Welcome to the ICORUMBA website
What is ICORUMBA? This consortium is led by seven scientists at five universities. These include Bruce Menge and Jane Lubchenco at Oregon State University, Steve Gaines at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Sergio Navarrete and Juan Carlos Castilla at Pontificia Universidad de Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Dave Schiel at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), and George Branch at Cape Town University (Cape Town, South Africa).
What are the goals of ICORUMBA? Our aim is to gain insight into the dynamics of marine coastal ecosystems across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Our approach is to carry out research on local to regional to continental scales within each of several distinct rocky intertidal and adjacent inner shelf habitats, and to integrate the results of these studies in the search for general organizing principles for such ecosystems at interhemispheric to global scales. A particular focus is on upwelling systems and on how ecosystem dynamics vary along upwelling gradients.
Who supports the ICORUMBA? The consortium members enjoy the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through grants awarded to each institution in support of graduate student and postdoctoral research activities. In addition to support for students and postdocs at each member’s campus, there is support for student exchange between campuses to encourage comparative perspectives in research projects.
What research is being done? Click on the links below to visit pages for each research group and to go to sites of groups with whom the ICORUMBA members collaborate.
