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HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Workshop on survey methods for estimating catch, effort and economic value of widely dispersed marine recreational fisheries

The goal of this multidisciplinary workshop is to develop collaborative research on cost-effective methods that can be used to monitor catch and effort and to quantify the economic effects in diffuse marine recreational fisheries in Europe. The importanc e of quantifying catches in marine recrea...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Promoting prosperous coastal communities - Integrated community and business development in a regional perspective

The overriding question asked by this project is: Why have some coastal communities succeeded in developing prosperous communities while others struggle? We will study factors of importance to success: demography and economic development; local and region al collaboration; the importance of a coh...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Relating laboratory and field bioaccumulation; importance of abiotic and biotic parameters, and use of trophic magnification factors

The Bioaccumulation Advisory Group (BSAG) of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is in the process of organizing a workshop to be held in New Orleans 2 days prior to SETAC NA, 2009 (i.e., 18-19 November). The workshop will focus on the low, or non-existing, translation of...

Awarded: NOK 99,418

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

MariFish - Developing fisheries management indicators and targets (DefineIt)

Project Summary DefineIt will construct operational models of fish stock dynamics explicitly taking account of exploitation and climatic conditions and combine these models with economic models. To ensure an outstanding scientific level in each of these a reas, the project brings together key com...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Workshop on the effects of oil and produced water on the health and development of marine fish

We request funding to organize a workshop to discuss the biological effects of oil and produced water on fish. This workshop will bring together leading researchers in the field, from the USA, Canada, Russia, and Norway to discuss their current research a nd their future plans. The workshop will ...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Study of approaches of biomonitoring with risk assessment by construction of biomarker bridges

The theoretical framework for integration of biomonitoring into environmental risk assessment procedures was developed by IRIS. Experimental data were obtained and used to demonstrate that the established framework can be a possible approach to link the b iomonitoring with risk assessment. In ord...

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Study of aproaches of biomonitoring with risk assessment by construction of biomarker bridges

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Comparative studies of ice-associated ecosystems in Arctic shelf seas - development of a pan-Arctic research program

Arctic shelf seas and the ice edge areas are some of the most biologically productive marine ecosystems in the world, but also play globally significant roles in heat exchange, ocean circulation, and geochemical cycling. Data that have emerged over the l ast 15 years reveal tight linkages betwee...

Awarded: NOK 0.44 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Biological Invasions in Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems Under the Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Projections (BINARC)

Human mediated introductions of alien species, also termed as biological invasions (bioinvasions), are recognized as one of the major expressions of global change. Bioinvasions substantially change the ecosystem goods and services by altering energy trans fer pathways and threatening indigenous b...

Awarded: NOK 0.37 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Pseudocalanus: ecology and taxonomy of two sibling copepod species in Svalbard and Northern Norwegian waters

Research on the ecological significance of smaller copepod species in the Arctic has not received adequate attention. Possible reasons are their smaller size, fragile bodies, difficult handling and identification and that they are frequently underrepresen ted due to undersampling by coarse plankt...

Awarded: NOK 40,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

MarinEra - Ecosystem change in the North Sea: Process, Drivers, Predictions (Del 1 HI, Del 2 prosjekt: 193530)

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Investigating coastal ecosystem structure and dynamics using Ecopath/Ecosim ecosystem models and stable isotope data

Northern coastal ecosystems are experiencing environmental perturbations due to changing climate and human activities like harvesting and aquaculture. The project is aimed to investigate ecosystem structure and dynamics using ecosystem models (Ecopath wit h Ecosim) that integrate data from classi...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

MarinEra - Ecosystem change in the North Sea: Process, Drivers, Predictions (Del 2 UIB, del del 1 HI prosjekt: 189592)

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

European Fisheries Technology Platform

Formålet med European Fisheries Technology Platform er å etablere en felles, industriell plattform for fiskerirelatert industri i Europa. En teknologiplattform tjener som industriens talerør om saker som vedrører forskning og utvikling på sektoren og tjen er som en påvirknings (lobby-) plattform ...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The occurrence of skipped spawning and its importance for population dynamics in Northeast Arctic gadoids

The life history strategies of individual fish determine their growth potential and reproductive output. Thus, the life history strategy determines the stock?s dynamics and the potential yield that it can sustain. Life history traits directly affecting th e schedules of growth, survival, and repr...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Observation and Assessment of the Sea with In situ Systems

