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HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Gobies in Evolutionary Ecology: a Nordic Network

The main aim of this proposal is to further develop Nordic collaborative efforts and exchange of ideas in the study of evolutionary ecology of gobies. Several species of Nordic gobies have proven to be very successful as models in studying questions in be havioural and evolutionary ecology. Notab...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

CREATE - Centre for Research-based Innovation in Aquaculture Technology

CREATE, Senter for forskningsbasert innovasjon i Aquaculture Technology, ble etablert i 2006. Senteret ble grunnlagt av industrien og Norsk Forskningsråd gjennom finansieringsplan fra Senter for Forskningsbasert innovasjon (SFI) og ble drevet i åtte år til og med 2014. CREATE utførte forskning ...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

FRANCISELLA SP. INFECTION IN ATLANTIC COD (Gadus morhua) - STUDY OF PATHOGEN AND HOST IMMUNE CELLS INTERACTIONS

A new bacterial disease affecting cultured cod has been causing serious and increasing number of disease outbreaks at Norwegian sea cage facilities since summer of 2004. This bacterium has recently been identified as Francisella sp., a fastidious facultat ive intracellular pathogen. The propose...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Personlig utenlandsstipend for Ane Sandtrø for besøk ved professor Vikram N. Vakharias laboratorium ved Universitetet i Maryland

Utenlandsoppholdet er en del at et stipendiatprosjekt kalt "The surface structure of IPN virus -role of central VP2 amino acids on epitope formation and development of persistent infection". Innen dette prosjektet satser vi på kompetanseutvikling innen st rukturstudier av ikosahedriske virus, hvi...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Predator-prey interactions and how they influence the behaviour and morphology of the queen conch Strombus gigas for sea ranching

The doctoral study conducted by Ellen Sofie Grefsrud was carried out to investigate the defence capabilities in P. maximus of cultured and wild origin to better understand predator-prey interactions between crabs and scallops in culture (funded by The Res earch Council of Norway -project 137326)....

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

Statistics for Innovation

Det lages enorme mengder data. Hver dag i samles det data innen teknologi, industri, offentlig forvaltning og forskning for å lage prediksjoner og ta beslutninger. Statistics for Innovation har utviklet nye statistiske metoder for å lære fra data, kvantifisere risiko og ta beslutninger under usik...

Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DOC turnover in polar microbial food webs.

Microbial communities, including phytoplankton, protozoa, bacteria, archaea, fungi and virus, are by far the most abundant and the most taxonomic and genetically diverse group of organisms in marine pelagic ecosystems. Biological activity, biomass, produc tion and remineralization in these system...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Mapping threats to arctic bird populations. The effect of infectious organisms and pollution on bird health. IPY NO 172 BirdHealth

The arctic environment and its wildlife are currently being threatened; from climate change, from pollution and from infectious organisms (IO). Health in wildlife is regulating population numbers through individual survival and reproduction. Little is kno wn about the combined impact of IO and po...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Bærekraftig utvikling av havområdene i nord. Muligheter og trusler.

Hovedaktiviteten bestått av to PhD prosjekt. Det første, "Third State Involvement in the Context of Establishing the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf" behandler prosessen med å fastsette yttergrensen for kontinentalsokkelen hvor denne strekker seg utover 200 nautiske mil fra kysten. Klarlegg...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian component of the Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Regions

The main goal of NESSAR is to quantify the impact of climate variability on the structure and function of marine ecosystems in the Nordic and Barents seas. This interdisciplinary program will mount intensive field studies of the physical and biological p rocesses at the Arctic Front in the Baren...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Surveys, stable isotopes, satellites and salmon: exploring elements of the marine ecology of Barents Sea Salmo salar

Salmon rivers in northernmost Norway, Finland and the Kola peninsula (Russia), support important fisheries, both in coastal areas and in the rivers themselves, and contribute more than 50% of the world freshwater catch of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ). The River Tana, along with other impo...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Assessment of human impact on the marine CARBon system in arctic regions (A-CARB)

Carbon dioxide is the most important manageable forcing agent of climate change. Large amounts are emitted through fossil fuel burning. Prediction of future climate change and planning of mitigation strategies requires that thorough knowledge of the facto rs that control the distribution of anth...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Efficient, low-cost monitoring of calanus

Being the dominant zooplankton group in the North Atlantic, herbivore copepods play an essential role in the food web energy transfer. As an important food item for commercially exploitable fish stocks, it is vital to fill the knowledge gaps on the mechan isms governing the variability in biomass...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN. Impact of environmental contaminants on smolt physiology, migration and marine survival in wild Atlantic salmon.

Pre-smolts will be exposed to environmentally relevant levels of contaminants known to occur in those Norwegian rivers supporting spawning populations of wild Atlantic salmon. The proposal will focus primarily on agricultural contaminants (pesticides), al though putative endocrine disrupters and ...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Building scenarios as a tool for dialogue, business development and management in protected coastal areas(Samfin. FHF-prosj.nr. 193846/I10)

There is a rich knowledge both nationally and internationally on e.g. restructuring of primary industries, business development, conservation, and conflicts in coastal zone management. However, still development and conservation objectives are not met in many areas due to profound conflicts and...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Diet and Reproductive Output in Arctic Molluscs: the Importance of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton (DREAM)

Algae that are associated with the arctic sea ice (ice algae) can constitute a significant fraction of total primary production, and play a fundamental role in polar ecosystems. The recently documented reduction of ice coverage may result in a significant shift in the relative contributions of i...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Northeast Greenland "Mare Incognitum"

The proposed two-year research project on the North-East Greenland 'Mare Incognitum' (NØ-GRØN) is a targeted observational study of the apparently extraordinary changes observed off north-eastern and eastern Greenland in recentmost summers. The research will contribute to our understanding of th...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Cascading effects of climate change and UV envirotoxins on the nutritional quality of the food base in marine ecosystems

With the current focus on ecosystem-based approaches to the management of marine resources establishing the effects of various environmental variables on the flow of energy through marine ecosystems is essential, and strongly prioritized. The research pro posed here uses two variables (temperatur...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The Hardangerfjord Salmon Lice Project

This three-year research effort will focus on the interactions of salmon lice between farmed and wild salmonids in the Hardangerfjord and will be a continuum of the project which was initiated in 2004 (http://www.nina.no; attachment:NFRProgressReportHarda nger2005). The applied project consists o...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Bridge Building NERSC - SIO -WHOI

Acoustic tomography is a cost effective method for obtaining time series of unique, synoptic and horizontally averaged oceanographic depth profiles at a high temporal resolution, which can be tailored and implemented in any ocean area including deep and i ce covered oceans. Today, acoustic tomogr...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Regulatory pathways of skeletal development in teleost fish: The impact of genetic, dietary, and environmental factors.

This proposal addresses the necessity to establish collaborative projects between Norwegian and North-American research institutions working in the field of fish skeletal development and malformation. A workshop, organised in Canada (Halifax) by scientist s from AKVAFORSK, NRC and Univ. of Dalhou...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Ocean Prediction Networking

Our proposal seeks funds (1) to network Norwegian resources, (2) to implement a formal collaboration on the national level, and (3) to foster international collaboration within the field of ocean prediction. Reliable ocean state description and forecasts of, e.g., extreme currents and waves, ha...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Agriculture and Fisheries Policies between International Regimes on Trade and the Environment

This project examines how international obligations emanating from environmental and trade regimes, and the interaction between them, affect selected aspects of Norwegian domestic and foreign policy making on agriculture and fisheries and Norwegian positi ons in WTO negotiations in those two sect...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Technology and methods using high-density microarrays for detection of unknown genetic modifications in plants, fungi and bacteria

To ensure the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) they are subjected to risk assessment prior to release into the environment and use in e.g. food production. Such known GMOs are considered to be as safe as conventional varieties. GMOs for whi ch publicly available descriptions are un...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

POCAHONTAS - Polar Climate and Heat Transport

The main objective of this project is to determine the mean and variation of the combined oceanic and atmospheric heat transports toward Svalbard and the European Arctic. The Norwegian and Arctic climate is much warmer than the local radiation budget woul d suggest, and this is due to oceanic and...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Linking physics and biology - Structuring of cod-populations in the North Sea/Skagerrak water-system

We propose to study the physical and biological mechanisms that generate and maintain a highly genetically structured population of cod in the Skagerrak water system. We hypothesize that a combination of oceanographic features (i.e., within fjords water c irculation), spawning behavior (i.e. stro...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Networks or markets? The recruitment challenges in future fisheries and marine industries, dr.gr.stip.

The radical changes that happen in coastal communities and industries;the processes of structuration, mechanisation, and increased governance, which we call cyborgisation processes, seem to have had consequences for the employment systems in marine commun ities. However, very little is known abou...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Dynamic and integrated production biology of farmed salmon in sea

The salmon farming industry demands optimal production through-out the entire life-cycle. This demand is currently not realized due to seasonal environmental changes that dramatically influences on feed intake, lipid accumulation, and growth rate during t he sea stage. To improve the predictabili...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

POLEWARD: A drifter experiment to quantify the poleward transport, transformation and spreading of oceanic properties

We propose to observe, describe and quantify the oceanic transport poleward and the transformation, spreading and mixing rates of water parcels in the Nordic and Barents Seas by monitoring the motion of the water parcels. In the process we will be quantif ying the mechanisms transforming the warm...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effect of Climate Change on Arctic High-Impact Weather Events (ArcChange)

We propose a coordinated Norwegian research project to study how meso-scale high impact weather in the arctic region of the North Atlantic will be affected by future climate change. The project aims at improving our understanding of the regional climate s ystem in the Arctic. The large scale obse...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo