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.
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 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.
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]
1 2 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. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 23, 2020. 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.
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. OCLC810126721.
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. ISSN0096-3941. OCLC5155416204.
External links
SCOR Webpage a.k.a. Special Committee on Oceanic Research, an NGO
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