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FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Auroral emission intensities — from validation to prediction

Prosjektet har som mål å produsere og publisere et langvarig datasett med kalibrerte intensiteter av visuelle nordlysemissjoner på to ulike breddegrader, basert på optiske bakkemålinger. For å sikre høykvalitets intensitetsverdier for analysen, vil kun intensiteter knyttet til faktiske nordlyset ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Avalanche Lidar Early Response and Tracking System

This project aims to test the reliability and efficiency of data transmission from a mobile sensoric unit designed for monitoring environmental conditions in rough terrain. The sensoric unit, equipped with the advanced LiDAR sensor Livox AVIA and other sensors, will be deployed in the extreme con...

Awarded: NOK 63,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard Radar Snow Penetration Experiment

The project shall carry out a three part fieldwork campaign on Svalbard targeting quantification of K-band microwave penetration of radar signal into snow. The radar penetration is one of the most important knowledge gaps for the snow on sea ice thickness measurement of the future CRISTAL satelli...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Tracking Toxicants: Unveiling the Biogeochemical Fate of Toxic Metals and Organic Matter in Arctic Snow

This project deals with studying metals of environmental concern (like lead, cadmium, mercury, zinc, copper etc.) and natural organic matter (OM) present in snow samples from coastal areas in the Arctic region. The main objective is to increase the understanding of the properties and the role of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Thawing Arctic permafrost, emerging risks: managing critical infrastructure, cultural heritage, and mountain slopes under climate change

Temperaturene i Arktis har steget nesten fire ganger raskere enn det globale gjennomsnittet de siste tiårene, noe som har ført til en rekke konsekvenser. Longyearbyen (LYR), den største bosetningen på Svalbard, er et ideelt sted å studere for å forstå disse effektene, da byen ligger i et hotspot ...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Integrating wildlife and snow-ice expertise across the high Arctic

På den arktiske tundraen spiller snø- og isforhold en avgjørende rolle for om dyrebestandene trives eller går tilbake. Ettersom klimaendringene skjer raskest i Arktis, er det viktig å forstå sammenhengen mellom snøforhold og dyrebestander. Faktorer som snødybde, hardhet, tidspunktet for første sn...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Merging ecological and evolutionary methods to understand adaptation to climate change in Svalbard’s tundra ecosystem

Klimaendringene medfører endringer i det miljøet som planter og dyr har tilpasset seg. Dette skjer særlig raskt i Arktis, og derfor er det viktig å studere og forstå hvordan arter påvirkes, både umiddelbart (for eksempel gjennom endringer i adferd, overlevelse og reproduksjon) og i det lange løp ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Svalbard

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 63,890

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

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

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 75,339

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The Heer Land overabundance of Thermal-switch surges

Glaciers around the world are losing mass at an accelerated rate (Hugonnet et al., 2021), and Svalbard experiences this even faster than the global average, largely due to its strong interaction with warm Atlantic ocean currents (Piechura and Walczowski, 2009). The latest IPCC reports present mod...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Snowdrift at the solar park of Isfjord Radio, RiS ID 12308

The adaptation of renewable energy in the Arctic requires knowledge of the Arctic climate's influence on energy installations such as solar panels. Therefore, snowdrift is investigated at the recently installed solar photovoltaic array at Isfjord Radio. For this, observations from a weather stati...

Awarded: NOK 54,784

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Spatio-temporal habitat use of Svalbard reindeer (RiS ID 12152)

Forståelsen av Svalbardreinens Habitat: Klimaendringer og Vår Forskning Introduksjon Arktis er et av de mest skjøre miljøene på jorden, og det opplever raske endringer på grunn av klimaendringer. Svalbard, en øygruppe i Arktis, varmes opp raskere enn nesten noe annet sted. Dette gjør det til et v...

Awarded: NOK 76,079

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Active Scattering in Sea Ice for Measuring Internal Properties

Sea ice is filled with small brine pockets because the salt is rejected by the crystal lattice during the freezing process. These brine pockets have a significant influence on several aspects of sea ice, including its bearing capacity, the remote sensing of it, as well as the amount of solar ener...

