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The Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Gothenburg (GU) has an open position for a professor in Landscape Biogeosciences. Landscape biogeosciences deals with the spatial variation (landscape heterogeneity) in biogeochemical fluxes and processes. The subject deals with the exchange…

Due to Covid-19, ICOS Science conference will be organised virtually this year. The dates stay the same as previously announced, September 15-17, 2020. 

We have received over 190 abstracts, and are truly grateful for this impressive interest towards the conference. Most of the…

Both Head Office and Carbon Portal are welcoming new team members this summer to support the ICOS community in various fields.

Maiju Tiiri appointed as ICOS Observation Network Officer 

Maiju Tiiri started working as Observation Network Officer at ICOS HO in June 2020.…

Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS, is the first to release results of a scientific study that shows a large reduction in carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in seven European cities during the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 virus. The study is conducted by ICOS ecosystem…

First published in 24.04.2020

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Werner Kutsch, Alex Vermeulen and Ute Karstens

When carbon dioxide (CO₂) is released into the atmosphere, it will be mixed by…

The oceans twilight zone, the dimly lit part between the sunlit surface and the dark abyss is home to mysterious ways of life. In a recent Nature comment an international group of scientists propose that the exploration of this region should be pursued in a collective joined up way across the…

ICOS continues to prepare its ICOS Science Conference 2020 in September in the Netherlands, in the hopes that the virus situation develops favourably. Decision on whether the conference is face-to-face or online, will be made latest on the 11th of June.

Abstract submission is extended…

ICOS is now looking for a full-time Communications Trainee for summer 2020. You will be based in the Head Office in Kumpula, Helsinki, and report to the Head of Communications at ICOS.

Your role includes: •    Updating the website of ICOS, the ENVRI community platform and…

A study has found that contemporary managed forest landscape in northern Sweden acts as a carbon sink even after accounting for carbon loss due to logging. This study was the first of its kind to determine the carbon balance of a northern forest landscape by combined land and water measurements…

Thanks to the efforts of the Drought-2018 analysis team and the RINGO project,  ICOS now offers through the Carbon Portal two unique long-term datasets with homogeneous historic observational CO2 flux and concentration data from 52 ecosystem and 48 atmosphere ICOS and non-ICOS stations,…