IMBER was initiated in 2001 as an IGBP-SCOR project focusing on the impacts of global change on marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems. In 2016, IMBER became a core project of Future Earth, with the goal to: “Understand, quantify and compare historic and present structure and functioning of linked ocean and human systems to predict options for securing or transitioning towards ocean sustainability”. ocean sustainability under global change for the benefit of society I ntegrated M arine B iogeochemistry and E cosystem R esearch Innovation challenges : Metabolic diversity & evolution, Observing systems, Feedbacks to Earth System, Integrating social science data Improving scenarios, predictions and projections of future ocean-human systems at multiple scales; Understanding and quantifying the state and variability of marine ecosystems; Grand challenges: Improving and achieving sustainable ocean governance; Working Groups Regional Programmes IMBER/FEC Continental Margins Task Team CMWG paper (Glavovic et al., 2015) better understand Margin social-ecological systems; guide sustainable development of Margin resources; design governance regimes to reverse unsustainable practices; facilitate equitable sharing of Margin resources; evaluate alternative research approaches and partnerships that address major Margin challenges. 1 www.imber.info 3 IMBER International Project Office Institute of Marine Research P.O. Box 1870 Nordnes 5817 Bergen Norway [email protected] 1 IMBER Regional Project Office State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research East China Normal University 3663 Zhongshan Road North Shanghai 200062, China [email protected] Working Groups Regional Programmes Other contributors to IMBER science ESSAS ICED CLIOTOP SIBER Carbon Research Continental Margins Upwelling Systems Human Dimensions IMBIZOs ClimEco summer schools •CJK IMBER Symposium > 40 endorsed projects IMBER Scientific Steering Committee IPO, Norway RPO, China 2000 IMBER Scientists from >45 countries Data Management IMBER Implementation IMBER conferences and summer schools 200 students 51 countries Project predicting socio - ecological impacts of global change. ClimEco I. Ecological and Biogeochemical Interactions in the Dark Ocean. II. Sensitivity to enhanced stratification Nutrient ratios / food quality; III. Human impacts on biological carbon pump; Changing continental margins Societal responses to global change; Marine socio- ecological systems. IV.Upwelling ecosystems, Regime shifts, Governance. IMBIZO IMBER next steps Better understand climate interactions, implications for ecosystem dynamics, impacts on biogeochemical cycles and development of sustainable management procedures Carbonate chemistry manipulation of natural Arctic and Southern Ocean pelagic communities (copepods & phytoplankton) in on-deck, single species microcosms Copepods consistently preferred to graze on dinoflagellates under elevated pCO 2 demonstrating that changes in food quality and altered grazing selectivity may be a major consequence of ocean acidification SOLAS/IMBER Ocean Carbon Research CLIVER/IMBER Upwelling Research Human Dimensions Data Management Kon-Kee Liu, Larry Atkinson, Renato Quinones, Liana Talaue- McManus (Editors). Springer-Verlag (2010) Publication: The contribution of continental margins to CO 2 sequestration and the horizontal flux of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus across the margins boundary The margin‘s resilience and fragility, and to institutionalize governance strategies that safeguard foundational life- support systems and unlock opportunities for sustainable development. ICED Integrated Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue Celebrating 50 Years of Indian Ocean Research Target area and relevant processes of Eastern Indian Ocean Upwelling Research Initiative The 2nd International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2 Stakeholder workshops in Japan (2016), Alaska (2017) and Norway (2018) ESSAS 3rd International Open Science Meeting Tromsø, Norway 11-15 June 2017 Tromsø Panarama Photo by Bard Loken, Nordnorsk Reiseliv SIBER Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemical and Ecological Research ESSAS Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Seas Interaction between climate variability and change and human use of the ocean on pelagic ecosystem structure and large marine species CLIOTOP Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators China Japan Korea CJK IMBER Symposium CJK IMBER symposium CJK GLOBEC symposium 2016 2002 IMBIZO V – Woods Hole, USA, 2-6 October 2017 8 th China-Japan-Korea symposium – Shanghai, 2018 IMBER open science meeting 2019 – Call for bids to host To plan a trans-disciplinary research project to address key challenges on continental shelves arising from rapid climate change Continental Margins “Arctic vs. Bohai Sea” Case Studies Kick off meeting XMAS-III, January 2017 & Arctic Science Summit Week, March 2017 Yi Xu 1 , Carol Robinson 2 , Gro van der Meeren 3 , Lisa Maddison 3 , Fang Zuo 1 2 School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich, UK Special issue from the 3 rd CLIOTOP Symposium Climate & cryosphere Geoscience Ecology ecosystem science biogeochemistry Living resources Trade Shipping globalization Law & governance Indigenous & other stakeholder perspectives