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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…

ICOS is taking part in the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt 7.–18.11.2022.  As an Observer, ICOS is present to highlight the need for a global observation network to have a scientific base for decisions, and to remind of the need…

The ICOS ecosystem station Gebesee in Germany collects important data on the carbon cycle of agricultural land in Europe. When the crops change every year, so do the fieldwork methods. How does the station personnel adapt to new crops every year?

Gebesee is an ICOS ecosystem station in the…

ATMO-ACCESS is a European project aiming at creating opportunities for a sustainable provision of access to Europe’s most advanced facilities for observation and exploration in atmospheric science. This third TransNational Access Call will allow researchers, entrepreneurs, developers and project…

Ankur Desai, professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently awarded the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2022 Joanne Simpson Medal for Mid-Career Scientists — one of the highest honors bestowed by AGU. Desai, who will also be conferred…

Due to the damage to the Nord Stream gas lines in the Baltic Sea, an enormous amount of methane gas has been released into the atmosphere. The leak is estimated to equal the size of a whole year's methane emissions for a city the size of Paris or a country like Denmark. 

The methane…

In 2023 ICOS will organise the already 6th edition of the ICOS Summer School. It will be held at Hyytiälä forest field station in Finland from 24 May until 2 June 2023. Application is open until 1 December 2022. Decision on participation will be communicated mid December 2022. More information…