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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

An Arctic Coastal Biodiversity Observation Network (ARC-BON) development workshop

På grunn av intensiv klimaoppvarming eroderes de arktiske kystene raskt, og avrenningen fra isbreer og elver øker. Virkninger av klimaendringer på land og i havet kombineres i kystsonen og resulterer i et komplekst og raskt skiftende miljø. Virkningene av denne endringen på kystens biologiske man...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Investigating Spatial and Temporal Variability in Dust Deposition onto Svalbard Glaciers

Målet med dette prosjektet er å gi viktig informasjon om mineralstøvavsetning på isbreer på Svalbard, hvor konsistent støvavsetningen er over Svalbard, og hvilken rolle støv og andre lysabsorberende partikler har på snø og bresmelting. I løpet av vinter-vår 2025 vil vi samle ~10 m dype firn kjer...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Autonomous long-range under-ice missions for light and water column characterisation

Arktisk underiseksplorering med autonome glidere Et internasjonalt team har som mål å revolusjonere studier av fjerne arktiske underismiljøer ved å bruke autonome undervannskjøretøy kalt hybridglidere. Ettersom havisen minker på grunn av klimaendringer, står økosystemene under isen overfor nye ut...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The role of energy budget in a changing world: Are forecasts missing an important aspect for Arctic insects?

The ongoing climatic changes will have undisputable effects on biodiversity and ecosystems. For small ectotherms (e.g. insects) the current state-of-the-art focusses on physiological performances (often measured as critical thermal limits), warming tolerance (resilience) and phenotypic and evolut...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

From winter time to summer time – what ends the "hunger gap" for Svalbard reindeer?

The term "hunger gap" (no: “vårknipa”) traditionally used in agricultural communities, refers to the period at the end of winter when winter provisions are depleting, yet the growing season has not yet started. In contemporary usage, the term also describes the food situation for wild animals, wh...

Awarded: NOK 58,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Akershus

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Shallow waters around Svalbard as nursery areas for fish stocks and an index of environmental changes

Arktis opplever stigende vanntemperaturer over tid, noe som fører til en nordover vandring av atlantiske arter til arktiske farvann. Vil de grunne kystnære sjøområdene på Svalbard bli viktigere som oppvekstområder for de kommersielle fiskebestandene i fremtiden? Det er dette prosjektet ønsker å f...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

SVALCLIME - Deep-time Arctic climate archives

Svalbards bergarter registrerer jordens historie over mange millioner år og kan informere oss om hvordan klimaet endret seg tidligere. Disse inkluderer noen av verdens store masseutryddelser, som den som skjedde for rundt 252 millioner år siden på slutten av permperioden, den største masseutrydde...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Unravelling diversity and abundance of freshwater fish in Svalbard through molecular-based monitoring

Alle levende organismer avgir DNA- og RNA-spor i miljøet, for eksempel fra hud, hår, egg, blod eller slim. I akvatiske habitater er det mulig å samle inn disse sporene gjennom vannprøver, og brukes for å identifisere alle arter som lever der. Også kalt miljø-DNA (eDNA) og RNA (eRNA) basert overvå...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Breeding phenology of Svalbard snow buntings in relation to arthropod abundance

In my master thesis, I will investigate the reproductive success of a Svalbard breeding population of the snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis in relation to food abundance. The snow bunting is the world’s northernmost breeding passerine species. Assessing how species like the snow bunting are able...

Awarded: NOK 75,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Intertidal ecosystem response to an increasingly ice-free Arctic

Warming temperatures and a reduction of sea-ice scour opens the Arctic intertidal as habitat for colonization by both seaweeds and marine invertebrates. Indeed, large increases in the biomass of seaweeds and invertebrates on Arctic coasts have already been documented in the past decades and are p...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Mercury dynamics in Arctic fjord marine food webs

Marine chemical pollution poses known threats to human health and to biodiversity, ecosystem and societal services. The Arctic region is a major sink of global mercury (Hg) pollution. Arctic sediments, sea and glacial ice constitute vast Hg reservoirs. Recent studies raise concerns about their ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Characterising geogenic nitrate source areas in Adventdalen

There has been great emphasis on quantifying the release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost. However, research on links between melting glaciers and permafrost and nitrogen release has been limited, despite its potential as a direct or indirect greenhou...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Wastewater Management in the Arctic – search for synergies in pan-Arctic perspectives for sustainable development of Arctic settlements.

SINTEF, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet og Universitetet i Århus (DK), vil arrangere et to-dagers arbeidsverksted i Longyearbyen, Svalbard, høsten 2024, med tema strategier for håndtering av avløpsvann i Arktis. Arbeidsverkstedet vil samle nasjonale og internasjonale forskere, myndigheter, frivilli...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Svalbard Research Integration for Data and Environmental Modelling

Hva er det store konseptet? Vårt prosjekt stimulerer samarbeid for å forbedre vår forståelse av miljøet i Arktis, med fokus på Isfjorden-regionen. Ved å forene ekspertisene til flere organisasjoner (NIVA, UNIS og SIOS), forbereder vi felles overvåkingsdatasett - fra elvestasjoner til havbøyer og ...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Kongsfjorden System Flagship: Working together to understand an Arctic sentinel fjord

Kongsfjorden, på den vestlige kysten av Svalbard, er en vokter av klimaendringer i Arktis, med oppvarming som skjer raskere enn de fleste steder på jorden. Forskere har studert ulike deler av økosystemet i tiår, blant annet havtemperatur, vannkjemi, sjøis, plante- og dyreplankton, sel og sjøfugl....

