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Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Project

SCOR and IGBP initiated planning for the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) project by forming a Transition Team to plan the OCEANS Open Science Meeting, held in January 2003, to gather community input for the new project. The Transition Team has written a draft Science Plan and Implementation Strategy, which is currently under review. A Scientific Steering Committee for IMBER will be formed in early 2004.

Transition Team Members
 Chair: Julie Hall (New Zealand)
Vice-chair: Patrick Monfray (France)

Ann Bucklin (USA)
Dennis A. Hansell (USA)
Carlo Heip (Netherlands)
Richard A. Jahnke (USA)
Arne Koertzinger (Germany)
S. Prasanna Kumar (India)
William Miller (Canada)
Raghu Murtugudde (USA)
Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi (India)
Hiroaki Saito (Japan)
Svein Sundby (Norway)
Ein-Fen Yu (China-Taipei)

Sponsors: SCOR, IGBP, U.S. National Science Foundation, International Council for Science

Science Plan and Implementation Strategy

Terms of Reference

  1. To develop a new IGBP/SCOR activity in ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystems within the IGBP II Vision for the next 10 years of ocean research. The new activity should be developed in harmony with the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) project and be designed and implemented in close collaboration with GLOBEC.
  2. To revise the Draft Framework Report in Biological and Chemical Aspects of Global Change Research in the Oceans to form the intellectual basis for an Open Science Conference (planned for December 2002).
  3. To organise an Open Science Conference to generate new ideas for the development of the science and implementation of the Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems project.
  4. To use both the Framework Report and community input from the Open Science Conference to produce a Science Plan/Implementation Strategy for the new activity by the end of 2003.
  5. To cooperate with GLOBEC, the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project, the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), and other relevant projects and programmes in the development of the Science Plan/Implementation Strategy.

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