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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

APECS: Shaping the Future of Polar Research International Directorate Office

Norway, as many western countries, is facing a scientific generation gap in conjunction with the difficulty in recruiting natural and physical scientists. The work of APECS is helping young scientists maneuver the challenging academic world, encouraging t hem to stay in science, and recruit the n...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

ESFRI Preparatory Phase project: European Icebreaker Consortium (ERICON) - Aurora Borealis

Subsequent to being approved on the ESFRI Roadmap, ERICON has received Preparatory Phase (PP) funding from EU to establish a European consortium for construction and operation of the icebreaking research platform Aurora Borealis. University of Bergen is a mong the ERICON partner institutions Eur...

Awarded: NOK 85,112

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

Changes in northern ecosystem services: what is the importance for resource-dependent communities?

A workshop will be arranged in connection with a large ongoing research project TUNDRA financed by NFR, where Russian partners are active participants. The main objective for TUNDRA is to elucidate how environmental governance and socio-economic condition s influence ecosystems and the services t...

Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

ARCtic Ocean Mixing: Influence of changing ice cover on internal waves and mixing

The proposal is motivated by recent findings showing i) the sensitivity of Arctic Ocean circulation to background deep-ocean diapycnal mixing and ii) enhancement of near-inertial internal wave activity and induced mixing in the absence of sea ice. Mixi ng in the stratified ocean is related to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

The influence of climate change on distribution and deposition processes for persistent organic pollutants on Svalbard

Based upon an initiative of an already ongoing scientific exchange and research program (NorthPOP: 185104/S50) a research project is planned to foster and harmonize the scientific co-operation between the Russian and Norwegian research activities in envir onmental chemistry on Svalbard. As priori...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Investigations of population structure in shrimp (Pandalus borealis) in the North Atlantic

The northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) is the most valuable shellfish resource in the North Atlantic and supports one of the world's largest fisheries. The need to establish stock boundaries and study the spatial organization of shrimp has been emphasi zed by the international shrimp milieu. P...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Russian-Norwegian field work cooperation on marine properties in Svalbard waters

Russian-Norwegian collaboration already established in a Fram Arctic Laboratory funded PhD project, will be expanded by developing joint field work in Svalbard fjords and adjacent shelf waters. The field work will focus on seawater properties (temperature , salinity, particulate matter, optics, t...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Geoscientific permafrost collaboration between Svalbard/Norway and Alaska

One primary research aim is to compare the modern day permafrost conditions in terms of the ground thermal state, the stock of carbon and nitrogen, the potential for greenhouse gas production, the rates of permafrost land formation in the maritime arctic in Svalbard and Norway with the continent...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bioeconomic Multispecies Analysis of Marine Ecosystems

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Changes in the Calanus complex on both sides of the Atlantic and its possible impact on fish populations

A 10 degree latitude northward shift in the characteristic copepod populations of temperate oceans has been observed over the past several decades, seemingly in association with global warming effects on ocean water temperature. This has moved the Subarct ic and Cold Temperate copepod species int...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Metablomics to study toxicity of acute discharges to cod larvae

The original project summary is found in the application for the NFR project 184716/S40. The intended additional methodology will strengthen the original hypothesis testing by adding increased knowledge on the molecular responses of the exposures in the study. New hypotheses will be tested with...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

How to control Anthriscus sylvestris: Biological measures and societal efforts

During the last 50-60 years several reports states that A. sylvestris is aggressively establishing in grassland in Norway. Now it is established in grassland in most of the country and some rural districts is said to be completely covered in white during the flowering period. In the present pro...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Intracellular lifestyle of Francisella piscicida in Atlantic cod

Det vertebrate immunforsvaret består av en medfødt og en ervervet del som ved gjenkjenning av en invaderende mikrobe aktiverer eller inaktiverer ekspresjonen av et stort antall gener. Gjenkjenningsevne og type respons varierer mellom ulike arter i møte med ulike bakterier og virus. Bakterien Fran...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIPHINIFES-SIP ved HI

Effects of climate change on the Calanus complex

Å forstå og å være i stand til å kvantifisere dynamikken i de fire Calanus-populasjonene er avgjørende for å kunne produsere realistiske prognoser for klimaeffektene i det Nordatlantiske økosystemet. Vi har analysert utvalgte tidsserier for C. finmarchicus, C. helgolandicus, C. hyperboreus og C....

