The ICOS Germany Annual Meeting 2016 was held at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel from 18th to 20th May 2016. Participants from Germany’s atmospheric, ecosystem and ocean monitoring stations and from the two Central Laboratories of ICOS, as well as representatives of the…

The European Commission has officially launched ICOS ERIC, the Integrated Carbon Observation System European Research Infrastructure Consortium. The inauguration ceremony has been held in Brussels on Tuesday 24th November 2015 when Director General for Research and Innovation at the European…

According to a new scientific study published in “Forest Ecology and Management”, the unmanaged, old-growth beech forest at Hainich National Park (ICOS Ecosystem Station) has a similar annual net carbon uptake as a nearby even-aged beech forest which is managed in such a way as to maximise wood…

An International Marine and Atmospheric Science Symposium, jointly organized by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas was held in Mindelo, Cabo Verde on May 20-22, 2015 to commemorate 10 years of cooperation between the two…