iC3: Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (2023-2033)

Funded by the Norwegian Research Council through it’s Centres of Excellence funding scheme, iC3, officially started on the 1st July, 2023. The Centre is led and hosted by the Department of Geosciences at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and is partnered with The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) and NORCE.

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Our goal

iC3 will carry out an unprecedented research endeavour spanning both the Arctic and Antarctic to fill a major research gap in polar science by quantifying the future impact of ice sheet change on Earth’s carbon cycle and polar marine ecosystems over policy-relevant timescales.

To achieve this, iC3’s team will work across disciplines and unite complementary world-leading expertise with a wide network of international collaborators and our three partners: UiT, NPI, and NORCE.

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Research

iC3’s integrated, interdisciplinary hub of experts studying the cryosphere, oceans, atmosphere and geosphere, will work together to address the hypothesis that changing ice sheets profoundly impact the Earth’s carbon cycle.

The Centre is organized into 5 Research Units (RUs), which traverse ice-to-ocean domains at both poles, and two Impact Themes (iTs) dedicated to innovation, technology and training future leaders.

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The team

iC3 Directors

iC3 Research Unit (RU) and Impact Themes (iT) leaders

RU1: Sub-ice carbon stores
Lead: Alun Hubbard
Assistant Lead: Henry Patton

RU2: Landward carbon fate
Lead: Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon
Assistant Leads: Jon Hawkings

RU3: Marine ecosystem feedbacks
Lead: Philipp Assmy
Assistant Lead: Sebastien Moreau

RU4: Past analogues of warm climates
Lead: Jochen Knies
Assistant Leads: Andreia Plaza Faverola & Mohamed Ezat

RU5: Global carbon futures
Lead: Jemma Wadham
Assistant Leads: Pedro Duarte & Petra Langebroek

iT1: Innovation and Technologies
Lead: Stefan Bünz
Assistant Lead: Tore Hattermann

iT2: Training the next generation
Lead: Anders Schomacker
Assistant Lead: Monica Winsborrow

iC3 Administrative and technical staff

Project Manager:
Terri Souster

Communications Advisor:
TBA late summer

Database Manager:
Fabio Sarti

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Official iC3 website

The official iC3 website is currently under construction and a link to the new website will be posted here when it is available in the late summer/early autumn.