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HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Study of the long-term effects on Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus) exposed to an oil-polluted Calanus finmarchicus diet.

The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of trophic transfer of hydrocarbons, following a worst-case scenario oil spill, on the development and reproduction of Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus). The study will examine the long-term effects o f feeding oil-polluted Calanus finmarchic...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Efficient, low-cost monitoring of calanus

Being the dominant zooplankton group in the North Atlantic, herbivore copepods play an essential role in the food web energy transfer. As an important food item for commercially exploitable fish stocks, it is vital to fill the knowledge gaps on the mechan isms governing the variability in biomass...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Inngår i 201779: Increased power and salmon production with Environmentally Designed Operation of Regulated Rivers

Mer laks og mer kraft ved miljødesignet vassdragsdrift: Formålet med prosjektet er å utvikle strategier for drift av vannkraftverk i regulerte elver som optimaliserer forholdet mellom kraftproduksjon og produksjon av laksefisk. Prosjektet vil også utvikl e kriterier for hvordan vannkraftverk, bå...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Emission trading in Europe: The importance of allocation rules

The project will explore the implications of different allocation rules in emission trading schemes (ETS). Current allocation rules in the EU and Norwegian ETS are partly designed so that firms can influence on the number of allowances they get (especiall y for new entrants). The allocation rules...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN. Impact of environmental contaminants on smolt physiology, migration and marine survival in wild Atlantic salmon.

Pre-smolts will be exposed to environmentally relevant levels of contaminants known to occur in those Norwegian rivers supporting spawning populations of wild Atlantic salmon. The proposal will focus primarily on agricultural contaminants (pesticides), al though putative endocrine disrupters and ...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Distributed Renewable Energy Hydrogen Systems

Systems based on renewable energy (RE) sources with medium-term hydrogen (H2) energy storage have the potential to play an important role in various power applications. RE/H2-systems are well suited for high-cost applications, such as remote telecommunica tion stations and uninterrupted power sup...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Reasons for opting out of certified organic production in Norway

The Norwegian government aims to achieve an organically managed area of 10% by 2010, as well as a 15% organic share of the total food production and consumption in Norway by 2015. Organic farming has developed rapidly since the early 1990's. From 1991 to 2005, the area of organically certified or...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Recreational consumption as a market for farm based food and tourism businesses

Increasing leisure time increases the importance of leisure related consumption as compared to everyday consumption. Recreational consumption may therefore represent a potentially important market for developing small scale farm-based rural businesses. Lo cal attachment through relatives or secon...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Sustainable Polymers for Solar Collector Applications

Previous results from the group have resulted in the first commercial all-plastics solar collectors. This success has been an inspiration behind the proposed new IEA-SHCP Task "Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications", now approved by the ExCo. The aim of the present project is partic...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Ocean Prediction Networking

Our proposal seeks funds (1) to network Norwegian resources, (2) to implement a formal collaboration on the national level, and (3) to foster international collaboration within the field of ocean prediction. Reliable ocean state description and forecasts of, e.g., extreme currents and waves, ha...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The geography of social vulnerability, environemental hazards and climate change.

The study set out to modify, apply and evaluate a model for environmental risk assessment, here termed 'The vulnerability of a place model', as a means for studying the potential impact of future extreme climatic events in Norwegian regions. The model, de veloped and used in an American context, ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - The health of the North Sea Environment - an international workshop

An international workshop/conference will be arranged in 2007 to develop plans for a future international research activity to study the health of the North Sea. Work in the project will be through an international steering group with members from academi a, management and industry in Norway, Ger...

Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

IGBP/IHDP Land Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone

The proposal seeks financial support for Prof. Jozef M. Pacyna to perform his tasks as a chairman of the IGBP/IHDP Land-Ocan Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project. The main goal of LOICZ is to provide the knowledge, understanding and prediction needed to allow coastal communities to a...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Development and clinical testing of juice rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants

We will develop juice rich in natural antioxidants and phytochemicals and test bioactivity in clinical trials. Specifically, together with TINE R&D we aim at develop two juices based on grapes, pomegranates and/or blueberries. By screening potential ingre dients available on the marked we will op...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

5 - Antibiotics from the sea - isolation and characterization of novel compounds from cold-water benthic organisms(fortsetter som 184688)

The modern society relies on a continuous development of new drugs, either to replace older and less efficient drugs, or even more important, to address clinical needs that are unmet today. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in common hu man pathogenic bacteria has fuelled the n...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Automatic weed assessment for precision spraying in cereals

