47 projects

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MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Lightscapes ALANIS - ALANIS: Impacts of Artificial Light At Night on pelagIc ecosystems in European Seas

Light plays a huge role in ocean life — not just for powering photosynthesis, but also for guiding how animals find food, avoid predators, and move through the water. But human activities are changing these natural light patterns. Coastal darkening, caused by things like pollution and algae bloom...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Assessing the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules and seafloor massive sulphides

The Mining Impact project was selected as part of the third phase of the successful JPI Oceans Joint Action on the ecological aspects of deep-sea mining. The research consortium brings together experts from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Unite...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

IndicatorS Of changing Lightscapes in Underwater Marine Ecosystems

The ISOLUME project will investigate how changes in light affect our oceans. Responding to a call from JPI Oceans, this international effort aims to understand the impacts of coastal water darkening and artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution on marine environments. Led by the Leibniz Institut...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Integrated approach to the challenge of sustainable food systems: adaptive and mitigatory strategies to address climate change & malnutrion

The systemic results of the project have been published across a range of esteemed journals, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the research. These publications span key academic platforms such as Nutrients, Economies, Agronomy, PloS One, Science of Food and Agriculture, Frontiers in Pl...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Akershus

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Underwater Noise DIAPHONIA, Diagnostic framework to assess and predict the impact of underwater noise on marine species

The marine environment is affected by noise pollution from human activity. However, it is very difficult to conduct clinical and pathological analyses on living organisms in the marine environment so the extent of effects noise pollution has on marine fauna remains uncertain. DIAPHONIA is bringin...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Characterization of maritime noise in different european basins and its impact on ecological relevant deuterostome invertebrates

DeuteroNoise project is focused on characterizing noise pollution caused by maritime traffic, both through measurements and simulations, and to test its impact on various species of marine invertebrates. Nowadays, there is growing concern about the impact that noise from human activities can have...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

Underwater Noise PURE WIND, Impact of sound on marine ecosystems from offshore wind energy generation

Offshore wind farms (OWF) contribute substantial levels of noise to the marine environment. In the 30 years of OWF operation in the EU waters, most research effort has been focused on understanding the impacts of construction of OWF, but our knowledge of noise in the operational phase is limited....

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Underwater Noise <orchestra, ecOsystem Responses to Constant offsHorE Sound specTRA>

The increase of anthropogenic underwater noise (AUN) through oil exploitation, shipping and the construction and operation of offshore wind farms (OWF) has altered the marine acoustic environment significantly and is now a global challenge. AUN can harm a variety of animals by impairing causinng ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Vestland

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

Transnational cooperation for protecting niche areas from marine corrosion and biofouling by green coatings and new testing technologies

During the last reporting period, SINTEF successfully developed the second generation of coatings featuring a dense, cross-linked network while maintaining flexibility. Several functional additives were introduced into the sol-gel-derived formulations, and homogeneous mixtures were achieved by fi...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

MarTERA LOCOMOTION, Highly durable, low-cost membrane electrode assemblies for maritime fuel cell applications

The LOCOMOTION project aimed to address critical barriers to the adoption of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) in maritime transport. The project adopted a bottom-up approach to fuel cell component design, focusing on three key areas: membrane development, catalyst innovation, and carb...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

Technology transfer from ballast water to aquaculture water for removal of delousing agents in wellboats and pens

The overall idea of the WeBoat project is to develop an environmentally friendly marine water treatment technology for post-sealice treatment application in salmon aquaculture. WeBoat work with transfer and optimalisation of existing technologies from ballast water treatment to wellboats used for...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Oslo

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offshore operasjoner 2

MarTERA MARINAL, Safe use of aluminium in marine multi-material constructions

The main objective of MARINAL has been to increase the use of aluminum alloys in marine constructions. An important obstacle to the extended use of aluminium in marine applications is uncertainty about the corrosion properties. Marine and offshore design codes and standards focus on steel and usu...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROLEUM-PETROLEUM

MarTERA <UNDINA, Underwater robotics with multi-modal communication and network-aided positioning system>

UNDINA aims at providing a reliable, compact, plug-and-play communication, networking, and positioning system specifically designed for resource constrained AUVs, having easy maneuverability, low weight, small dimensions, and low associated operational costs. Three AUV prototypes with optimized i...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

MarTERA ADRIATIC, cooperAtion unDerwater foR effIcient operATions vehICles

A distributed, integrated and coordinated vendor-neutral software framework that enables UWVs, from different manufactures, to share (integrate) functionalities (robot features) in a transparent way. - A distributed set of intelligent components for perception, decision-making and environment ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

MarTERA BIOGLIDER, BIOGLIDER : Autonomous Exploration and Monitoring of Marine Ecosystems

