May 31 2010: Annual meeting in Helsinki, Finland
This one day meeting will be held at the Finnish Metreological Institute, Dynamicum, Kumpala Campus.
Registration will open on April 1st.
June 1-2 2010: Annual Stakeholders Conference in Helsinki, Finland
(at the Finnish Metreological Institute, Dynamicum, Kumpala Campus)
Mains objectives of this meeting are to further discuss the building of the ICOS infrastructer and more specifically, to review the applications for the locations of the ICOS Atmospheric and Ecosystem central facilities. Recommendations will be issued. Registration will open on April 1st.
November 16-18 2009: Stakeholders Conference for Central facilities in Roma, Italy
This Stakeholders meeting will discuss the design and recommended future location of the ICOS central facilities. Please refer to documents in the Stakeholders menu for previously published information.
October 14 2009: Legal meeting in Brussels, Belgium
Legal representatives from all member countries have been invited to participate in discussions relating to the future legal structure most ideally suited to ICOS. With the recent publication of the ERIC, this meeting will focus on its possible use for the ICOS infrastructure.
November 23-24 2009: 2nd ICOS ATMOSPHERIC STATIONS INSTRUMENTATION WORKSHOP, LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
A workshop on ICOS Atmospheric Station (ICOS AS) prototype instruments and instruments for future generations of ICOS AS.
We will focus on instrumentation for PBL height determination, a core parameter of ICOS AS.
The main objective is to provide information that will help choosing the instrument to be integrated into the ICOS AS prototype.
June 11-12 2009: Meeting network design in Paris, France
The meeting aimed to synthesize the work done on network design within the IMECC and ICOS projects and to update the ICOS workplan reflecting this synthesis.
The meeting produced a series of planned enhancements to the IMECC network design tool and plans for a workshop for ICOS participants and Stake-holders in Amsterdam in Spring 2010.
May 25 2009: The 2
May 13-14 2009 : ICOS Stakeholders Conference, Paris, France
May 12 2009 : ICOS Annual Project Meeting, Paris, France
April 17 2009: Update on the development progress of ICOS atmospheric stations
Ongoing work includes development of the station's design (e.g. plumbing, operation modes, instrument synchronisation,
flask size and sample protocol, etc.) and evaluation of the instrumentation
(CO and CO2/CH4/H2O analyzers at LSCE and flask sampler at MPI-BGC).
The 2nd test campaign of boundary layer height instrumentation will take place at Mace Head, Ireland in June 2009.
A first ICOS Report is summarizing evaluation tests of CRDS CO2/CH4/H2O instrumentation
performed at LSCE in 2008.
The report will be available to the public by the ICOS Annual Project Meeting & Stakeholders Conference (12-14 May 2009, Paris, France).
January 2009: The launch of CARBOSCOPE, A new web tool for GHG monitoring.
As a part of the "Carbon Portal", CARBOSCOPE, provides a user friendly and interactive interface to compare
CO2 and CH4 fluxes supplied by various European researchers and compare them over various regions and time scales.
CARBOSCOPE will be regularly updated via future releases.
CARBOSCOPE can be accessed through the "Carbon Portal" sub-menu or by
direct link: <www.carboscope.eu>
December 9-10, 2008 : European Conference on Rresearch Infrastrucutres , Versailles, France
The Fifth European Conference on Research Infrastrucutres, ECRI 2008 ,
took place this past December 9th and 10th, 2008.
In the framework of the French Presidency of the European Council, the conference was jointly
organised by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the European Commission, in cooperation with ESFRI.
ICOS was invited to participate along with other ESFRI Research Infrastructures
(ESFRI) from the October 2006 roadmap.
We were given a stand in which to present our information about the project and the instrumentation for the ICOS atmospheric stations.
The objective was to facilitate and increase an association between the project managers of large-scale European research
equipment and the industrial companies looking to supply or to use these infrastructures.
May 19-20 2008 : ICOS first Stakeholders Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
details under menu "Meetings"
May 20 2008 : ICOS Kick-off Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
details under menu "Meetings"
January 29-31 2008 : ICOS brainstorming workshop for PIs, Nice, France
details under menu "Meetings"
May 2007 : the ICOS preparatory phase proposal
A proposal for developing the preparatory phase of the ICOS infrastructure is submitted, led by P. Ciais. The challenge of the preparatory phase is to develop and secure technological choices for the network instruments and the central facilities, to asess the data architechture and user services provided by the Research Infrastructure, to refine and detail the building, comissioning and operating costs of ICOS, and to develop a financial, legal and governance model for the infrastructure
November 2006 : CARBOEUROPE joins ICOS
The general assembly of the CARBOEUROPE-IP program give its support to the development of ICOS, which should organize and sustain in the future operational systematic data gathering whereas research programs like CARBOEUROPE-IP would concentrate on basic research. The transition between research and operations is foreseen to take place not before 2011 if ICOS is sucesfully brought into operation by then.
October 2006 : ICOS is designated by the ESFRI roadmap
The ESFRI roadmap report establishes a list of scientific needs of the research infrastructures for the next 10-20 years, taking into account inut from relevant inter-governmental research organizations as well as the inudstrial community. These Infrastructures are of different size and scope and cover the different fields of Science. Among five other research infrastructures in the domain of Environmental Sciences, ICOS is selected in the strategic ESFRI roadmap
February 2006 : ICOS audition by the ESFRI working group
E.D. Schulze, A. Freibauer and P. Ciais, on behalf of the ICOS steering group, present the ICOS vision, maturity, technological and scientific challenges in front of the ESFRI working group dealing with reserach infrastructures in the area of Environmental Sciences
December 2005 : the ICOS vision
In a first document is developed the vision of a European carbon observing system that is designed and built to become operational for the next 20 years for understanding the carbon cycle and its underlying processes. Rough costs estimates are provided and the concept of central facilities upon which can be founded and sustained a network meant to grow organically in the future, is elaborated. The transition between the sucessful CARBOEUROPE research network and a longer term unified Research Infrastructure is foreseen
October 2005 : a first contact is made with ESFRI
During a workshop entitled 'Future need of research infrastructures in Environmental Sciences' and organized by the European Comission in Brussels on 19 01 2005, the case of carbon observation networks is brought up to the ESFRI panel and to the EU. Most of our knowledge of the carbon cycle and its perturbation by man and climate stems from long term, calibrated, and continuous mesurements of the atmospheric concentrations and ecoystem parameters. Integrating the research networks of eddy-covariance flux towers and atmospheric observatories is first suggested. Europe lacks such an integrated carbon observing system, part of a global network of in-situ and satellite observations
