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First published in 24.04.2020

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Werner Kutsch, Alex Vermeulen and Ute Karstens

When carbon dioxide (CO₂) is released into the atmosphere, it will be mixed by…

The oceans twilight zone, the dimly lit part between the sunlit surface and the dark abyss is home to mysterious ways of life. In a recent Nature comment an international group of scientists propose that the exploration of this region should be pursued in a collective joined up way across the…

ICOS continues to prepare its ICOS Science Conference 2020 in September in the Netherlands, in the hopes that the virus situation develops favourably. Decision on whether the conference is face-to-face or online, will be made latest on the 11th of June.

Abstract submission is extended…

ICOS is now looking for a full-time Communications Trainee for summer 2020. You will be based in the Head Office in Kumpula, Helsinki, and report to the Head of Communications at ICOS.

Your role includes: •    Updating the website of ICOS, the ENVRI community platform and…

A study has found that contemporary managed forest landscape in northern Sweden acts as a carbon sink even after accounting for carbon loss due to logging. This study was the first of its kind to determine the carbon balance of a northern forest landscape by combined land and water measurements…

Thanks to the efforts of the Drought-2018 analysis team and the RINGO project,  ICOS now offers through the Carbon Portal two unique long-term datasets with homogeneous historic observational CO2 flux and concentration data from 52 ecosystem and 48 atmosphere ICOS and non-ICOS stations,…

ICOS ERIC is looking for a:

The science integration officer shall form a comprehensive view of the ongoing and emerging research based on ICOS data across the three domains (atmosphere, ecosystem, ocean) to enable ICOS to provide timely information on…

To coordinate and develop the ICOS observation network, we are now looking for:

The observation network officer will work in Unit 2 – Operations and support the Head of Unit in the network coordination and development tasks. The role includes:

At ICOS ERIC, the coordinating legal body of ICOS Integrated Carbon Observation System, we have offset the carbon footprint for all of our staff travels in 2019 and will continue to do so into 2020.

In 2019, ICOS ERIC emitted 106 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent or 6,225 tons per head…

ICOS Head Office in Helsinki seeks an intern for a two-month paid internship in its Operations Unit.

The tasks are related to finalizing the Management Plan of ICOS research infrastructure. Your tasks will include collecting and harmonising task and process descriptions, filling in RACI…