Awarded: NOK 22.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

"Sats på torsk" 10.-11. februar 2010 i Bodø

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Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Microhabitats of benthic Foraminifera in glacimarine sediments

Foraminifera are diverse and abundant marine unicellular organisms that sensitive to environmental change. Their hard shells accumulate as a fossil record and characterize past climates. Many of these minute sluggishly-moving organisms dwell within the se diment where they tend to occupy certain ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Coordination and integration of Norwegian and Russian marine research activities on Svalbard (CoNoR)

In close cooperation with Svalbard Science Forum (SSF), we propose to organize two series of symposia, one in Svalbard and one in St Petersburg to promote, coordinate and integrate planned and ongoing Norwegian and Russian research activities on Svalbard in selected research fields. We focus on ...

Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

INTERNAL HYDRAULIC PROCESSES IN AN ARCTIC FJORD

There is growing evidence that a significant fraction of the diapycnal mixing in the oceans is caused by internal hydraulic processes (e.g., internal wave breaking, internal hydraulic jumps etc.). Fjords are convenient as ocean process laboratories since they exhibit many of the physical phenome...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Remote Imaging and Spectral Characterization of the Cryosphere

Awarded: NOK 0.65 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Workshop on survey methods for estimating catch, effort and economic value of widely dispersed marine recreational fisheries

The goal of this multidisciplinary workshop is to develop collaborative research on cost-effective methods that can be used to monitor catch and effort and to quantify the economic effects in diffuse marine recreational fisheries in Europe. The importanc e of quantifying catches in marine recrea...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Promoting prosperous coastal communities - Integrated community and business development in a regional perspective

The overriding question asked by this project is: Why have some coastal communities succeeded in developing prosperous communities while others struggle? We will study factors of importance to success: demography and economic development; local and region al collaboration; the importance of a coh...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The New Challenges in High Seas Fisheries Management: Dealing with Competition Across Institutional Venurs

One of todays most pressing marine governance issues is the how to effectively govern areas beyond national jurisdiction, on the high seas. This project will address two clusters of current challenges in high seas fisheries management: i) the adoption of trade measures to combat IUU-fishing (ill...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Toxic Algae: Taxonomy, Quantification and Early Warning

TOXICALGAE tok sikte på å øke forståelsen av giftig marine mikroalger og vi fokuserte primært på arter som er giftig for fisk. Mange av dem er små, skjøre og vanskelig å oppdage ved hjelp av standard overvåkingsmetoder som lysmikroskopi, derfor er nye verktøy som enkelt og nøyaktig kan oppdage og...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Understanding fitness-related effects of dispersed oil on Calanus finmarchicus

The planktonic copepod Calanus finmarchicus is the dominating species in the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea in terms of biomass, and because of its central position in the food web and large lipid content it is by far the most important source of energy fo r a number of fish species. This crucial ...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Use of synbiotics in aquaculture

Evaluate the effect of synbiotic [lactic acid bacteria and short chain fructooligosaccharides] on the gut microbiota, non-specific immunity and disease resistance in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) and hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus ? x O. aureus ?) . The studies will generate new informati...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Why Is the Sea Ice Melting so Fast? Improving Understanding of Melt Processes on First-Year Arctic Sea Ice

The area of summer sea ice in the Arctic has been decreasing since satellite observations started in 1979, and the area of ice lost in summer during the last five years is far beyond what was predicted by climate models. Furthermore there has been a shift from thicker multi-year ice to thinner f...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Allee effects in Atlantic salmon caused by parasite infestation and interspecific hybridisation with brown trout

We propose to investigate the possibility that strong reduction of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) population sizes caused by infestation of the parasite Gyrodactylus salaris, coupled with increasing rates of interspecific hybridisation between Atlantic sal mon and brown trout (S. trutta), might le...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Geosystem 3-D Seismic Imaging (G3)

The P-Cable 3D Seismic system is a newly developed system for acquisition of high-resolution 3D data. The P-Cable system has been developed from idea to proven technology during the past eight years. It offers forefront marine technology developed by a co nsortium of Norwegian Universities and co...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Storfjorden Polynya Air Sea Ice Exchange Experiment

The Storfjorden Polynya Air Sea Ice Exchange Experiment (SPASIE²) will expand research capabilities in Norway in air-sea-ice interaction through a dedicated field campaign. Through this coordinated study researchers and graduate students will be exchange d between Norway and the US. The project ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Influx of Atlantic Water from the Nordic Seas to the Arctic Ocean during the late glacial and the Holocene.

Under siste istid var Barentshavet dekket av Svalbard-Barentshavet isskapene. Etter isen trakk seg tilbake ble Barentshavet etter hvert en av hoved transportveiene for Atlantisk vann på vei mot Polhavet. I dag er syd-vestlige Barentshavet dominert av varm t og salt Atlantisk vann mens nordlige Ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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