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POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Arctic Modernities

Since the late nineteenth century the circumpolar Arctic has undergone a process by which it has become incorporated in global modernity via natural science, technology, tourism and international politics. However, little research has so far been done on the impact of modernisation/modernity on ...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Ocean Acidification in the Arctic: effects of ice

CARSIC will develop basic knowledge through studies related to process understanding of Arctic Ocean biogeochemistry and ocean acidification: aiming to estimate future carbonate system parameters state in the Arctic Ocean. We plan to work on a database, perform field studies in Svalbard, and ma...

Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Processes and Players in Arctic Marine Pelagic Food Webs - Biogeochemistry, Environment and Climate Change

Mikroorganismene i havet, dvs fytoplankton alger, protozoer, bakterier, arker og virus, er små, men de er veldig mange og vokser fort og har derfor stor betydning i økosystemet. De produserer all maten til større dyr og fisk, bryter ned forurensning, og regulerer havets opptak av klimagassen CO2....

Awarded: NOK 22.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Arctic Ocean under Melting ice

Framstredet er den eneste dype passasjen for utveksling av vannmasser mellom Atlanterhavet og Polahavet. På den østlige siden av stredet transporterer Vestspitsbergenstrømmen varmt Atlanterhavsvann inn Arktis, på vestsiden av Framstredet fraktes sjøis og isvann fra Arktis sørover Alfred Wegner In...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Big Black Box:

Our knowledge on polar night ecology is poor. Most Arctic studies are conducted during the light season from spring to autumn when field work is convenient. The dark Arctic winter, however, may last up to eight or nine months depending on the snow depth a nd sea ice cover. The ecological and phys...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

FREMONEC: Effect of climate change and related stressors on fresh and brackish water ecosystems in Svalbard

The Russian-Norwegian collaboration project FREMONEC aims to strengthen the cooperation between Norway and Russia on polar research in Svalbard. It will serve as a positive example for a network building in thematic areas relevant for both countries: impa cts of climate change, biodiversity and e...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Mare incognitum - ecological processes during the polar night

The primary objective of this project is to achieve a basic understanding of Arctic biodiversity and food web structure during the Arctic polar night, and how reproduction, growth, trophic interactions, and life-history traits during this nearly unstudied time contribute to functioning of Arctic...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Cultural Heritage in Polar Regions. Natural and human impact on cultural heritage sites and environments

Cultural heritage management in the Polar Regions is an increasingly challenging endeavour as management authorities face impacts from climate and environmental change as well as increasing human activity such as oil and gas extraction and tourism. The purpose of the project is to address the ...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Spatial and temporal variability in sea ice and primary production dynamics of the Arctic Ocean

Biological production starts with photosynthesis, energy from the sun captured by plants and converted to carbohydrates. In the oceans, microscopic algae make up most of this production, they are the primary producers. With the extreme seasonality of the physical environment of the Arctic, parti...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Bjerknes Compensation Mechanism: Historical perspective, geographical pattern, and Arctic multi-decadal predictability

Long runs (hundreds of years) of the global climate models and high-resolution climate proxy data sets provide an opportunity to study multi-decadal natural variability of the coupled atmospheric and oceanic circulation. The Nordic seas and the Arctic are regions were such a natural variability ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Reconstruction of Environmental Histories Using Long-Lived Bivalve Shells in the Norwegian Arctic (RELIC)

Analysis of accreted calcium carbonate parts of marine animals has proven useful as a tool in reconstruction of marine environmental histories. In particular, the shells of long-lived bivalve molluscs have provided insight into recent and prehistoric clim atic conditions of tropical and temperate...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Plant biomass studies in the Arctic (ArcticBiomass)

The main purpose is to establish a joint American-Norwegian research team dealing with research on the combination of field and satellite remote sensing based above-ground plant biomass, vegetation productivity and growing season mapping in northern Alask a and in Svalbard, as well as on a circum...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

ACOBAR-II: Analysis and publication of results from the Fram Strait tomographic experiment.

As part of the EU projects DAMOLCES (2005-2010) and ACOBAR (2008-2013) two major acoustic experiments were carried out in the Fram Strait. The aim was to provide accurate measurements of acoustic travel times over 100-300 kilometer sections for inversion and assimilation into ice-ocean models. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

CharrAdapt: Adaptation of Arctic charr to changing polar climate

The CharrAdapt project proposes to investigate the adaptation of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), to the extreme polar environment through the study of population biology, physiology and genetics. As the only Arctic polar freshwater fish species, Arctic charr serve as an important model in whi...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Norwegian Polar Politics 1870-2014

The project will be administrated from the Department of History and Religious Studies at the University of Tromsø, and will draw on competence and the international network which has been accumulated through more than 15 years of research on polar histor y. It will address the major historical ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

The Oceanography of Grønnfjorden and Billefjorden (GrønnBille)