The load of herbicides on Norwegian cereals fields is unnecessarily high. The spraying represents an unnecessary cost for farmers, in Norway estimated to about 20 millions NOK yearly, and lots of herbicides superfluously spread to the environment. The mos t important reason for this excessive her...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Preclinical diagnosis of prion disease

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a threat to food safety and to human and animal health. Diagnosis of these diseases and early detection of the infective agent is vital for future spread and prevention of disease. The identification of candidate molecules as biomarkers of pre...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Stability and mobility of Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages in clinical and environmental strains of Escherichia coli O103

E. coli O103 belongs to a subset of serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) associated with severe human illnesses. Shiga toxin (Stx) production is essential but not sufficient for virulence in pathogenic STEC as factors involved in att achment, haemolysis and iron scavenging a...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Glacial Ocean Mixing: Investigating the role of diapycnal ocean mixing for glacial climate stability and sensitivity

Diapycnal mixing is a source of potential energy in the ocean and is therefore believed to limit the rate of overturning on centennial and longer timescales. For the present-day ocean, winds and dissipation of tidal energy drive the diapycnal mixing with approximately similar contributions. Both ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

ONTOGENY OF LIPID DIGESTION AND EFFECTS OF FEEDING PRE-DIGESTED LIPIDS TO ATLANTIC COD (GADUS MORHUA) LARVAE

Lipids provide cod larvae with energy and essential fatty acids, the latter being structural components of biological membranes and precursors for the eicosanoids; signalling molecules which participate in regulation of a range of biological processes. Un til now, research on dietary lipids for m...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

POLEWARD: A drifter experiment to quantify the poleward transport, transformation and spreading of oceanic properties

We propose to observe, describe and quantify the oceanic transport poleward and the transformation, spreading and mixing rates of water parcels in the Nordic and Barents Seas by monitoring the motion of the water parcels. In the process we will be quantif ying the mechanisms transforming the warm...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Pre-project on "Intel-feed" applied to marine aquaculture ?A nanotechnology approach.

The development of an off-the-shelf microparticulate diet for small larval fish is one of the most important nutritional technologies needed by aquaculture that has not yet been fully developed. The main problem today is not so much nutritional compositio n, but that most of the water soluble nut...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The impact of pancreas disease (PD) on flesh quality of Atlantic salmon

PD is a serious and infectious disease. In 2005, PD was diagnosed in salmon at 35 seawater locations as compared to 11 in year 2000. Most Norwegian salmon farms with a PD diagnosis are located in Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordene but PD is unfortunately spre ading to new geographic areas. The indust...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Avl for bedre helse hos gris

Organisering og oppslutning i norsk svineavl er unikt internasjonalt. Tilslutningen til avlsarbeidet i næringa, faglig dyktighet i Norsvin samt aksept og støtte fra myndighetene har bidratt til at norsk avlsmatriale i dag er verdensledende på flere område r. Dette har resultert i at en internasjo...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Innlandet

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Culturally grounded tourism and local food in rural development

Cultural activities and heritage, rural tourism and small-scale food production (CULTOURFOOD) are three fragmented sectors or industries with many actors and little coordination. In spite of increasing economic and social importance and political awarenes s, those industries have separate sector ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Future catch platform for the Norwegian fishing fleet

The aim of the Strategic Institute Programme (SIP) is to further develop SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture as a national and international research institute within the field of fisheries technology. The programme will emphasize the development of energy e fficient fishing vessels, increased work ...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Integrated Marine Electrical Power and Control Systems

During the last decade there has been a technology shift in marine power and propulsion systems from mechanical solutions to diesel-electric propulsion involving advanced computer-based control systems partly or fully integrated with each others. The ba sis for the application of the project is...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

Investigating hydrodynamic aspects and control strategies for ship-to-ship operations

Applications of ship-to-ship operations for cargo transfer are expected to be increasing in the future. Export of Russian crude oil from Murmansk is based on ship-to-ship transfer from floating storage vessels. It is assumed that future development of Nor thwest Russian onshore and offshore field...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SKATT-Skatteøkonomi

An Empirical Evaluation of the Norwegian 2006 Tax Reform

The 2006 tax reform can be expected to have a wide range of consequences for both firms and personal tax payers. Since several important data sources have a time lag, we will start with preliminary studies that will serve as preparations to a more complet e evaluation when more data are available...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Driftssikkerhet for vindturbiner

Målet med prosjektet er å utvikle metoder og verktøy som bidrar til et mer systematisk og kostnadseffektivt vedlikehold av vindkraftanlegg. Prosjektet skal også bidra til å etablere et grunnlag for gjøre riktige valg mht drift- og vedlikehold når nye vind parker skal spesifiseres. Metoder og ver...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo