Appendix 6.3
List of IASC Projects, Networks and Action Groups
IASC Projects
plan of the IASC Working Group on Arctic Glaciology.
Recognizing the need to come up with tangible
This WG was also very active in creating linkages
outcomes within a reasonable period of time, in
to related scientific groups (e.g. ICSI) and bringing
the early 1990s IASC being a new organization
younger scientists to their annual meetings/work-
agreed to follow a project-oriented structure. A
shops.
set of international projects with clearly defined
content and objectives as well as a timeline and
reporting mechanism was established.
FATE: Feedbacks and Arctic Terrestrial
Ecosystems
Year of approval: 1996
A project of the IASC-GCTE Arctic Working Group.
BASIS: Barents Sea Impacts Study
Year of approval: 1996
FATE was actively promoting, coordinating and ini-
BASIS aimed to provide an integrated assess-
and international funding bodies with the aim of
ment of global change impacts on cultural and
carrying out truly international research concerned
socio-economic systems dependent on renewable
with the key science questi