Under prosjektmøtet i Tromsø 23.04.2014, med UiT og Akvaplan-Niva som vertskap, ble relevante arbeid fra Isfjorden, Billefjorden og Grønnfjorden presentert med et fokus på framtidige og historiske hydrografiske data (temperatur-, salt- and tetthets profiler). Russiske og norske partnere gave en o...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Isfjorden - past and present climate

The project will enhance the collaboration between Russia (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute [AARI], St.Petersburg State University [SPbSU]) and Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute [met.no]) within several of the prioritized topics in the cal l: Climate change, effects of climate cha...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Timing of ecological processes in Spitsbergen fjords - SpitsEco

Through the ARCTOS network (http://www.arctosresearch.net/), Norwegian and Russian scientist has developed a successful long lasting collaboration. Russian scientists and PhD students has participated in a number of projects such as PanAME (IPY project 26 ), Cleopatra (NFR funded 2007-2011), and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Microorganisms in the arctic: major drivers of biogeochemical cycles and climate change

Arctic soils are currently the focus of intense research due to their recognized vulnerability to climate change, in particular with respect to the unknown consequences of warming on the enormous carbon reserves that are currently sequestered in permafros t. In order to understand how carbon proc...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Fate of COPePod secondarY production in a chancing Arctic

A warmer climate with less extensive ice cover will lead to higher total primary production in the Arctic, which has the potential to increase the overall secondary production. Altered climate conditions will also affect timing of primary production, with consequences for the grazers of marine e...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Krill-dominated Ecosystem Dynamics in the Scotia Sea

Antarktis har krill dominerte økosystem, definert slik på grunn av nøkkelrolla til krill. Toppredatorane er i stor grad avhengig av krill enten direkte eller indirekte ved at dei et krill eller artar som lever av krill. Spesielt avhengig av krill, og derfor sårbare, er landbaserte predatorar som ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Seasonal-to-decadal climate Prediction for the improvement of European Climate Services

Det er et økende behov i samfunnet for robust klimainformasjon om fremtidige perioder fra noen måneder opp til flere år for økonomisk, industrielt og politisk planlegging. Prediction på denne på kort sikt klima tidsskala har fått mindre oppmerksomhet enn værvarsling og langsiktig klimaendringer p...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Akershus

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Climate effects on planktonic food quality and trophic transfer in Arctic Marginal Ice Zones II

Et varmere klima med mindre sjøis vil kunne føre til høyere primærproduksjon, som igjen kan øke sekundærproduksjonen i Arktis. Men ikke nødvendigvis! Endrede klimaforhold vil påvirke tidspunktet for våroppblomstringen, samt mengden og kvaliteten av både isalger og planteplankton noe som kan ha ne...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Strengthening the adaptive capacity of institutions in fisheries

Marine økosystemer rundt om i verden er truet av et høyt fiskepress og klimatiske endringer. Disse kreftene utgjør betydelige utfordringer i arbeidet med å sikre en langsiktig produktivitet til ressursbestander uten å sette levebrødet til kystsamfunn og matsikkerhet på spill. Det er dermed et ste...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Synergistic effects of sea ice-free periods and contaminant exposure on energy metabolism in polar bears

Isbjørnen er blant de mest sårbare artene ovenfor klimaendringer, dette mye på grunn av sin avhengighet av havisen for å jakte på ringsel. Lengre isfrie sommersesonger og økt sesongvariasjon i isutbredelsen vil få mest konsekvenser for gravide og ammende binner, og kan derfor til slutt påvirke in...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

PREDICTING EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SVALBARD REINDEER POPULATION DYNAMICS: A MECHANISTIC APPROACH

Svalbard er en «hotspot» for klimaendringer, med den sterkeste oppvarmingen i hele Europa. Disse endringene forventes å ha stor innvirkning på dyre- og plantelivet. Hovedmålet med REINCLIM-prosjektet var å forstå hvordan vær og klima fører til miljøendringer som i sin tur påvirker svalbardreinen ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Critical Aspects of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in the Northern Regions

The CAVIAR II project build on one International Polar Year 2007-8 legacy, which illustrates the complex linkages between changing climatic, socio-economic and environmental conditions and the effects on local communities in the Arctic. Adaptive capacity is at the core and has been studied in nor...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Extreme winter warming in the High North and its biological effects in the past, present and future

Endringer av vinterklimaet i nordområdene vil til en stor grad vise seg gjennom økt frekvens av relativt kortvarige mildværsperioder som fører til delvis eller full snøsmelting over store områder, og kun i mindre grad som en gradvis økning i daglige gjennomsnittstemperaturer. Endringene som mildv...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

High Impact Weather in the Arctic: Fundamental understanding and future projections

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Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Genome-based analysis of biogenic/phytoplankton influence on the global sulphur cycle.

Svovel-aerosoler generert fra mikroorganismer kan fungere som kondensasjonskjerner for vanndamp og bidra til skydannelse over hav. Dette prosjektet har hatt som mål å undersøke hvordan to økologisk viktige svovelforbindelser, dimetylsufoniopropionat (DMSP) og dimetylsulfid (DMS), blir produsert a...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage