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What does the daily work life of a climate researcher look like? From field to desk, the human input behind the production of ICOS data is considerable but often little known. With the campaign #ResearchersAtWork, ICOS researchers are encouraged to highlight their everyday tasks via the ICOS…

Östergarnsholm is an ICOS Ocean station in the Baltic Sea in front of the Swedish coast, that measures atmospheric and water-side measurements. What’s it like to work at the station? And why is it useful for a PhD student to take part in fieldwork? Lucia Gutiérrez Loza explains.

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The summer months are the busiest time for fieldwork at many of the ICOS stations. What’s it like doing fieldwork? And what kind of research can you do with the collected data? Caleb Mensah and Khue Vu from a forest station in Czechia explain.

Bily Kriz is an ICOS Ecosystem station,…

The ICOS Head Office has gained two new experts to work in project management and administration. Emilie Hachem brings expertise from the world of startups, while Tommi Pesonen brings his skills gained from banking and finances. Emilie and Tommi will be replacing Leysan Karimova and Vilma…

We are pleased to announce that the draft programme and accepted abstracts for the ICOS Science Conference 2022 are now available online. 

Over 280 oral and poster presentations have been accepted and divided into 25 sessions across the three conference days. You can view the full…

The number of downloaded datasets from the ICOS Carbon Portal has increased by almost 66% in 2020-2021.

The ICOS Carbon Portal is the one-stop shop for high-quality, verified, long-term, standardised datasets on greenhouse gas observations in Europe. It also provides a vast range of…

ICOS and other ecosystem research infrastructures form a global network, called GERI, Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure. It has now published its scientific rationale outlining how its federation of capabilities will, for the first time in history, allow scientists to tackle new…

ICOS General Assembly, the governing and decision-making body of ICOS met in Prague 17–18th May, 2022. In this meeting, the GA, composed of representatives of the Member and Observer countries of ICOS, selected Christian Plass-Dülmer as the new Chair, certified stations, and approved reports.…

A recent international study led by ICOS scientists highlights the importance of human behaviour in the efforts to cut down CO2 emissions.  COVID-19 lockdown measures decreased emissions in European cities by 5% to 87% depending on the area. In four cities, emissions remained surprisingly…

It is our pleasure to announce that the registration for ICOS Science Conference 2022 is now open! The conference is fully hybrid, and takes place 13-15 September at Tivoli, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and online.  

There are two options for participation - in person and remotely. In…