Cities are hot spots for anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions - however, cities are also areas where GHG emission reduction efforts will show first and most significant changes in the atmosphere. Developing methods to independently monitor…
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ICOS ERIC, the coordinating legal body of ICOS Integrated Carbon Observation System, has joined the UN ‘Climate Neutral Now’. This initiative invites companies, organisations, governments and citizens to measure, reduce and compensate their greenhouse gas emissions to further help implement the…
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ICOS Head Office organisation changes. The Head of Operations, Eija Juurola has decided to pursue other challenges outside ICOS. Her last day with ICOS will be on February 28, 2019.
As a consequence, Senior Scientific Officer Dr Jouni Heiskanen has been appointed as Interim Head of…
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ENVRI-FAIR, a new EU Horizon 2020 project supporting the collaboration of environmental and Earth system research infrastructures has been launched on 1st of January 2019.
ENVRI-FAIR is a four-year project running until December 2022. The overarching goal is that at the end of the…
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The standardisation of greenhouse gas observations is urgently needed to allow reliable climate change research and is thus a key feature of ICOS. Over the last years, extensive discussions within the ecosystem community have yielded a coherent set of protocols for standardised observations at…
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ICOS, Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe, announces that 15 new greenhouse gas measurement stations have been certified for standardized data production. ICOS data helps to reveal the carbon emissions and sinks on a European level. Data is essential to predict climate change and to…
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The European Commission has officially launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) on the 23rd November 2018. The Cloud will provide a safe environment for researchers to store, analyse and re-use data for research, innovation and educational purposes.
The launch event in Vienna,…
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The extended abstract deadline is now very near, less than a week to go until 1 December 2018
ICOS scientists and ICOS observations again contributed to the annual and now 14th WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that was released today 22 November 2018. The back cover of this Bulletin has a section on the ICOS atmospheric network that has now joined the global WMO GAW network as…
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