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IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. Norge Frankrike

ECOFIND (Ecosystem function and structure in the Subantarctic: the fine scale dimension)

Our work will focus on the subantarctic region, specifically within the Indian and Atlantic sectors of the Southern Ocean. This region sustains an exceptionally diverse marine megafauna guild but is also faced by a growing socio-economic concern (fishing) as well as multilateral political intere...

Awarded: NOK 64,643

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Diversity and dynamics of bacterial and algal communities during snow to firn transformation on the Kongsvegen and Holtedahlfonna glaciers

Firn cores will be collected along a longitudinal transect on Kongsvegen and Holtedahlfonna glaciers (Spitzbergen, Svalbard islands) to evaluate spatial variability and to assess the contribution of marine aerosols to their composition. Comparison of snow samples of 2018 and firn samples from spr...

Awarded: NOK 58,540

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Svalbard Snow Network (SnowNet) - consolidating and expanding the network for future actions

SnowNet was initially developed to respond to the need for increasing cooperation among international snow researchers and to highlight the role of snow in the Svalbard environment and its connection to other Flagship programs. This interdisciplinary research network, including classic discipline...

Awarded: NOK 0.42 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Herbivores in Svalbard: Monitoring Food Access in a Changing Climate (RiS-ID: 11144)

This project identifies ice and snow phenology as important determinants of seasonal vegetation access to herbivores, and centers around the question: to what degree can existing near remote sensing efforts robustly monitor herbivore food access in the high arctic during pre and early green-up? ...

Awarded: NOK 64,030

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

KongElViS: Basal conditions at beginning of Kongsvegen surge revealed using seismic source ElViS

Surge-type glaciers alternate between long periods of slow ice flow, in which ice mass builds up in the accumulation area, followed by a short phase with significantly higher ice speeds in which the mass stored in the accumulation area is transported rapidly downglacier. During the surge phase, g...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Freshwater export in an era of Arctic Ocean freshening and sea ice decline

I FreshARC prosjektet har det blitt analysert hvordan transporten av ferskvann og havis fra Polhavet til Nordatlanteren har endret seg på grunn av pågående klimaendringer i Arktis. Siden 1990 har tilføring av ferskvann til Polhavet økt samtidig som havisutbredelsen har minket. Store mengder av fe...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Kongsfjorden System Flagship Program - Creating a network for further enhancement of marine related research and monitoring in Ny-Ålesund

The Kongsfjord Flagship Program (KFP) is one of the four Ny-Ålesund flagship programs and coordinates marine research in and around Kongsfjorden and Ny-Ålesund. As marine research activities have increased lately both in scope and magnitude, and many of these activities are campaign or project ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Ridges - Safe Havens for ice-associated Flora and Fauna in a Seasonally ice-covered Arctic Ocean (HAVOC)

Prosjektet skal undersøke hvilken rolle skrugarder - havis som er presset sammen og deformert slik at det dannes høye rygger og dype kjøler - spiller som habitat for istilknyttede arter i Polhavet. Etter hvert som havisen blir yngre og tynnere vil en økende andel av den gjenværende isen smelte hv...

Awarded: NOK 25.6 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Ocean-ice shelf Interaction and channelized Melting in Dronning Maud Land

Det antarktiske innlandsisen og de flytende isbremmene som omkranser det antarktiske kontinentet mister masse i akselererende hastighet, noe som får det globale gjennomsnittlige havnivået til å stige. Dette er dårlige nyheter i en tid hvor flertallet av verdens befolkning bor langs kysten. Isbrem...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SANOCEAN-South Africa - Norway co-operation on ocean research including blue economy, climate change, the env

Southern Ocean phytoplankton community characteristics, primary production, CO2 flux and the effects of climate change

Nye oseanografiske data og kunnskap om kysten og iskanten i Kong Håkon VII Hav, Antarktis, Sørishavet. I dag mangler vi kunnskap og observasjoner fra havområdet rundt Antarktis, om de pågående klimaendringene og de konsekvensene det kan få for dyr og natur. Raske endringer i det marine miljøet i ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

INDNOR-India-programmet

Travel Support Request to attend an event in Goa for Indo-European Polar science collaboration Horizon 2020 call on Arctic

This support will be used to gain an opportunity to presnet our experiences in India-Norway collaboration in polar research, and expand our professional network in particular in polar commnuties of India and other EU nations.

Awarded: NOK 8,757

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

INDNOR-India-programmet

Travel Support Request for the event in Goa "Opportunities for Indo-European Polar science collaboration Horizon 2020 call on Arctic"

This support will be used to gain an opportunity to present our experiences in India-Norway collaboration in polar research, and expand our professional network in particular in polar communities of India and other EU nations.

Awarded: NOK 6,744

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

INDNOR-India-programmet

Travel Support Request to attend an event in Goa for Indo-European Polar science collaboration Horizon 2020 call on Arctic

This support will be used to gain an opportunity to presnet our experiences in India-Norway collaboration in polar research, and expand our professional network in particular in polar commnuties of India and other EU nations.

Awarded: NOK 27,334

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The Richarddalen Complex: a part of the Southwestern Svalbard's Province in the northwest? (RiS ID:10910)

We are planning to collect a comprehensive suite of high-pressure lithologies for petrological and geochronological studies. The additional target will be shear zones, where detailed field observations, structural measurements and sampling of the mylonites will be performed. The multi-technique U...

