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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.
www.imber.info
IMBER RESEARCH FOCUS
Investigate the
sensitivity of marine
biogeochemical cycles
and ecosystems to
global change, on time
scales ranging from
years to decades
FOUR RESEARCH
THEMES
 Interactions between
biogeochemical cycles and
marine food webs
 Sensitivity to global change
 Feedbacks to the Earth
System
 Responses of society
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 IMBERsponsored 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
www.imr.no/essas
(ESSAS)
Chairs: K. Drinkwater and F. J. Mueter
www.imr.no/essas
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. 2011.
DSR ll Vol. 65-70 “Understanding Ecosystem
processes in the Eastern Bering Sea”, June 2012.
Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics
in the Southern Ocean (ICED)
Chair: E. Murphy
www.iced.ac.uk
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. 2012.
 ICED online fieldwork mapping tool to
coordinate fieldwork, with cruise information
and data rescue,
www.iced.ac.uk/science/fieldworkmap.htm.
Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top
Predators (CLIOTOP)
Chairs: A. Hobday and O. Maury
http://tinyurl.com/CLIOTOP
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. 2011
 2nd CLIOTOP Open Science Symposium on
Certainty of change in pelagic systems –
detection, attribution, prediction and
adaptation in New Caledonia, 11-15 Feb. 2013
Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical
and Ecological Research (SIBER)
Chairs: R. Hood and W. Naqvi
www.incois.gov.in/Incois/siber/siber.jsp
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, 23-28 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, http://tinyurl.com/IMBER-ClimEco3
 CBTT workshop Capacity building needs assessment for marine
science in the Asia-Pacific region, Shanghai, China, Aug. 2012
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:
www.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 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.
ADApT –
Assessment
of Responses based
on Description,
Appraisal and
Typology
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, 23-28 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 15th 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 2011 - for five years (2012-2016)
 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 2012 + 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!
[email protected]
www.imber.info
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