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MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

SEDNA: Assess Seasonality in Pelagic Diversity and Carbon Export within the Central Arctic Ocean

Since the last decades, warmer Atlantic waters are penetrating deeper into the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO), weakening the typical extreme cold conditions. This change is altering the diversity and role of marine life, as well as affecting how carbon is transported from the surface to the deep ocea...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Navigating the uncharted territory of the Anthropocene climate

Warming and other climate change indicators continue to adversely impact the global society. In order to avoid dangerous and potentially irreversible climate catastrophes, the Paris Agreement was signed, with the aim of limiting climate warming at 2 degree and pursuing efforts toward 1.5 degree. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Sea-ice lead dynamics in the new Arctic and their impact on primary production

Global warming is changing the Arctic, especially the sea ice, which affects the marine ecosystems that depend on it. Sea ice algae and phytoplankton (primary producers that capture CO2 and transform it to organic carbon) are important microorganisms in the Arctic food web, initiating a spring bl...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

BorealBlaze: Climate effects and feedbacks of changing high-latitude wildfire

Climate effects and feedbacks of changing high-latitude wildfire The primary aim of the project “BorealBlaze: Climate effects and feedbacks of changing high-latitude wildfire” is to advance the understanding of the climate effects and feedbacks from changing wildfire activity at high Northern la...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

GYRE-induced variability in North Atlantic circulation - Dynamics and impacts on overturning

The large-scale circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate by transporting warm, salty waters northward along the borders of the subtropical gyre and the subpolar gyre within the extended Gulf Stream system. The role of variable gyre circulation in modulating t...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Less is More? – Snow Cover Loss as a Driving Force of Increased Vegetation Damage in the Arctic-Boreal Region

Northern climate has been shifting to a new regime over the past decades. Not only are summers longer and warmer, but winter weather has become increasingly variable. This has led to an increase in mid-winter warm spells, rain-on-snow events and the loss of snow cover. All of these extreme winter...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Intercomparison of coupled forecast models in the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone

Purpose: The workshop aims to facilitate an in-depth analysis and comparison of coupled forecast models focusing on the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). Through collaborative efforts, participants will discuss the performance and uncertainties of various forecasting systems in predicting interacti...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

A Norwegian Argo Infrastructure - a contribution to the European and global Argo infrastructure (NorArgo3)

NorArgo3 is an observation system for the Arctic that consists of oceanographic battery powered floats, Argo floats. The Argo floats are mainly located in the deep water drifting with the currents there. The float has a buoyancy equal to the surrounding water masses and it adjusts its depth by ch...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Golfstrømmen, polarisen og klima - fake news, fakta og fremtiden The Gulfstream, polar ice and climate - facts, fake news and the future

Klima på jorda er avhengig av en rekke faktorer. Den viktigste rollen for klimaet i Europa og Norge spiller Golfstrømmen og dens interaksjon med polarisen. Mens Golfstrømmen transporterer store mengder varme og frigjør den langs sin rute, har polarisen, både på land og i havet, en avkjølende virk...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Norway and Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC), phase 3

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is a European research infrastructure forming an observation system that measure and assess atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations ensuring independent and reliable carbon measurements. Through observations, ICOS provides knowledge on how societies h...

Awarded: NOK 40.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2030

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System modelling phase 2

A climate model couples specialised computer models for various components of the climate system, such as atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and land surface with vegetation and ice sheets. When the climate model also includes advanced atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles (such as the carbon c...

Awarded: NOK 100.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2034

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

NORMAR-II, Upgrade of the ROV Ægir 6000 - a remotely operated underwater vehicle for deep-sea research

Exploring the Deep Sea: The Role of Ægir 6000 and NORMAR in Unveiling Ocean Mysteries The deep oceans cover over 60% of Earth’s surface and have an average depth of nearly 4,000 meters, making them some of the planet’s least explored regions. Ægir 6000, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for deep...

