IMBER

IMBeR
Integrated Marine Biosphere Research
AbbreviationIMBeR
PredecessorOCEANS, GLOBEC[1]
Formation2001
FounderIGBP/SCOR Ocean Futures Planning Committee
Founded atPlouzané, France.
TypeNGO
PurposeOceanography research
HeadquartersInstitute of Marine Research

P.O. Box 1870 Nordnes

5817 Bergen, Norway
Location
WebsiteIMBeR Webpage

IMBeR (Integrated Marine Biosphere Research) is a Future Earth-SCOR sponsored international project that promotes integrated marine research through a range of research topics towards sustainable, productive and healthy oceans at a time of global change, for the benefit of society.

Overview

IMBeR research seeks to identify the natural mechanisms by which marine life influences marine biogeochemical cycles, and how these, in turn, influence marine ecosystems and how anthropogenic activities are impacted and impacts on the oceans. In 2008, it engaged in the GLOBEC-IMBER Transition Task Team (TTT), and upon TTT's recommendations, IMBER entered into its second phase at the end of 2009, aiming at to cover marine ecosystem research with associated latest technical and academic development. The GLOBEC research programme was to be finished by end 2008. Both GLOBEC and IMBER board members held meetings in the UK and the US to confer the plan.[1]

Central to the IMBeR goal is the development of a predictive understanding of how marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems respond to complex forcing, such as large-scale climatic variations, changing physical dynamics, carbon cycle chemistry and nutrient fluxes, and the impacts of marine harvesting. Changes in marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems due to global change will also have consequences for the broader Earth System. An even greater challenge will be drawing together the natural and social science communities to study some of the key impacts and feedbacks between the marine and human systems.

IMBeR International Project Office

The IMBeR International Project Office (IPO) coordinates and organizes international activities of the project, provides a structure for data management for IMBeR projects, ensures financial management of the project, and promotes IMBeR in the wider scientific community. It was inaugurated at the Maritime Institute of European University [fr], University of Western Brittany in Plouzané, France.[2]

Other offices

East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai holds the regional office for IMBeR at their "State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research."[3]

The Ocean Frontier Institute, based at Dalhousie University in Halifax administers the Canadian project office of the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) program.

Publications

The first IMBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (SPIS) was published in 2005.[4] The latest publication of "IMBeR SPIS 2017" has been released in 2017.[3]

  • Pollard, R. T; Moncoiffé, Gwen; O'Brien, Todd D; Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (2011). The IMBER data management cookbook: a project guide to good data practices (PDF). Plouzané, France: IMBER IPO Secretariat, IUEM, University of Western Brittany. OCLC 722790912.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "GLOBEC/IMBER activities". GLOBEC International. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  2. ^ IUEM 2005.
  3. ^ a b Hofmann, E.E; IMBeR Scientific Steering Committee, eds. (2016). IMBeR 2016-2025: Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (PDF). Sébastien Hervé (Front cover design); Enma Elena Garcia-Martin (Infographics design). Bergen, Norway: IMBeR International Project Office. Retrieved February 23, 2020. Authors: Eileen Hofmann, Edward Allison, Javier Aristegui, Bernard Avril, Laurent Bopp, Alida Bundy, Claudio Campagna, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Daniel Costa, Kenneth Drinkwater, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Marion Glaser, Julie Hall, Alistair Hobday, Raleigh Hood, Kon-Kee Liu, Su Mei Liu, Lisa Maddison, Olivier Maury, Eugene Murphy, Hiroshi Ogawa, Andreas Oschlies, Ian Perry, Alberto Piola, Carol Robinson, Tatiana Rynearson, Svein Sundby, Einar Svendsen, Geraint Tarling, Ingrid van Putten, Francisco Werner, Yi Xu, Sinjae Yoo, and Jing Zhang.
  4. ^ "IMBER update". Plouzané, France. Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), University of Western Brittany, Pl. Nicolas Copernic, 29280): IMBER International Project Office; Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research. 2005. ISSN 1951-610X. OCLC 793450446. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)

Further reading

  • Steinberg, Deborah K; Hansell, Dennis A (2010). Ecological and biogeochemical interactions in the dark ocean. Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.02.012. OCLC 824986047.
  • Hood, R. R; Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (Project); Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System; Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (2011). Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER), a basinwide ecosystem program: science plan and implementation strategy. Hyderabad, India: SIBER. OCLC 810126721.
  • Hu, Liuming; Avril, Bernard; Zhang, Jing (2013). "Capacity Building for Sustainable Marine Research in the Asia-Pacific Region: Needs Assessment for Capacity Development for Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research in the Asia-Pacific Region; Shanghai, China, 31 July to 4 August 2012". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 94 (2): 21. doi:10.1002/2013EO020007. ISSN 0096-3941. OCLC 5155416204.