Several monitoring techniques exist to assess the status of the marine environment. The use of DNA probe assays to accomplish that goal is novel, but most of the techniques require the return of discrete samples to the laboratory for analysis. This approa ch is cumbersome when synoptic sampling a...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Distribution and ecosystem impacts of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Norwegian waters

Alien species represent a growing threat to marine environments due to their potential to change the structure and species composition of the ecosystems they invade. The ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, notorious for wreaking havoc in the Black Sea and ranke d among the world's most detrimental inva...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Diversity and dynamics of marine haptophytes

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Nanomaterials in the marine environment: ecological menaces and remediation opportunities

In the last few years emerging technologies based on application of nanomaterials have provided new industrial and medical opportunities. Nanomaterials seem to have resulted in a true revolution in chemistry and chemical engineering. Environmental chemist and toxicologist are strongly challenged...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bi-Establishing an international collaboration to investigate the impacts of drill cuttings and waterbased drilling fluids on marine sponges

Currently, three sponge experts work in Norway, they include: Dr Hans Tore Rapp (University of Bergen), Dr Raymond Bannister (SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture), and Dr Friederike Hoffmann (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology). Collectiv ely, they have experience in sponge culti...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Age reading workshops on important fish species in the Barents Sea

Norway and Russia cooperate in management of the marine fish resources in the Barents Sea region, which heavily relies on accurate and precise age estimates of the fish. Fish age estimation is a difficult task involving long training and human interpretat ion of fish otolith morphology. As part o...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - An International Echogram Library

Monitoring the marine ecosystem through acoustic surveys is an established methodology used by IMR and similar institutions in other countries, for instance USA and Canada. This generates large amounts of data. There is a need for a system for storing and making available data in a consistent ma...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Response of trophic relationships to climate change in Sub-Arctic Seas

The workshop has the explicit aim to initiate comparative analysis of how climate variability and change affects spatial and temporal match-mismatch relationships in sub-Arctic marine ecosystems. The work will be done in several projects, and we aim at ev entually publishing at least two cooperat...

Awarded: NOK 72,310

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Coastal Oxygen Depletion in Arctic region and Global warming: comparative studies of Norwegian fjords and Arctic rivers

This proposal aims at establishing a close scientific network between Russia, USA and Norway to produce a joint research application related to oxygen deficiency in fjords and estuaries in northern regions. As a part of the planning of a joint project we propose a small pilot study in the Oslofj...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Benthic Indicators for Monitoring the Ecosystem of the Barents Sea

The project synthesizes and integrates research data produced in recent years as a basis for the selection and further development of benthic indicator organisms for the monitoring of contaminants and biodiversity in the Barents Sea. These will be complim ented by research on baseline variations ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Remote sensing of mesoscale oceanic processes by acoustics and satellite sensors - a new approach to understanding of bio-physical coupling

Mesoscale eddies are important for the ocean circulation and are considered important for the open sea productivity. The basic processes behind are difficult to study and are vaguely understood mainly due to inadequate spatio-temporal coverage offered by traditional methodologies. Recent studies ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Fishermen behvior with individual vessel quotas

During the last decade there have been a number of changes in the management of Norwegians fisheries resources. Individual vessel quotas have been introduced in most fisheries, and different programs have also enabled limited transferability of quota. Thi s has led to a number of new opportunitie...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

International workshop Indicator based methods to assess and map biological pollution in the coastal waters of Norway

The introduction of alien species in marine environments is a growing factor of disturbance that can be viewed as a pollution agent. Often the impact of alien species is interpreted as decline in ecological quality resulting from changes in biological, ch emical and physical properties of aquatic...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Pollution Risk and Impact Analysis for the Barents Sea Ecosystem

The Lofoten-Barents Sea (LBS) is Europe's largest fishing ground, with 60% of the catch from this region (mainly cod), being exported to the European Union, and the region sustains the coastal communities of Northern Norway. The strategic importance of LB S ecosystem makes it imperative to establ...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Phylogenetic microarrays and high-throughput sequencing: A new tool for biodiversity assessment in Northern Norway

Utslipp fra menneskelig aktivitet fører til endringer i en rekke økosystemer. Ofte oppdages ikke slike endringer før lenge etter omfattende tap av biodiversitet og store tiltak blir dermed nødvendig for å få på plass utbedringer, om det i det hele tatt er mulig. Utnyttelsen av tilgjengelige ressu...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2016

Location: Vestland

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