ICP IM meetings and activities

Last changed: 29 August 2024
Task Force meeting of the ICP IM team. Photo.

The ICP IM holds annual Task Force meetings, usually together with ICP Waters. The meetings cover recent findings, plans for the future, and formal desicions. The meetings are for invited persons only, but the meeting minutes are available here on this web page in a pdf-format.

Previous meetings

List of meetings and minutes and presentations from the most recent ones.

For presentations and minutes of the joint meeting with ICP Waters please see the ICP Waters site.

Task Force meeting 2024

Meeting minutes for the ICP Integrated Monitoring Task Force meeting 2024 (pdf)

Task Force meeting 2023

Meeting minutes for the ICP Integrated Monitoring Task Force meeting 2023 (pdf)

Task Force meeting 2022

Meeting minutes for the joint Task Force meeting of ICP Waters and ICP Integrated Monitoring, 10-12 May 2022 (pdf)

Task Force meeting 2021

The 29th ICP IM Task Force meeting was organised as an online meeting, 13-14 April 2021. 

Minutes of the Task Force meeting 2021 (pdf)

Task Force meeting 2020

The 28th ICP IM Task Force meeting was organised as an online meeting, 13-14 May 2020.

Minutes of the Task Force Meeting 2020 (pdf)

Task Force meeting 2019

The 27th ICP IM Task Force meeting was held together with ICP Waters in Helsinki, Finland 4-6 June 2019.

Minutes of the TF meeting 2019 (pdf)

Task Force meeting 2018

The 26th ICP IM Task Force meeting jointly with ICP Waters was held in Warsaw, Poland, 7-9 May 2018.

Minutes of the TF meeting 2018 (pdf)

Task Force meeting 2017

The 25th ICP IM Task Force meeting together with ICP Waters was held in Uppsala, Sweden, 9-11 May 2017.

Minutes of the TF meeting 2018 (pdf)

Activities

From June 2020 to June 2021

Meetings:

  • Co-Chair Ulf Grandin represented ICP IM in a meeting organised by the European Commission about the NEC Directive, held on-line 4 June 2020.
  • Ulf Grandin represented ICP IM and gave a presentation about current activities at the ICP Forests Task Force meeting, held on-line 11–12 June 2020.
  • ICP IM Programme Manager Martin Forsius and Co-Chair Ulf Grandin represented ICP IM and Co-Chair Salar Valinia represented Sweden in the Fifth Joint Session of the Working Group on Effects and the Steering Body to EMEP, held on-line 14–17 September 2020.
  • Martin Forsius, Ulf Grandin and Maria Holmberg participated in the eLTER PPP and PLUS project meeting, held on-line 13–16 October 2020.
  • Martin Forsius, Ulf Grandin and Salar Valinia represented ICP IM at the videoconference of the Joint meeting of EMEP Steering Body and Working Group on Effects Extended Bureau, 1–3 March 2021.
  • Martin Forsius, Ulf Grandin and Maria Holmberg took part in the eLTER PPP and PLUS project meeting, held on-line 7–16 April 2021.
  • The twenty-ninth meeting of the Programme Task Force on ICP Integrated Monitoring was held on-line 13–14 April 2021.
  • Maria Holmberg represented ICP IM and gave a presentation about current activities, at the ICP Modelling and Mapping Task Force meeting, held on-line 20–21 April 2021.
    Ulf Grandin represented ICP IM and gave a presentation about current activities, at the ICP Waters Task Force meeting, held on-line 28–29 April 2021.
  • Ulf Grandin represented ICP IM and gave a presentation about current activities, at the ICP Forests Task Force meeting, held on-line 10–11 June 2021.

Projects, data issues:

After November 1st, 2020 the National Focal Points (NFPs) reported their 2019 results to the ICP IM Programme Centre. The Programme Centre carried out standard check-up of the results and incorporated them into the IM database.

Scientific work and activities in priority topics:

  • A scientific paper ’Weak recovery of epiphytic lichen communities in Sweden over 20 years of rapid air pollution decline’ (Weldon & Grandin) was published. A summary of this paper is included in the  Annual Report 2021.
  • A scientific paper ‘Assessing critical load exceedances and ecosystem impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen and sulphur deposition at unmanaged forested catchments in Europe’ (Forsius et al. 2021) was published.
  • A scientific paper on effects of nitrogen enrichment on forest vegetation (Weldon et al.) was submitted. This paper was prepared in co-operation with ICP Forests.
  • A scientific paper on Hg and HM trends in concentrations and fluxes across ICP Integrated Monitoring sites in Europe (Eklöf et al.) is planned for 2021/2022.
  • A scientific paper on impacts of internal catchment-related nitrogen parameters to total inorganic nutrient nitrogen (TIN) leaching (Vuorenmaa et al.) will be finalised in 2021.
    The Programme Centre prepared the ICP IM contribution to the 2020 Joint Progress Report on policy relevant scientific findings for the WGE (ECE/EB.AIR/GE.1/2020/3–ECE/EB.AIR/WG.1/2020/3).
  • The Programme Centre and Task Force Chairs contributed to the WGE report on the revision of the Gothenburg protocol.
  • Task Force Chairs together with the Programme Centre and a group of experts from the IM community developed the "IM light" concept.

Activities and tasks planned for 2021-2023

Activities/tasks related to the programme's present objectives, carried out in close collaboration with other ICPs/ Task Forces. According to the WGE work plan 2020-2021, ICP IM will produce the following reports/papers:

  • Scientific paper on effects of nitrogen enrichment on forest vegetation. A cooperation between ICP IM & ICP Forests. (WGE item 1.1.1.17) manuscript submitted.
  • Scientific paper on Hg and HM trends in concentrations and fluxes across ICP Integrated Monitoring sites in Europe (WGE item 1.1.1.1.6), report published in AR29, paper in preparation.
  • Scientific paper on the impacts of catchment characteristics, climate and hydrology on N processes (WGE item 1.1.1.15, listed as: Scientific paper on impacts of internal catchment related nitrogen parameters to total inorganic nutrient nitrogen (TIN) leaching), report published in AR29, paper in preparation.

ICP IM activities on the WGE 2022-23 work plan:

  • 2022: Operationalise and advertise “IM light” as an attractive monitoring protocol, aiming at adding more ecosystem types in the ICP IM monitoring (WGE item 1.1.1.25).
  • 2023: Scientific paper on modelling and assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem impacts, in co-operation with e.g. Centre for Dynamic Modelling (CDM) (WGE item 1.1.1.26).

Other activities

  • Contribution to the revision process of the Gothenburg Protocol, in a coordinated process of the WGE.
  • Maintenance and development of central ICP IM database at Swedish Agricultural University (SLU) since January 2021.
  • Arrangement of the 30th Task Force meeting (2022)
  • Preparation of the ICP IM contribution to assessment reports of the WGE
    Participation in meetings of the WGE and other ICPs.

Activities/tasks aimed at further development of the programme

  • Participation in the development of the European LTER network (Long Term Ecosystem Research Network, www.lter-europe.net) and eLTER-RI (European Research Infrastructure) after being adopted by the 2018 ESFRI Roadmap. The RI is built by the two Horizon 2020 projects “eLTER PPP” (Preparatory Phase Project) and “eLTER PLUS” (Advanced Community project).
  • Participation in the activities of other external organisations, particularly the International Long Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER, www.ilternet.edu).