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Drone surveys of ice associated seals hauled out on sea-ice during the moulting period (part of ARK)

The most recent population survey of Arctic ringed seals conducted in Svalbard was in 2003. Over the past 5 years, the Norwegian Polar Institute has been developing the techniques, methodologies and field competence to survey marine mammals using UAV. In 2023 a full-scale survey of all ice-cover...

Awarded: NOK 96,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Glacier Surface Topography Mapping for Satellite Radar Altimetry

Radar altimeter satellite missions such as CryoSat-2, Sentinel-3, and the upcoming CRISTAL are widely used for monitoring key parameters of land ice such as glacier mass balance change. The uncertainties of the data from these satellites produced over more complex ice caps and glaciers are poorly...

Awarded: NOK 96,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Field validation of spatially predictive reindeer carrion distribution models, RiS ID 11512

Carrion is a patchy resource in ecological systems, and assessing the distribution and biomass quantity in a system is a fundamentally unanswered question. Our project has gathered spectral data in previous field campaigns in an attempt to detect reindeer carcasses in open, treeless systems by th...

Awarded: NOK 56,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Arctic kelp production and fate (BlueArc field sampling) RIS 12373

Over 20% of the world’s kelp forests occur along Arctic coastlines, yet shifts in the structure and ecological function of these habitats as a result of climate change are poorly understood. Kelp forests are highly productive ecosystems and are expected to contribute significantly to global carbo...

Awarded: NOK 98,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Arctic Cosmic Ray neutron Observations for large-Scale Sensing of SWE (ACROSS-SWE), RiS ID 12378

The project ACROSS-SWE aims to implement a snow calibration on a Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS) that is placed above the snow cover on the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard. Up to this point the approach has never been applied to an Arctic CRNS station and will provide valuable insights into Arcti...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The effect of grubbing and heavy winter rainfall on mycorrhizal mycelium production

Mycorrhizal fungi play a crucial role for both plant nitrogen uptake and ecosystem carbon dynamics and storage. Most of the stored carbon in Arctic soils could be derived from mycorrhizal mycelium rather than from plant litter. As the Arctic carbon storage is suspected to be a crucial factor for ...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The role of vegetation distribution on facies architectural and sequence stratigraphic development of the Palaeocene Firkanten Formation.

The study focuses on how coastal environments control or are controlled by vegetation distribution; collectively, these are particularly sensitive to climate change, with the geomorphology and position of the shoreline being closely linked with local hydrology and associated vegetation distributi...

Awarded: NOK 63,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Who is where? - Unravelling the biodiversity of sympagic meiofauna in and around Svalbard

Sympagic (=ice) meiofauna is an indispensable part of a very complex food web in the Arctic, playing a crucial role for many ice-associated organisms and the whole Arctic ecosystem since sympagic meiofauna comprise primarily of larval stages of seafloor and open-water living animals. But Arctic s...

Awarded: NOK 76,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Improving Snow Data Assimilation with Satellite Altimetry

Despite its vital role in modulating the energy and water balance budget, snow distributions in time and space remain poorly understood. The project aim is to improve the current snow data assimilation state-of-the-art methods by adding snow depth observations from the satellite altimeter ICESat-...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Calanus species complexity in the transitional fjord system Isfjorden: from cold Arctic to warm Atlantic climate.

The West Spitsbergen Current carries warm and salty Atlantic water (AW) northwards, and with high input of AW, more Calanus finmarchicus is transported to the Arctic. Isfjorden is strongly impacted by Atlantic inflow and is ice-free year-round, except the innermost part, Billefjorden, with a sha...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Arctic CH4 consumption responses to future vegetation regimes, RiS ID: 11990

The Arctic tundra is currently undergoing rapid changes with thawing permafrost and changing vegetation. One of the most pronounced effects among the vegetation is a shift towards taller plant communities and higher biomass, which can lead to increased evapotranspiration and drier soils. Methane ...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Arctic marine mammals in a time of climate change: a Kongsfjorden Case Study. RiS ID: 11501

The fieldwork is a component of the NFR ARK (Arktisk Klima forandring Konsekvenser) project, which focuses on impacts of global warming on Arctic endemic marine mammals. The project is using a “case-study” approach based on the Kongsfjorden-Krossfjorden ecosystem, where the objective to examine h...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Linking past and present surge dynamics at Borebreen from drone surveys

Svalbard has a high density of surging glaciers – marine and terrestrial glaciers which undergo cyclical changes between fast (active) and slow (quiescence) flow. During the active phase, ice discharge accelerates and mass loss increases which significantly impacts glacier mass balance. However, ...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Akershus

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Geomorphology and process-interaction in previous and present climate as exemplified by Bjørndalen, Svalbard (RiS 12312)

This M.Sc. thesis project has a primary objective of mapping the geomorphology of Bjørndalen, Svalbard, to contribute to our understanding of this unique Arctic valley system. The research aims to characterize the long-term and short-term geomorphologic processes shaping the valley and analyze ho...

Awarded: NOK 54,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Chemical composition and conditions of cryoconite hole water and melting channels on glaciers with runoff to the Kongsfjorden System

Main objective of this project is a detailed analysis of snow and supraglacial meltwater, including potential alterations in the transition of supraglacial snow to water, as well as potential alterations in the transition of water in isolated to connected cryoconite holes to meltwater channels. C...

Awarded: NOK 31,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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