ICOS Talks
ICOS Talks is a series of online presentations and discussions by scientists, for scientists. These talks showcase groundbreaking greenhouse gas science topics facilitated by ICOS data.
ICOS Talks are an output of the ICOS-coordinated Horizon Europe project New Users for a Better ICOS (NUBICOS). NUBICOS is improving ICOS observational data and products for better science and actionable policy. Through improved staff training and engagement, NUBICOS is consolidating the existing and future ICOS community.
Agenda 2026
- 4th March 2026: Constraining European Fossil Fuel emission using atmospheric 14CO2 observations (Samuel Hammer, Head of ICOS Central Radiocarbon Laboratory)
- 1st April 2026: Reconciling the carbon balance of managed boreal forests using integrated bottom-up and top-down approaches (Matthias Peichl, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
This list will be updated periodically with more speakers.
About ICOS Talks
WHAT? Experts representing various fields present a current topic, which is followed by a Q&A session and a discussion.
WHERE? The webinars are organised online on Zoom - a link is provided when registering. Each ICOS Talk will have its own registration page. Each ICOS Talk will be recorded and shared on this page and on the ICOS RI YouTube channel.
WHEN? From March-July 2026, ICOS Talks will be running once a month, typically on the first Wednesday morning of the month.
HOW? Check the agenda for more information and register. The registration link is personal, so please sign up using your own name for each ICOS Talk.
The Archive: ICOS Cities Talks
100 Climate Neutral Cities
Previous ICOS Cities talk | October 2024
Wiebke Pankauke, deputy Head of Unit for Future Urban and Mobility Systems, European Commission DG RTD
Olympics as a catalyst to decarbonise city transport systems
Previous ICOS Cities talk | September 2024
Anais Fabre, French PhD candidate, Griffith University in Brisbane (Australia)
Climate Positive Olympic Games - Brisbane 2023
Previous ICOS Cities talk | September 2024
Dr Tony Heynen, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia
Exploring innovation in climate governance
Previous ICOS Cities talk and panel discussion | March 2024
Talk 1: Kristine Kern (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space)
Talk 2: Núria Solsona Caba (Aalto University)
Panel discussion: Kristine Kern, Miranda Schreurs, Rene Estermann
Developing services for urban GHG monitoring systems
Previous ICOS Cities talk | July 2023
Tatu Mattila, Aalto University
Mapping future emissions based on city climate plans
Previous ICOS Cities talk | May 2023
Ivonne Albarus, Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE)
Towards real-time monitoring of climate action plans
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2023
Kimberly Mueller (NIST) & Amewu Antoinette Mensah (UGZ)
Monitoring and verification of emissions in urban areas
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2023
Prof. Tuukka Petäjä, Dr. Glen Peters & Dr. Claudio D’Onofrio
Urban emission monitoring - general overview of current options
Previous ICOS Cities talk | January 2023
Dr. Dominik Brunner (EMPA), Dr. Ingrid Super (TNO), Dr. Jeroen Kuenen (TNO)
The European drought of 2022 through the eyes of the biosphere
Previous ICOS Cities talk | December 2022
Auke van der Woude, PhD student, University of Groningen and Wageningen University
Foundations of the ICOS Carbon Portal services
Previous ICOS Cities webinar | November 2022
Oleg Mirzov,
Ex-Physicist, Software Developer, Carbon Portal
How the Ukraine crisis impacts energy and climate policies in the EU
Previous ICOS Cities talk | June 2022
Professor Miranda Schreurs,
Chair of Climate and Environmental Policy, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich
How to keep your data tidy, safe and reusable
Previous ICOS Cities talk | May 2022
Maggie Hellström,
PhD, Research Data Management Specialist, ICOS Carbon Portal
Urban airflow/meteorology and meteorological modelling in cities
Previouos ICOS Cities talk | April 2022
Sue Grimmond,
Professor of Urban Meteorology
Radiocarbon as a tracer for the source and fate of fossil fuel CO2 emissions
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2022
Jocelyn Turnbull,
PhD Geological Sciences & Senior Research Scientist
The roles of design in long-term sustainability transformations
Previous ICOS Cities talk | March 2022
Dr. İdil Gaziulusoy,
Sustainability Scientist, Design Researcher & Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design
100 climate-neutral cities by 2030 - by and for the citizens
Previous ICOS Cities talk | February 2022
Matthew Baldwin,
Deputy Director-General of DG MOVE, European Commission
How to organise productive online and hybrid meetings
Previous ICOS Cities talk | January 2022
Jonas Rajanto,
Grape People
Surveying attitudes towards climate change and energy preferences among citizens
Previous ICOS Cities talk | December 2021
Rory Fitzgerald, ESS ERIC
Diana Zavala-Rojas, ESS ERIC
New ways to use eddy covariance to map landscape fluxes
Previous ICOS Cities talk | December 2021
Professor Ankur Desai,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Oslo’s climate budget - a tool to achieve ambitious climate goals
Previous ICOS Cities Talk | November 2021
Astrid Ståledotter Landstad,
Climate Agency, City of Oslo
City emission inventories – state of the art and challenges
Previous ICOS Cities Talk | November 2021
Ingrid Super, TNO
Olivier Perrussel, Airparif
Dominik Brunner, EMPA
Urban eddy covariance flux measurements
Previous ICOS Cities Talk | November 2021
Professor Kenneth Davis,
Pennsylvania State University