Awarded: NOK 64,866

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Ny-Ålesund Atmosphere Flagship Program: Further development and strengthening of the collaboration

The main goal of the Ny-Ålesund Atmosphere Flagship Program is to increase coordination and collaboration within atmosphere research in Ny-Ålesund and beyond, and to stimulate joint activities, all the above to increase research quality and minimize the environmental footprint. This proposal aim ...

Awarded: NOK 0.31 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The Terrestrial Ecology Flagship in Ny-Ålesund: reinforcement and further development - activities for 2018-2019.

The Ny-Ålesund Terrestrial Ecology Flagship program is one of the four NySMAC flagship programs and aimed at coordinating and integrating research activities on tundra, lake and soil ecosystems in Ny-Ålesund. This proposal will reinforce the Terrestrial Ecology Flagship by establishing a core tea...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The age of metamorphism and deformation of the Müllernesset Formation of Oscar II Land

The project concerns investigations of the age of metamorphism and deformation in the Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks exposed on the western part of Oscar II Land in Svartfjellstranda and their contact with adjacent units. Two week fieldwork will be aimed at measurements of geological structure...

Awarded: NOK 51,473

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Uptake and effects of microplastics in Arctic bottom dwelling marine invertebrates

This research aims to determine and quantify uptake and effects of different types of microplastics in key sediment dwelling invertebrates inhabiting the coastal seas of Svalbard. Investigations will involve longer term experimental exposures,which simulate different scenarios. The scenatios will...

Awarded: NOK 43,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Spatial Distributions of Black Carbon and Mineral Dust in Air and Snow Surface Layers upon Svalbard Glaciers

In this project we aim at evaluating the distribution of Black Carbon (BC) and Mineral Dust (MD) in the atmospheric boundary layer over the snow surface and in the surface snow layers over targeted Svalbard glaciers and to identify the air-snow deposition mechanisms with particular attention to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Effects of pollutants in Svalbard marine mammals faced by the climate change - collaboration between Norway and Italy

Decline in the Arctic sea-ice leads to changes in available habitat for marine mammals. Loss of sea-ice will lead to increased energetic costs of foraging, thermoregulating etc. in ice-associated Arctic marine mammals. Ice-associated marine mammals are also subject to accumulation of high concent...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate Change at the Arctic Gateways

The consortium intends to organise an international scientific workshop entitled Climate Change at the Gateways, to develop benchmarks of ice-ocean fluxes and associated processes at the Arctic Ocean gateways, to identify their role in Arctic change and to develop a reference dataset for model sk...

Awarded: NOK 51,126

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Can maternal exposure to low pH/elevated pCO2 seawater provide protection to the offspring of the keystone copepod Calanus glacialis to ocea

Emission of CO2 from anthropogenic sources has increased at unprecedented rates since the advent of industrialisation. The increased absorption of atmospheric CO2 by the oceans has led to an imbalance in seawater carbonate chemistry and to a reduction in seawater pH : a process known as ocean aci...

Awarded: NOK 41,999

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Svalbard Snow Network

Building on previously funded workshops and pilot project, we would like to ensure the legacy of the Svalbard Snow Network through joint research publications (minimum 5). In order to foster and re-enforce international collaboration, three major goals will be addressed during the workshop: 1) sc...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Pre and Post Deposition Processes of Black Carbon in Snow

The aim of this proposal is to better understand pre and post depositional processes of black carbon (BC) in snow. So far, little research has been conducted to understand the transfer function of BC aerosols in the atmosphere to BC aerosols deposited on snow/ice surfaces. Additionally, little i...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Is the Arctic copepod Calanus glacialis subject to metabolic trade-offs when exposed to heatwaves and ocean acidification

Present day marine environment is under pressure from multiple changing environmental factors driven by global climate change (GCC) such as extreme event like heatwaves (HW) and ocean acidification (OA). The Arctic has been identified as the most vulnerable region in regards to GCC and will under...

Awarded: NOK 75,999

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Predicting the FUture KOngsfjord EcoSYStem, FUKOSYS

The Kongsfjord Flagship Program is one of the four Ny-Ålesund flagship programs. It is currently in the process of developing a structured and integrated research agenda under the umbrella of the Ny-Ålesund Science Plan. This proposal aims to enable the Flagship to be organized in a number of top...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Iron Speciation on Svalbard Ice Cores and Snow, RiS ID: 10632

Iron is an element which has great relevance on oceanic biogeochemistry. In its more soluble form, Fe(II), it acts as a biolimiting nutrient regulating the phytoplanktonic bloom, especially in High-Nutrient Low-Chrolophyll Area, which may affect the cycling of carbon, silica and sulphur as demons...

Awarded: NOK 72,960

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy and Provenance of Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Southwest Terrane, Spitsbergen, RiS ID 10684

This collaborative project between Dartmouth College and Norsk Polarinstitutt aims to test the hypothesis that the metasedimentary strata on Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Svalbard, record two Neoproterozoic global glaciation events - the ca. 635 Ma Marinoan and ca. 579 Ma Gaskiers glaciations. We will te...

Awarded: NOK 75,666

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Understanding atmospheric processes important to the water and energy cycles in the Arctic

This project will bring together atmospheric science groups from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Norwegian Polar Institute to study processes in the Arctic atmosphere that affect the water cycle and energy budget. Work will involve observations, reanalysis data and regional climate models. T...

Awarded: NOK 99,527

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU Norsk Polarinstitutt

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Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa