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SIBER

SIBER is an emerging international program co-sponsored by IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research) and IOGOOS (Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System) that is focused on the Indian Ocean. The overarching goal of the SIBER program is to motivate and coordinate international interest in Indian Ocean research in order to improve our understanding of the role of the Indian Ocean in global biogeochemical cycles and the interaction between these cycles and marine ecosystem dynamics. This understanding will be required in order to predict the impacts of climate change, eutrophication and harvesting on the global oceans and the Earth System and it is fundamental to policy makers in the development of management strategies for the globally important Indian Ocean.

SIBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (2010)
Hood, R.R., S.W.A. Naqvi, J. D. Wiggert, M.R. Landry, T. Rixen, L.E. Beckley, C. Goyet and G.L. Cowie (Eds.)
SIBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (SPIS) - Version January 2011

SIBER Book
Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability
Jerry D. Wiggert, Raleigh R. Hood, S. Wajih A. Naqvi, Kenneth H. Brink, and Sharon L. Smith
Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 185, 350 pp., hardbound, 2009, ISBN 978-0-87590-475-7, AGU

Services

Review the state of our knowledge and scientific understanding of the biogeochemical and ecological dynamics of the Indian Ocean in relation to physical oceanographic variability;