BIOGLIDER is a MarTERA ERA-NET Cofund project with the main goal of developing and demonstrating a smart solution for measurement and monitoring of marine environmental status, marine ecosystems and ecosystem processes. BIOGLIDER combines acoustic and optical sensors for characterization of biolo...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Toward a risk-based assessment of microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems

We now know that there are plastics everywhere in the oceans. Plastics have been found in the intestinal system of virtually all marine organisms studied to date, but less is known of internal concentrations. Until recently, the focus has been on particles that can be identified using a microscop...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Oslo

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters

Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters (FACTS) was started with the intention to create new knowledge and improve our understanding of the origin of microplastic in the northern European oceans, along which routes it is transported, and where it ends up. Investigated transpo...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Downscaling Climate and Ocean Change to Services: Thresholds and Opportunities

Global change from anthropogenic forcing will have significant impacts at regional and coastal scales on marine systems and dependent socioeconomic systems and ecosystem services. To understand and predict these impacts on regional seas and coasts is essential for developing robust strategies for...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Downscaling Climate and Ocean Change to Services: Thresholds and Opportunities

The project CE2COAST aims to generate and analyse regional observational datasets and downscaled ocean simulations and deliver advanced understanding of the state, variability and trends of ocean and coastal service pressures. Ocean downscaling relies on outputs of global scale Earth system model...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

MixED Layer hEterogeneitY

In the uppermost layer of the ocean, known as the mixed layer, temperature, salinity, and nutrients are uniformly distributed and well mixed. This mixed layer is a hot spot for biology and a crucial part of the heat and momentum transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere. Understanding the mix...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Analysis techniques for quantifying nano-and microplastic particles and their degradation in the marine environment

Here we provide a summary of the main activities and achievements by SINTEF Ocean within the JIP Oceans project ANDROMEDA. The project aimed to develop an instrument platform for advanced characterization of nanoplastic (NP; <1 µm) and small MP (sMP; 1-10 µm). SINTEF Ocean’s activities primarily ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Analysis techniques for quantifying nano-and microplastic particles and their degradation in the marine environment

Methods for analysing microplastics (MP) can be broadly divided into two categories; Simple and budget-friendly or more advanced and costly. Common to all existing methods is that they still require more development and validation. There is a need for cheap and fast methods for the identification...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Improving the representation of small-scale nonlinear ocean-atmosphere interactions in Climate Models

To initiate and support societal actions as a response to climate change, future projections of the climate system require high-resolution coupled climate model simulations. An important challenge for high-resolution modelling is the need to resolve processes that have typically been parameterize...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Role of oceandynamics and Ocean-Atmosphere interactions in Driving cliMAte variations andfutureProjections of impact-relevant extreme events

ROADMAP aimed to expand current understanding of how the Northern Hemisphere (NH) oceans’ surface state (temperature, sea ice cover) and dynamics (water movement) influence the extratropical atmospheric circulation and associated weather and climate extreme events. The project did this across a w...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters

This was a small project as part of a larger European project under the JPI ocean umbrella, "Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters" (FACTS), coordinated by the University of Aalborg. FACTS provided increased knowledge and improved our understanding of the sources, transpor...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters

The project FACTS created new knowledge and improve our understanding on the sources, transport, occurrence, and fate of small microplastics in the northern marine waters. FACTS combined the newest methods to describe transport and geographical sources of microplastics contamination. We also inve...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Akershus

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Fluxes and Fate of Microplastics in Northern European Waters

The overall goal of JPI FACTS project is to clarify how MP move vertically in the water column with time under well-known hydrodynamic conditions. FACTS is structured around a set of sampling campaigns from the German Bight to Svalbard as well as coastal areas such as the Byfjorden fjord in Berge...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Environmental impacts and risks of deep-sea mining (MiningImpact 2)

The JPI Oceans action 'Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining' aims at assessing the long-term impacts of polymetallic nodule mining on the deep-sea environment. Core of the action is the research project MiningImpact 2 project which gathers 32 partners from 10 different countries and will conduct...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

OCEANSensor

OceanSensor is a 3-year EU-Martera project that started on June 1, 2018 and ended on December 15, 2021. The main goal was to develop, improve and refine the use of existing underwater sensor technology. There were six partners from four countries in the project. The project was co-ordinated by Pr...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2021

Location: Vestland

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offshore operasjoner 2

Retrospective Analysis of Historical AIS Data for Navigational Safety through Recommended Routes

The HANSA project has investigated Retrospective Analysis of Historical AIS Data (Automatic Identification System) using both traditional AIS (terrestrial and satellite) and onboard AIS to enhance Navigational Safety through the concept of Recommended Routes. This has been done by collecting, co...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Rogaland

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