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FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Assessement of benthic foraminifera as environmental proxy in the Arctic region

What are the long term oceanographic changes of Arctic fjord and shelf environments? In order to answer this important question this project aims to significantly advance benthic foraminifera as proxy indicators of modern and past environments in the fjor ds and shelves of Svalbard, the Barents S...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Resolving Conflicting Interests in Oceans Management: The Law and Politics of Integrated Oceans management in the Barents Sea.

This project addresses a critical issue in Norway?s marine policy: the implementation of the comprehensive management plan for the Barents Sea. Amidst considerable controversy, the plan was adopted in March March 2006. The project aims at understanding th e preconditions for effective implementat...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Importance of climate and chemical composition of precipitation on distribution and behaviour of radiocaesium in terrestrial ecosy

Measurements of 137Cs in natural soils in Norway show that the residence time of the radionuclide in the organic-rich surface layer varies much between different parts of the country. Faster removal of Cs from the surface soil in coastal areas suggests th at Cs exchange with marine cations such a...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Biopolymer Engineering

The project is based on a multidisciplinary research platform with extensive industry co-operation to perform research on marine biopolymers and their microbially produced analogues, providing novel biomaterials, initially designed for drug delivery syste ms, tissue engineering, nutraceuticals an...

Awarded: NOK 24.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

DEECON - Unravelling population connectivity for sustainable fisheries in the Deep Sea (EuroDEEP)

Over-exploitation of traditional coastal stocks has resulted in the shift of commercial harvesting towards less-known, deep-sea living resources in many parts of the world. Most of these "new" fisheries are now proving to be unsustainable. A key to our ab ility to manage these fisheries and prote...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Arctic and sub-Arctic climate system and ecological response to the early 20th century warming - ARCWARM

This proposal will examine the climate changes, and the causes and ecological impacts of these changes in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions in the 20th century with focus on the early warming and cooling event (1920-1960). Time series of various climate p arameters and biological data including p...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Harvesting at lower trophic levels - stock assessment and ecological consequences

The demand for feed to the aquaculture industry has shown a strong increase over the last years in parallel with the increase in total production within the industry. Estimated growth in the fish farming industry is supposed to cause a permanent shortage of marine oils within a few years, and of ...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

New materials and methods for placement of a thin layer cap on contaminated seabed

The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment identified remediation of contaminated sediments as important. The total release of contaminants to the fjord environment from larger areas with moderate contaminant levels can be greater than that from smaller ar eas with higher contaminant concentration...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Benthic biodiversity ? function and toxicology of selected key Arctic organisms

The proposed project is a cooperation network between the Norwegian institutes Akvaplan-niva and University Centre on Svalbard and the Russian institutes Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) and Murmansk Marine B iological Institute (MMBI). The programm...

Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The possible role of zooplankton in modulating ecosystem effects of acute oil spills in the Norwegian and Barents Seas.

The proposed project will study long-term effects of acute oil spills in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, focusing on the role of zooplankton. Zooplankton, constituting the food for e.g. herring, capelin and young cod, is central in the ecosystem; yet impo rtant questions remain unsolved. The over...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessment of mixture toxicity of compounds in discharges to the North Sea and coastal areas of Norway

The North sea and coastal areas of Norway receive input of pollutants from various sources including disharges from land, maritime and offshore oil production activitites, leakage from contaminated sediments and long-range atmospheric transport. These com pounds exist as complex mixtures in the r...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Kompetansebehov i marin sektor

Prosjektbeskrivelse Kompetansebehov i marin sektor Bakgrunn Høgskolen i Bodø (HBO) utdanner ledere og mellomledere til fiskeri og havbruksnæringa. Som alle utdanningsinstitusjoner som driver med slik utdanning opplever HBO at rekrutteringen til disse st udieplassene er preget av liten appell ho...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

TORJUS AND MIRO EXPLORE THE ARCTIC: A BOOK ABOUT ARCTIC SCIENCE FOR AND BY KIDS

East Greenland boasts some of the most spectacular geological sites of the world. The scale of the landscape, the range of colors and structures of the rocks is striking. Sea and land mammals, birds and large fish are numerous and easy to approach. Peop le have only lightly touched the land, an...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Continuous seismic reflection profiling buoys - a future direction for marine geophysical exploration of the Arctic Ocean

Experience from the last decade of icebreaker expeditions into the central Arctic Ocean demonstrate that about a quarter of the deep polar basin will remain inaccessible to modern multi-channel seismic exploration by towed arrays even when the survey vess el is assisted by a nuclear icebreaker. W...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Accelerated production of Atlantic halibut

This project aims at establishing optimal rearing conditions for maximal growth in the land-based phase of Atlantic halibut production. Environmental parameters (temperature, photoperiod and their interaction) will be manipulated to enhance faster growth in juveniles. Water quality experiments wi...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

High school students - building scientific and polar curiosity through participation in Fram-V: a scientific field camp on drifting sea ice

To inspire, educate and give hands-on polar research experience to high school students, we propose to establish a five week field camp on drifting sea ice about 300 km north of Svalbard. The four week science and education program - early April to early May 2007 will involve up to 50 students (4...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The impact of produced water on fish reproduction: a multigeneration approach

Major oil and gas activities are on-going along much of the Norwegian continental shelf, and it is anticipated that exploration and production will expand in the near future to include new oil fields in the high Arctic. Of major concern is the environment al impact of waste discharges from oil pr...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar bear circumpolar health assessment in relation to toxicants and climate changing.

Anthropogenic pollution and climate change are the two most significant threats for arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Because of food chain biomagnification of lipophilic persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the polar bear is one of the spec ies which have the highest levels of thes...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

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

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Persistent organic pollutants and natural stress in avian top predators of northern ecosystems; potential vulnerability to environ

Northern ecosystems face two major long-term challenges caused by human activity; climate change and persistent organic pollutants. Climate change will increase pressure on northern populations by altering a wide range of stressors (cause food deprivation , introduce new pathogens, etc.). To asse...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

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

The use of rheotactic and optometry responses in order to slaughter salmon at a rested state

New legislations regarding slaughter practices of farmed fish in Norway are expected to be enforced by 2007. The directive is expected to ban the current use of carbon dioxide to anaesthetise the fish before bleeding, and only stunning methods which rende r the fish unconscious immediately (e.g. ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

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: Spatial and temporal variation in production of juvenile Atlantic salmon: the importance of small streams as rearing habitats

Being able to identify the primary nursery habitats for juveniles in salmon populations is of prime importance for managers, especially as river systems are coming under pressure from anthropogenic disturbances. The smaller streams in river systems are es pecially vulnerable. Earlier studies from...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effects on Population Dynamical Key-Processes of a Changing Climate in Arctic Ecosystems

The present project aims at understanding and predicting how variations and changes in climate can affect key-processes that operate both on population dynamical and ecosystem level. More specifically, we will use long-term monitoring data on population d ynamics and population specific demograph...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Measurements of Black Carbon aerosols in Arctic snow - interpretation of effect on snow reflectance

Snow covered surfaces have relatively high albedo and most of the incoming solar radiation is reflected. Consequently, the temporal evolution of surface albedo in the Arctic is of high relevance for the surface energy balance, melting processes and climat e. BC particles emitted by fossil fuel an...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Planetary Boundary Layer Feedbacks Affecting the Polar Amplification of Arctic Climate Change in Seasonal Ice Zone

Studies based on observations, climate modelling and paleo-data have revealed a strong polar amplification (PA) of climate sensitivity in the Arctic. By contrast to the mean global temperature, which has increased by less than 1 degree during the past 100 years, the mean temperature in Longyearb...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate effects on planktonic food quality and trophic transfer in Arctic marginal ice zones (MIZ)

This project will investigate how increased light intensities, due to reduced ice concentrations and ice extent, affect timing, quantity and quality of primary and secondary production in the Arctic marginal ice zone (MIZ). The MIZ is the key productive a rea of Arctic shelf seas. The ongoing war...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Svalbard

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Product quality of farmed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua): Effects of handling stress and storage conditions

The project addresses important steps in the value chain from cage and into the market. Effects of handling stress, storage conditions, possible interactions between them, and how this may influence the quality of the muscle of farmed cod (Gadus morhua) a s food and raw material for further proce...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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