The ESA Biological Pump and Carbon Export Processes (BICEP) project is an ESA project led by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory. The objective of the BICEP project is to further advance our capacity to better characterise the different components of the ocean biological carbon pump, its pools and fluxes, its variability in space and time and the understanding of its processes and interactions with the earth system, from a synergetic use of space data, in-situ measurements and model outputs.

The development of the BICEP datasets was also supported the Simons Foundation grant 'Computational Biogeochemical Modeling of Marine Ecosystems' (CBIOMES, number 549947).