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The ICOS Head Office in Helsinki, Finland, had two 13-year-old students visit the office as part of a Nordic tradition of “taksvärkki”, also known as Operation Day’s Work. During this day, the students get the chance to exercise a job of their choice instead of going to school for one day. They…

In the end of March, the ICOS Cities project brought together scientists and city representatives from all over Europe in a hybrid meeting in Zurich, sharing the first results of the European scientific co-operation.

A mix of presentations, workshops, panel discussions and dinner…

On the 8th of March, a pilot project of the Institute of Global Change Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CzechGlobe) and the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani, Ghana, was ceremonially launched. The project focuses on climate change monitoring and…

ICOS has welcomed Greece and Ireland to the network starting January 1, 2023. The two new member countries brought 14 new stations to the network, which now has more than 170 stations measuring greenhouse gases in Europe and the adjacent oceans.  

“Greece is fully committed to…

International Women’s Day is all about celebrating inspiring and impactful women, and sharing knowledge on how we could do better. ICOS is lucky to have many impressive female scientists in the community. We spoke to Mana Gharun, a former PI of the Davos station in Switzerland and associate…

As the Earth’s largest ecosystem, the ocean absorbs massive amounts of carbon and excess heat from the atmosphere. Despite its pivotal role in climate change, global ocean observations have thus far been severely lacking: a major part of the world’s oceans have never been mapped or even seen by…

African and European research organisations are working together in designing an infrastructure concept fitted for the specific characteristics of the tropics and the African continent.

ICOS has over 170 measurement stations in the European continent and on the adjacent oceans. On the…

As part of the latest ICOS Ocean Monitoring Station Assembly, a QuinCe workshop took place in Paris in December 2022. The workshop gathered 35 participants to receive training on QuinCe quality control software and discuss the calculation of seawater partial pressure of CO2 value in the software…

The mounting pressures due to climate change and the demand for actionable data have increased the urgency for more accurate and comprehensive information about the Earth's climate. WMO, the World Meteorological Organisation, plans to set up an operational integrated global greenhouse gas…

The first WMO International Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Symposium will take place in Geneva from 30.1 to 1.2.2023. The symposium will gather high-level climate scientists from all over the world to collaborate on developing an upcoming greenhouse gas monitoring infrastructure. Backed up by a…