We are happy to introduce Theresia Bilola, the newest team member in ICOS Head Office in Helsinki. Theresia will be leading the KADI project, a new EU project that aims at improving the knowledge about climate change in Africa and developing tools to combat its negative consequences. Theresia's background is in social sciences and she previously worked as a project specialist at the city level on interpretation and implementing international climate, sustainability and circular economy policies.
At the end of March, the ICOS Cities project brought together scientists and city representatives from all over Europe in a hybrid meeting in Zurich, sharing the first results of the European scientific cooperation.A mix of presentations, workshops, panel discussions and dinner events gave the participants a great opportunity to connect and intensify the collaboration.
Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases. The forest around the station has been managed at least for the last 200 years. During late summer/autumn 2022, an area of 300 m around the main tower (30.5ha) was turned into a complete clear-cut. In April 2023, the ICOS instrumentation was adjusted to the new conditions and the eddy-covariance system was lowered from 36 m to 12 m a.g.l. You can read more about Norunda and ongoing research below.
Sharing data is essential for making your research impactful and generalisable. Giving ICOS data proper credit helps to secure funding for maintaining the stations that produce the data, which increases the quality and quantity of the available data. We have put together a handy checklist on how to cite and acknowledge ICOS data in your data citations, acknowledgements and references.
