SO-CHIC and OCEAN:ICE Join Forces

Research consortiums on processes in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. With Jean-Baptiste Sallée. Two important European projects have joined together to bridge knowledge gaps regarding climate changes in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean. Supported by the European Commission (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programs), these two large research consortiums spent four days developing joint projects at the Sorbonne University International Conference Center. It marked the launch of the collaboration between SO-CHIC¹  and OCEAN-ICE²  as well as the SO-CHIC annual meeting. This impressive European effort gather in total 24 research institutes across the two consortiums and decided to join forces to address major climate question in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Jean-Baptiste Sallée, oceanographer at the LOCEAN lab based at Sorbonne Université, and coordinator of the SO-CHIC consortium, points out, "We understood that there were some major key knowledge gaps that required unprecedented, joint efforts across Europe.