Task Team - promote the addition of oxygen sensors to the international ARGO float program (ii) Broaden the synthesis effort initiated by CARBOOCEAN for the Atlantic Ocean (Iceland, June 28-30, 2006)
Continental Margins Task Team (IMBER/LOICZ) Open Science Conference in late 2007, Shanghai, China Membership: Nancy Rabalais (USA, co-chair) Jack Middelburg (Netherlands, co-chair) KK Liu (Taiwan) Kai Wirtz (Germany) Francois Carlotti (France) Jing Zhang (China) Helmuth Thomas (Canada) Katja Fennel (USA) Burke Hales (USA) Isabelle Niang-Diop (Senegal)
China 5 year funding IMBER/GLOBEC programme. Hosting the Second LME India Impact of anthropogenic perturbations on oceanographic and atmospheric processes in and around India in context of global change; SIBER workshop in October Japan IMBER-JAPAN established under the Science Council of Japan (2004-), chaired by H. Saito. North West Pacific cruise has been funded for Summer New Zealand Two funded research cruises in permanently oligotrophic regions to north west of New Zealand focused on N cycling in this region Chile Currently funded COPAS programme is a contribution to IMBER France Currently funded for three years CYBER programme "CYcles Biogéochimiques, Ecosystèmes et Ressources". ( ) Netherlands Programme under development with joint IMBER /SOLAS cruise planned Germany Planning for new programme for 2007 Spain Developing a co-sponsored proposal with The Netherlands for a “Deep-water Oceanography” project. Holding a Spanish IMBER symposium in March UK Plans for IMBER contribution in new funding round 2007 USA A new “Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry” group has been formed in 2006 IMBER National Activities