There are two new full-time additions to the Head Office – Peter Taggart, familiar to the organisation, has signed on as Communications Planner, and Annina Bergman, who has a background in communications and website development, has joined the team from January.
Peter originally…
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We are pleased to announce the sessions for ICOS Science Conference 2024! This year’s conference takes place 10th-12th September 2024 in Versailles Palais des Congrès, France, and online. With the overarching theme “From GHG observations through science to services”, the sessions cover ICOS's…
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Some new faces have joined ICOS Carbon Portal since 2022. The Carbon Portal, hosted by Lund University in Sweden and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, is a ‘one stop shop’ for all ICOS data products providing free access to high-quality and standardised greenhouse gas data, as well as to…
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The COP28 caravan has left Dubai, and while the desert dust is settling, it's time for introspection. Do we have reasons to be COPtimistic? Is this year's agreement text historical, or are the words "transitioning away from fossil fuels" just an empty promise? How do we ensure that…
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In 2023, the ICOS Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) underwent some changes as two long-standing members ended their terms in the SAB after serving seven years. Dr Anna Michalak and Dr Rik Wanninkhof joined the ICOS SAB at the very beginning of the Research Infrastructure, in 2016, leaving a long-…
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The year 2022 saw record-breaking temperatures in Europe during the summer and autumn. Close to 30% of the European continent was under severe summer drought. A study led by ICOS scientists shows that the extreme conditions lead to a reduced net biospheric carbon uptake in summer (56-62 TgC)…
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Grassroots initiatives can effectively mobilise citizens on climate-related issues, especially when addressing young audiences. Using scientific expertise from the ICOS Cities project, Astrid Hügli, a teacher from Switzerland and a former engineer, created the CO₂ module,…
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With other prominent scientific voices, the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) will participate in COP28 to deliver, once again, a clear message to world leaders: a science-based approach to climate action is the only way to tackle the climate crisis. ICOS bears six key messages…
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Euro-Argo, EMSO and ICOS have long been carrying out ocean observations, with each research infrastructure (RI) using its own methodologies, its own instruments, its own data gathering processes, and so on. The three RIs, moreover, conduct observations from different parts of the water ocean:…
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The message delivered in the latest issue of the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on 15 November is clear: greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached alarmingly high, record-breaking levels in 2022. And 2023 is on the same course.…
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