Integrated Land-Ecosystem Atmosphere Process Study (iLEAPS)

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Future Earth is a major global research programme, which evolved from previous international programmes on human development, climate change, global environmental change and biodiversity. The integrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Process Study (iLEAPS) is a core project of Future Earth.As humans are now one of the strongest influences on climate and the environment, this second phase of iLEAPS (2014- 2024) is moving from research on natural pristine environments to investigating the interactions between natural and human environments. The project will also investigate the complex set of interactions that exist between the climate system, atmospheric composition/air quality, land use and land cover changes, socioeconomic development, and human decision-making. The research will provide information of relevance to the 8 key focal challenges identified by Future Earth in its 2014 Strategic Research Agenda:1. Deliver water, energy and food for all.2. Decarbonize socio-economic systems to stabilize the climate3. Safeguard the terrestrial, freshwater and marine natural assets4. Build healthy, resilient and productive cities5. Promote sustainable rural futures to feed rising and more affluent populations6. Improve human health through the improvement of human-environment interactions7. Encourage sustainable and equitable consumption and production patterns8. Increase social resilience to future threatsiLEAPS acts as a communication hub and coordinator of world-wide scientific research in the field of ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges and the impact of those exchanges on the 8 societal challenges. iLEAPS promotes scientific excellence through developing international science initiatives that are multi-disciplinary, through bringing together the modelling community with satellite, experimental and field observational experts and through enabling communication and networking across the international science community.iLEAPS promotes leadership in science through capacity building in developing countries and support to young or Early Career scientists by hosting workshops, ensuring timely and relevant science to be available through their website and through training programmes.The NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) is taking over the iLEAPS International Project Office during 2016. CEH will undertake the activities below to enhance the impact of the iLEAPS project:1 .IPO Operation and Co-ordination Activities* Work with the iLEAPS Scientific Steering Committee to deliver the iLEAPS Science Plan and Priority Research Topics* Maintain and enhance connections with relevant international projects, regional and national iLEAPS offices, providing advocacy and enlisting wide international participation* Promote capacity building through support of the Early Career Scientist network and supporting workshops and regional networks in the developing world* Work with Future Earth through national and international committees to deliver their vision* Secure additional funding to support these activities2. Communication* Maintain and co-ordinate input to the iLEAPS website* Host, support and fund workshops and conferences3. Science leadership* Start new, and maintain existing, Science Initiatives and Projects 4. Science Products* Generate integrated products for the world-wide community* Create new analysis tools for analysing data from experimental and field observations, satellites and computer models