IGBP - International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IGBP is an international scientific research program that studies the interactions between biological, chemical and physical processes and how they impact (and are impacted by) with human systems. The vision of IGBP is to provide scientific knowledge to improve the sustainability of the living Earth.
IGBP’s research goals
- Analyze the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that define Earth System dynamics
- The changes that are occurring in these dynamics
- The role of human activities on these changes
IGBP's activities
IGBP is built on interdisciplinarity, international networking and scientific integration. It edits questions where an integrated, international approach is necessary. IGBP assesses a large number of individual, national and regional research projects through the integration of activities in order to achieve enhanced scientific understanding of the Earth System.
IGBP's core projects are:
- AIMES (Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System) wants to understand and quantify the influence of human choice on environmental change and the many subsequent feedbacks and linkages between human activities and the natural environment.
- GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) wants to advance our understanding of the structure and functioning of the global ocean ecosystem, its major subsystems, and its response to physical forcing.
- GLP (Global Land Project) wants to measure, model and understand the coupled human-environmental system.
- IGAC (International Global Atmospheric Chemistry) wants to understand the role of atmospheric chemistry in the Earth System and to determine the effects of changing regional emissions and depositions, long-range transport and chemical transformations on air quality.
- ILEAPS (Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study) wants to enhance the understanding of how interacting physical, chemical and biological processes transport and transform energy and matter through the land-atmosphere interface.
- IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research) wants tudy the sensitivity of marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems to global change, on time scales ranging from years to decades.
- LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone) wants to provide the knowledge, understanding and prediction needed to allow coastal communities to assess, anticipate and respond to the interaction of global change and local pressures which determine coastal change.
- PAGES (Past Global Changes) wants to support all paleo-environmental and paleo-climate research efforts directed at securing a quantitative understanding of natural and human-induced variations of the Earth system in the past, in order to make sound predictions of future climate, environment and sustainability.
- SOLAS (Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study) wants achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere, and how this coupled system affects and is affected by climate and environmental change.
Further IGBP is active in the development of international frameworks for collaborative research, capacity building, guiding and facilitating global data bases or in forming research networks to tackle focused scientific questions.
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Contact
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Sybil Seitzinger International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
Phone: +46 (0) 8 166 456 Email:sybil.seitzinger [at] igbp.kva.se |
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