Awarded: NOK 60.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2034

Location: Vestland

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Ice, Wind and Structures

Offshore wind energy is a necessary part of the green transition and is expected to expand considerably, also into areas with sea ice such as the Baltic, the Bohai Sea and the Great Lakes in USA where the water depth and other geophysical conditions favor bottom-fixed structures. Bottom-fixed str...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

The Polar One Health Summit 2024

The "Polar One Health Summit" is an essential event aimed at addressing the unique health challenges emerging in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, where rapid environmental changes are affecting humans, animals, and ecosystems in unprecedented ways. This event is needed because polar regions are ...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Integrating wildlife and snow-ice expertise across the high Arctic

In the Arctic tundra, snow and ice conditions critically determine whether wildlife populations thrive or decline. Factors such as snow depth, hardness, the timing of snowfall and spring melt, and the occurrence of solid ground ice can significantly impact the survival and reproduction of various...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

An Arctic Coastal Biodiversity Observation Network (ARC-BON) development workshop

Due to intensified climate warming, the Arctic coasts are rapidly eroding, and the run-off from glaciers and rivers are increasing. Impacts of climate change on land and in the ocean combine in the coastal zone and result in a complex and rapidly changing environment. However, the impacts of this...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Autonomous long-range under-ice missions for light and water column characterisation

Arctic Under-Ice Exploration with Autonomous Gliders An international team aims to revolutionize studying remote Arctic under-ice environments using autonomous underwater vehicles called hybrid gliders. As sea ice diminishes due to climate change, the ecosystems below face new challenges and oppo...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Investigating Spatial and Temporal Variability in Dust Deposition onto Svalbard Glaciers

The objective of this project is to provide important information of mineral dust deposition onto Svalbard glaciers, how consistent dust deposition is across Svalbard, and the role of dust and other light absorbing particles on snow and glacier melt. During winter-spring 2025 we will collect shal...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

EAVP 24 – a polar perspective of palaeontology Application for event support

The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (NHMO) plans to host the annual scientific conference for European Association for Vertebrate Palaeontology 2024 in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in partnership with Evolutionsmuseet, University of Uppsala (EM-UU), The University Centre in Svalbard (UniS) a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Shallow waters around Svalbard as nursery areas for fish stocks and an index of environmental changes

The Arctic is experiencing rising water temperatures over time, which leads to a northward migration of Atlantic species to Arctic waters. Will the shallow waters at Svalbard become more important as nursery areas for the large commercial stocks in the future? This is what the project wants to fi...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

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

From winter time to summer time – what ends the "hunger gap" for Svalbard reindeer?

The term "hunger gap" (no: “vårknipa”) traditionally used in agricultural communities, refers to the period at the end of winter when winter provisions are depleting, yet the growing season has not yet started. In contemporary usage, the term also describes the food situation for wild animals, wh...

Awarded: NOK 58,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Akershus

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

SVALCLIME - Deep-time Arctic climate archives

Svalbard’s rocks record the Earth’s history over many millions of years and can inform us about how the climate changed in the “deep-time”. These include some of the world’s major mass extinctions, such as the one that occurred around 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, the la...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Unravelling diversity and abundance of freshwater fish in Svalbard through molecular-based monitoring

All living organisms are shedding DNA and RNA traces in their environment, for example through pieces of skin, hair, egg, blood or mucus. In aquatic habitats, it is possible to detect these traces by collecting water samples to identify all species living there. Also called environmental DNA (eDN...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Forecasting Wave impact as Arctic sea ice declines

Arctic sea ice has been declining dramatically in the last decades, and the Arctic Ocean is expected to be ice-free in summer by the end of the century. This decline has exposed large ocean areas to winds, resulting in large waves forming more frequently in the Arctic Ocean. These waves can propa...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Wastewater Management in the Arctic – search for synergies in pan-Arctic perspectives for sustainable development of Arctic settlements.

SINTEF, the Danish University of Technology and the University of Århus (DK), will host a workshop on "Wastewater Management in the Arctic – search for synergies in pan-Arctic perspectives for sustainable development of Arctic settlements (WM-Arctic)", in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, for 2 days during...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Characterising geogenic nitrate source areas in Adventdalen

There has been great emphasis on quantifying the release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost. However, research on links between melting glaciers and permafrost and nitrogen release has been limited, despite its potential as a direct or indirect greenhou...

Awarded: NOK 29,854

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

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

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Mercury dynamics in Arctic fjord marine food webs

Marine chemical pollution poses known threats to human health and to biodiversity, ecosystem and societal services. The Arctic region is a major sink of global mercury (Hg) pollution. Arctic sediments, sea and glacial ice constitute vast Hg reservoirs. Recent studies raise concerns about their ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Intertidal ecosystem response to an increasingly ice-free Arctic

Warming temperatures and a reduction of sea-ice scour opens the Arctic intertidal as habitat for colonization by both seaweeds and marine invertebrates. Indeed, large increases in the biomass of seaweeds and invertebrates on Arctic coasts have already been documented in the past decades and are p...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

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