We are very happy to welcome Prof. Diana Ruiz-Pino as the new Chair of the IMBeR Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). She officially took over as chair at the SSC meeting on 3 August 2022. Diana is an Associate Professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, and has more than 30 years’ teaching and research experience in marine biogeochemistry…
IMBeR’s regional programme, CLIOTOP, welcomes new co-chairs Anne Lorrain and Heidi Pethybridge. Both Anne and Heidi are marine trophic ecologists with additional experience in ecosystem modelling and biogeochemical tracers. Heidi has been involved in CLIOTOP activities since 2014, and she and Anne look forward to serving on the SSC. Many thanks to outgoing co-chairs Karen…
IMBeR Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and community members contributed to the 2022 UN Ocean Conference that took place in Lisbon, Portugal in late June and early July. Ocean Negative Carbon Emission and Sustainable Development https://once.xmu.edu.cn/__local/F/23/E5/35D2D279416EB0E00311D4F40F3_449B5A20_1653F571.mp4?e=.mp4 The event focused on addressing, in particular, ocean negative carbon emission (ONCE) approaches and relevant ocean-based solutions for the mitigation…
Authors: Rebecca J. Shellock, Christopher Cvitanovic, Mary Mackay, Merryn C. McKinnon, Jessica Blythe, Rachel Kelly, Ingrid E. van Putten, Paris Tuohy, Megan Bailey, Alpina Begossi, Beatrice Crona, Kafayat A. Fakoya, Beatrice P. Ferreira, Alice J.G. Ferrer. Katia Frangoudes, Judith Gobin, Hong ChingGoh, Paivi Haapasaari, Britta Denise Hardesty, Vreni Häussermann, Kelly Hoareau, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Moenieba Isaacs,…
IMBeR would like to thank James Orr for his amazing contribution to the SOLAS-IMBeR Ocean Acidification (SIOA) working group. Jim’s impact as chair of the working group, over many years, has been incredible. We welcome Sam Dupont, who has taken over as chair of the SIOA working group. Sam Dupont is an associate professor and senior…
Congratulations to Prof. Carol Robinson, outgoing IMBeR Scientific Steering Committee Chair, on receiving the 2022 Challenger Medal from The Challenger Society. The award is for a distinguished UK marine scientist or other person who has made a single major contribution, or a sustained contribution, to the development of marine science, or whose innovation has opened…
IMBeR (Integrated Marine Biosphere Research) is seeking a host for its next Open Science Conference – Future Oceans3 – which will be held in 2024. The five-day conference will be preceded by two days of workshops and will provide a focus for the integration and synthesis of IMBeR research activities with the goal of providing…
Figure above: The temporal evolution of extreme events in the Northeast Pacific. Shown is a time series of the fractional area (20° N–60° N, 115° W–155° W) that is subject to a marine heatwave (light orange), a dual compound event (dark orange or purple) or triple compound event (grey). An event contributes to this metric…
We are delighted to welcome the following new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members: Derek Armitage Nina Bednaršek Jingling Ren Samiya Selim (Early Career Representative) Lynne Shannon We are also very pleased to have Dongyan Liu and Boris Worm join us as SSC liaisons with the host institutes our International Project Offices in China and Canada,…
Figure above: Lofoten fishery, at the island Røst, taken by Olav Kjesbu, 2018 Authors: Kjesbu, O. S., Sundby, S., Sandø, A. B., Alix, M., Hjøllo, Solfrid S., Tiedemann, M., Skern-Mauritzen, M., Junge, C., Fossheim, M., Thorsen Broms, C., Søvik, G., Zimmermann, F., Nedreaas, K., Eriksen, E., Höffle, H., Hjelset, Ann M., Kvamme, C., Reecht, Y.,…