ID
417 : Integrated analyses of circumpolar Climate interactions and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean-International Polar Year
Leader:
E. Murphy (BAS)
Summary:
ICED-IPY is an international initiative aimed at coordinating integrated, multidisciplinary,
and circumpolar analyses of the operation of Southern Ocean (SO) ecosystems.
ICED-IPY will link and coordinate 10 EoIs (SCACE, ATOS, SOSA, Effects of
CO2 on CaCO3 accretion and primary productivity, IFESS, BONUS-GoodHope, SASIE,
BASICS, SOS-CLIMATE, Carbon in Sea Ice*) within a consortium entitled Ecosystems
and Biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean.
Period:
2007-2009 and beyond
Funding
- ARC (Communauté Française
de Belgique)
- FNRS-FRFC (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique)
List
of Belgian Partners involved
-
Laboratoire de
Glaciologie (DSTE),
Université Libre
de Bruxelles, Belgique
- Laboratoire
d’Ecologie des Systèmes Aquatiques (ESA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique
- Laboratoire d’Océanographie Chimique et
de Géochimie des Eaux (LOCGE), Université Libre de
Bruxelles, Belgique
- Chemical Oceanography
Unit (COU), Université de
Liège
Description of the Belgian Contribution :
BASICS
(Biogeochemistry of Antarctic/Arctic Sea Ice
and the Climate
System) is an international project
proposed by the members of the Belgian SIBClim consortium
(Sea Ice Biogeochemistry
in a
Climate Change Perspective)
associated to an international network, that aims to carry out
year-round study of Antarctic and Arctic sea ice physics and
biogeochemistry in order to better understand and budget exchanges
of energy and matter across the ocean-sea ice-atmosphere interfaces,
and to quantify their potential impact on fluxes of climatically
important gases (CO2 , DMS) and carbon
export to the deep ocean. The research will also focus on the
controls on the main biogeochemical cycles in sea ice covered
area. Among them, the project will investigate the iron cycle,
and their link to sea-ice formation and decay, in order to decipher
its impact on the sympagic and pelagic communities and address
more generally the question of iron limitation in the HNLC Southern
Ocean.
In addition, inorganic carbon dynamics within and below sea ice
will be investigated to improve the current understanding and
the budgeting of air-sea-ice fluxes for climatically active biogases,
mainly CO2 and dimethyl sulphide (DMS).
Related Campaigns:
-
SIMBA (Sea Ice Mass Balance
in Antarctica): US led field campaign of the R.V. N.B. Palmer
icebreaker in the Bellingshausen Sea (Antarctica)
from 01.09.07
to 10.11.07
- CFL (Circum Polar Flaw Lead): Canadian led “year-round” field
campaign in the canadian sector of the Arctic ocean (Banks Island,
North Western Territories) based from the R.V. Amundsen, exploring
both the lead sea ice and fast sea ice
from 01.11.07 to 31.05.08
- Arctic Fast Ice in Prudhoe Bay: US-Belgian led year-round
field project on landfast Arctic sea ice in Prudhoe Bay
from 01.10.08
to 30.05.09
Links:
-
www.antarctica.ac.uk/Resources/BSD/ICED/
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www.utsa.edu/lrsg/Antarctica/SIMBA/
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web.mac.com/barber1818/iWeb/IPY-CFL/Welcome.html
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dev.ulb.ac.be/glaciol/index.htm
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