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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Nuclear receptor targets for endocrine disrupting effects - mechanisms of action for emerging pollutants?

This project aims to further elucidate the role of nuclear receptors in the mechanisms of action of known and emerging environmental pollutants. We want to explore the hypothesis that dose-dependent routing and cross-talk between different nuclear recepto rs may determine the nature of the endocr...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Occurence and fate of springtime atmospheric deposition of mercury in the Arctic

Deposition of mercury (Hg) from the atmosphere to the sensitive polar ecosystems is of particular interest in the Arctic. This is because studies have indicated the possibility of large depositional fluxes of Hg occurring during the polar spring (so-calle d Hg Atmospheric Depletion Events or AMDE...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Paradoxes of Design: Aesthetication as a Barrier to Sustainable Consumption?

The project will investige related processes of design and consumption by focusing on the way aesthetics is managed by designers and consumers. Following set of research questions arise: How does designers understand sustainable design? How can we underst and differences in how aesthethication co...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Reduced pesticide loads and risks in cropping system

Sustainable agriculture requires that soil, water and air quality are maintained. Pesticides have routinely been found in surface waters receiving agricultural runoff, particularly after heavy autumn/spring rainfall. There are practical ways to ensure tha t risks to the environment are minimized ...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

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

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Witwatersrand Central Basin Mine Water Apportionment Pilot Study

NIVA and CGS are to embark on a pilot study to develop methodologies and techniques to determine ecological footprints and volumetric contributions for apportioning liability for sustainable management of pollution and water ingress into underground gold mine openings of the Witwatersrand Central...

Awarded: NOK 0.77 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Levels and Implications of Persistent Organic Pollutants and other contaminants in South Africa

The lack of knowledge concerning organic pollutants in South Africa, within the context of the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs, is the reason for the thrust of this application. The three partners, the Norwegian School for Veterinary Science (project ow ner), Norwegian Institute of Air Research...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry: Education and Research

With extreme oceanographic variability over very short distances, the waters around South Africa provide a wealth of information on the mechanistic controls on marine biogeochemical variability. South African waters occupy a special niche in oceanography lying at the junction between western and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Springtail (Collembola) responses to changing, variable environments: a bi-polar approach linking individuals to ecosystems

The aim of this project is to investigate the way in which environmental variation cascades up through life history variation to effect species- and assemblage-level responses to habitat fragmentation and climate change. It builds on observations that cli mate change and habitat fragmentation are...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Metagenomics and Gene Discovery in Antarctic Terrestrial Habitats

We aim to use metagenomic methods to access portions of Antarctic low temperature crenarchaeotal genomes. Large insert metagenomic fosmid clones identified by colony hybridization with crenarchaeotal 16S rRNA gene probes will be sequenced and ORFs identif ied. The design of probes to terminal reg...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Gobies and hake in the hypoxic waters of the Benguela up-welling current

Our aim is to investigate how the goby (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) and the shallow water hake (Merluccius capensis) cope with the hypoxic waters of the Benguela current. Both are key species of the ecosystem. They show a remarkable tolerance to the hypoxic conditions found in this up-welling area, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Industrial Applications of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Extraction, Storage and Compression

Introducing hydrogen as universal environment-friendly energy carrier demands efficient technologies allowing to extract it from industrial streams (products of coal gasification, process gases of refineries, etc.), to store it by a compact and safe way, and, finally, to deliver H2 to a consumer ...

Awarded: NOK 0.68 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

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

DEMO2000-Prosjektrettet teknologiutv. petroleumsvirksomhet

Fiber Optic Reservoir Monitoring

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Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Assessment of estuary dependency and management of two important fishery species

The dependency on critical habitats, such as estuaries, represents a bottleneck in the life-history of many exploited fishery species. The proposed project aims to assess the management implications of estuarine dependency in two important South African c oastal fishery species, spotted grunter (...

Awarded: NOK 0.95 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

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

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Design and Scale-up of Solar Grade Silicon production

Elkem Solar shall during the next 5 years become the world's leading supplier of solar grade silicon (SoG-Si) feedstock for the photovoltaic industry. This ambitious goal require a series of efforts from all parts (scientific, technical, marketing, etc.). In the present project, the silicon ingo...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

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

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

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Diet and Reproductive Output in Arctic Molluscs: the Importance of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton (DREAM)

Algae that are associated with the arctic sea ice (ice algae) can constitute a significant fraction of total primary production, and play a fundamental role in polar ecosystems. The recently documented reduction of ice coverage may result in a significant shift in the relative contributions of i...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-NHD-Strategiske instituttprogram finansiert av NHD

New and improved remote sensing techniques for environmental monitoring

The proposed SIP will be divided into four main parts, EM Scattering properties, UAV technology, Environmental Informatics, and Applications. In the EM scattering properties part the main activity is improved understanding and modelling of the interaction of EM waves with the earth surface. This...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Økt gjenvinning gjennom bedre materialsortering

Til grunn for målet ligger 'avfallshierarkiet' som i en miljø- og samfunnsmessig sammenheng anviser at materialgjenvinning og energigjenvinning er å foretrekke framfor deponering av avfallet. Prosjektet skal utvikle og implementere ny teknologi og sorter ingseffektive løsninger som øker volumet ...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

SMART VAREFLYT - smart, effektiv og sikker vareflyt gjennom intelligent emballasje og e-sporing

IKT har avgjørende betydning for logistikksystemets konkurransekraft fordi den bidrar til å redusere tid, avstand og kostnader, og å øke service- og kvalitetsnivået, inkludert økt matvaresikkerhet. Løsninger og systemer for e-sporing og styring i verdikje den gjennom RFID-teknologi og EPC er et v...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Styring av forurensninger i metallurgisk framstilt solcelle silisium

For et solcellemarked i ekstrem vekst, utvikler Elkem Solar AS en metallurgisk prosess for framstilling av Si feedstock materialer. Mens Elkems materialer allerede har vist seg å være av tilstrekkelig kvalitet for å tilfredsstile dagens krav, forventes st rengere krav i framtiden. Elkems material...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Bridge Building NERSC - SIO -WHOI

Acoustic tomography is a cost effective method for obtaining time series of unique, synoptic and horizontally averaged oceanographic depth profiles at a high temporal resolution, which can be tailored and implemented in any ocean area including deep and i ce covered oceans. Today, acoustic tomogr...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

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

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