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Ethical guidelines are a way for organisations to guide their operations and define and commit to common values. For scientific communities, ethical operations carry an even more important meaning. The creation of the ICOS Ethical Guidelines was initiated by the ICOS Ethical Advisory Board.…

The Voulundgaard ICOS Ecosystem station in Denmark lies in a cropland located in the Eastern part of the Skjern River catchment. The station is situated in an intensely cultivated area, as is around 60-70% of Denmark. The station manager Rasmus Jensen is in charge of organising the fieldwork and…

The ICOS network of 14 European countries has grown with one new member. Greece is joining ICOS with five atmosphere and ecosystem stations spread across the country. To initiate the collaboration, ICOS invited the Greek Ambassador to the ICOS Head Office in Helsinki, Finland.

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ICOS ERIC is coordinating several EU-funded projects, the latest of which is “Knowledge and Climate Services from an African Observation and Data Research Infrastructure” (KADI) clustering 16 African and European partners. The goal of KADI is to provide concepts for developing science-based…

Carbon Farming refers to agricultural practices that increase the amount of carbon in the soil. It is one of the key ways the food supply system can contribute to tackling the climate crisis, and help the EU and its member countries reach their carbon neutrality goals.

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During COP27, ICOS addressed two critical issues in climate science: the need for a more dense ground-based greenhouse gas observation network and the creation of an integrated global observation system for greenhouse gases.

After passing a rigorous quality assurance process, 10 new measurement stations have received the status of an ICOS labelled station. The newly certified stations are located in Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Greenland and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After the 10 new labels…

The ICOS Science Conference 2022 video is out! This year’s conference, organised in Utrecht, Netherlands and online, brought more than 400 scientists from 33 countries together to present and discuss the latest research on greenhouse gas science. What does the conference mean to the community of…

We are looking for a software developer who can also support the operations. You will be part of our small development team and work on the core Carbon Portal services as well as support running these services. You can get a good idea of the technologies and the (open source) modern codebase…

ICOS is a large distributed research infrastructure (RI). It consists of observational station networks and Central Facilities hosted by organisations in different countries. As such, ICOS RI has a fairly complex organisational structure and management. 

The ICOS RI Management Plan…