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Dr Anna Michalak, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Chair of the ICOS European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) will be honoured with the 2021 American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Joanne Simpson Medal for making “outstanding achievements and contributions by pushing forward the frontiers of…

The ICOS Science Conference aims to bring together scientists from different areas in order to gather and highlight their outstanding expertise and ideas. We welcome all scientists to submit suggestions as session proposals for the next ICOS Science Conference by Monday 25th of October, 2021.…

This autumn, three new team members have joined ICOS. Ida and Zois are now part of the Carbon Portal team in Lund, Sweden, and Charlotta has reinforced the Helsinki head office communications team. 

Research Engineer Ida Storm is not…

The ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC) will participate in the G7 Future of the Seas and Oceans Initiative (FSOI) via a Surface Ocean CO₂ Monitoring Network to help tackle climate crisis in the ocean and above.

The ocean currently removes 25–30% of the carbon dioxide (CO_2…

A special issue of the scientific journal ‘Progress in Oceanography’ highlights a further decade of critical long-term environmental monitoring undertaken at an ICOS Fixed Ocean Station operated by the UK, the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO). The station is operated by the…

The ICOS station at the Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, received high-level guests in June, when the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, and the President of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) Maria Chiara Carrozza visited the station. The guests were…

The 'Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of Integrated Global Observations’, RINGO project has published its final project report. The report reflects the impact of the RINGO project on the development of the ICOS research infrastructure and describes the main results achieved. With its 43…

Helsinki, June 21, 2021  PRESS RELEASE INTEGRATED CARBON OBSERVATION SYSTEM, ICOS

ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, strengthens its presence in Central Europe with Hungary joining the greenhouse gas measurement network.  The ICOS research infrastructure, which…

ICOS, Integrated Carbon Observation System, announces that 12 more greenhouse gas measurement stations have passed the rigorous ICOS quality assurance process for standardised data production. The newly certified stations are located in seven out of 13 ICOS member countries, and in all three…

ICOS has been granted an EU funded project to develop a greenhouse gas measurement system for urban areas. The aim is to bring together and evaluate different measurement approaches, and determine fossil fuel related emissions from the rest of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The 4-…