details
- Name
- Integrated Marine Biosphere Research Project (IMBeR)
- Address
- Steele Ocean Sciences Building Dalhousie University 1355 Oxford Street
- Zipcode
- B3H 4R2
- City
- Halifax
- State
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Phone
- +1 902-943-4317
- imber@dal.ca
- Centre Website
- http://www.imber.info
organisation profile
Large global research project which focuses on ocean sustainability in the context of global change. Supports collaborative, disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and integrated research that addresses key ocean science issues generated by and/or impacting society.
History
The project has two international project offices; one in Canada (IPO-Canada) and one in China (IPO-China), and Regional Project Offices in other countries, as well as regional programmes (CLIOTOP, ESSAS, ICED, SIBER) and working groups (CMWG, HDWG. IOC-R, SIOA).
History
The project was originally known as OCEANS and was initiated by the Ocean Futures Planning Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) in 2001. The intention was to identify the effects of global change on the ocean and the most important biological and chemical aspects of the ocean’s role in global change.
The project’s name was changed from OCEANS to IMBER – Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research, and the first IMBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (SPIS) was published in 2005.
During its first five years (2005-2010), IMBER progressed in parallel with GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics). A Transition Task Team was set up to recommend how the second phase of IMBER should accommodate new developments in marine ecosystem research.
When GLOBEC ended in March 2010, its ongoing regional programmes (Climate Impacts on Top Oceanic Predators (CLIOTOP), Integrated Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) and Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS)) were incorporated into IMBER. A supplement to the SPIS was developed to give guidance on the integration of the regional programmes.
At the same time, the Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER) regional programme was established.
In 2016, the current SPIS was published which focuses even more on the integration of marine and human systems. The name of the project was changed to the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research project (IMBeR) to reflect this new direction.
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 5253
- Collating centre
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section (MEDS)
- Latest update
- 21 October 2020 10:45:44 PM