The proposed European-US and South American network IMCONet will advance climate and (eco- ) system change research at the Western Antartic Peninsula (WAP), a region of recent rapid aerial warming. WAP glaciers contribute to global sea level rise, and functioning and services of coastal ecosystems are massively threatened by the fast regional warming. Data sets from recent interdisciplinary European-South American field work within ESF-IMCOAST and from the jubany scientific core programme at King George Island (KGI) will be connected and cross-validated with southern stations on WAP