Awarded: NOK 25,805

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Hornsund’s and Storfjorden DOM Data Acquisition Campaign and Virtual Field Guide Development for Educational Research. RiS ID - 12339

This project aim to perform a systematic digitalization of eastern Spitsbergen coast, due to its excellent cretaceous sediments' exposures, and western Barentsøya-Edgeøya for their important HALIP exposures. Collecting these types of data from Hornsund’s and Storfjorden’s surroundings can provid...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The transition from ductile to brittle deformation in pre-Devonian basement of the Billefjorden Fault Zone, Svalbard (RiS: 12317)

The Billefjorden Fault Zone (BFZ) is a N-S striking regional-scale long-lived lineament cropping out in central Spitsbergen. This lineament exposes multi-deformational evolution that initiated with ductile deformation preserved in the metamorphic basement. Following several phases of brittle def...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

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 52,672

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Bryophyte diversity as a driver of ecosystem functions and processes in a changing tundra, attached to the ITEX experiment, RiS ID: 10030

Studying bryophyte diversity in the high Arctic, like Svalbard, is vital due to their resilience in extreme conditions. Mosses are pioneers in colonizing newly exposed areas, offering insight into ecosystem health. They act as carbon sinks and regulate the hydrological cycle, which is crucial for...

Awarded: NOK 70,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Shrub Growth and Permafrost Insulation in a Warmer, Rainier Arctic - RiS ID 11968, 12016 & 12331

Air temperatures are increasing, and more precipitation is falling as rain rather than snow on Svalbard. We still know little about the role of rainfall events in the thermal stability of permafrost and growth of Svalbard plant communities. Plant growth and permafrost thaw also affect each other,...

Awarded: NOK 62,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Response of benthic invertebrates to the Permo-Triassic climate crisis (RiS ID 12072)

The Permo-Triassic (P/T) climate crisis caused the most catastrophic extinction in Earth’s history, with a species loss of 81-95%. Intensive volcanic activity related to the emplacement of the Siberian traps caused several environmental changes, such as an increase in temperature, ocean acidifica...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Ice-wedges as late Pleistocene winter paleoclimatic archives on Prins Karl Forland (RIS ID: 12313)

Apart from Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice-core records, late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoclimatic reconstructions in the northern latitudes are mainly based on proxies that record summer air temperatures. This seasonal bias has resulted in model-data mismatches, highlighting the need to reco...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

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 50,085

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The geomorphic signature of ancient ice shelves in Isfjorden, Spitsbergen, RiS ID12367

This research project aims to explore the historical presence of ice shelves along Isfjorden, Svalbard, and their impact on regional and global climate systems. It plans to investigate unexplored topographies that indicate to reveal the interaction between an ice shelf with an ice-free coast duri...

Awarded: NOK 29,805

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 63,840

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

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

Shallow marine prokaryote ecosystems in the Boreal Ocean during the Permo-Triassic climate crisis and their recovery (RiS ID: 12307)

Lipid biomarker samples will be collected to reconstruct the microbial community and environmental conditions during the Late Permian mass extinction and in its aftermath with a focus on the recovery of the microbial ecosystem. The samples will complement the existing biomarker record that is con...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

Aurora-like fragments: From fascinating discovery to understanding

En merkelig ny type nordlys har blitt oppdaget over Svalbard. De viser seg som små flekker (deler/biter/stykker?) av grønt lys og ble observert da de dannet kjeder nært nordlys-buer. Disse ble oppkalt "fragmenterte nordlys-lignende utslipp"- eller bare "fragmenter". Vi ønsker å finne ut hva som f...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Svalbard

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Climate-driven methane outgassing at terrestrial and marine-terminating glacier margins

Metanutslipp fra tilbaketrekkende arktiske isbreer har potensial til å øke betydelig i løpet av det 21. århundre. Disse utslippene vil gjøre det vanskelig å kontrollere klimagassnivåene i en kritisk periode for håndtering av klimaendringer. Prosjektet vårt vil gi viktig informasjon om hvor mye me...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

GOSOUTH - Polar research sabbatical from Longyearbyen, Svalbard to Bremen, Germany

I plan to spend one year (August 2023 to July 2024) on sabbatical at the Geodynamics of the Polar Regions (GEOPOL; https://www.geopol.uni-bremen.de/) at the University of Bremen, being invited by the group leader Prof. Dr. Cornelia Spiegel-Behnke. The overall aim of the research stay is to provid...

Awarded: NOK 0.44 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Svalbard

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