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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

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

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

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Saging av tynnere solcellewafer med tynnere tråd

REC ScanWafer er verdens største og ledende produsent av trådsagede solcellewafere. Dagens wafere produseres ved å sage opp blokker av solcellesilisium i 200 µm tynne skiver (wafer). Sageprosessen gjennomføres i en trådsag som bruker 160 µm tynn ståltråd kombinert med en sagevæske (slurry). T...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Energy-effective production of mechanical pulp by targeted treatment of extractives and selective fibre wall weakening

The basic idea of this project is to develop and support mill scale implementation of technology for achieving minimum 10% reduction in energy consumption for production of mechanical pulp while maintaining pulp quality and avoiding negative environmental impacts. A 10% reduction in energy consu...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

THORPEX-IPY: Improved forecasting of adverse weather in the Arctic region - present and future

We propose here a Norwegian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) project THORPEX-IPY. THORPEX-IPY is the Arctic component of the international program THORPEX (The Observing System Research and Predictability Program), which is a part of the WMO World Weather Research Program (http...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Contaminants in Polar Regions -Dynamic range of contaminants in polar marine ecosystems

This project is a part of the multinational IPY initiative "Fate, uptake and effects of contaminants in the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystem" (short name COPOL). The overall aim of this initiative is to improve the knowledge of the dynamic range of man-made contaminants in marine ecosystems of Pol...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY proposal under the ArcticWOLVES initiative ID No: 672

Strongly cyclic interaction between plants, herbivores and predators typically drives the food web dynamics over large tracts of the arctic tundra biome. These interaction cycles, however, now appear to be fading out at the southern edge of tundra, possib ly due to climate warming. The Arctic Cli...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport - Norway

To address the above objectives, POLARCAT will carry out four major (and a few smaller) co-ordinated measurement campaigns in the Arctic. These will involve about 12 different aircraft (some involved in more than one mission), a ship, and all the major Ar ctic surface stations, for which long-ter...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Natural Climate and Environmental Changes and Human Adaptation: From Science to Public awareness

SciencePub aims to answer two critical questions in current Arctic climate research: What characterizes natural climate change in the Arctic, and how did early pioneer immigrants relate to climate change? By studying natural climate archives in terrestria l and marine sediments from Svalbard, N N...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Bærekraftig utvikling av havområdene i nord. Muligheter og trusler.

Hovedaktiviteten bestått av to PhD prosjekt. Det første, "Third State Involvement in the Context of Establishing the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf" behandler prosessen med å fastsette yttergrensen for kontinentalsokkelen hvor denne strekker seg utover 200 nautiske mil fra kysten. Klarlegg...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DOC turnover in polar microbial food webs.

Microbial communities, including phytoplankton, protozoa, bacteria, archaea, fungi and virus, are by far the most abundant and the most taxonomic and genetically diverse group of organisms in marine pelagic ecosystems. Biological activity, biomass, produc tion and remineralization in these system...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Mapping threats to arctic bird populations. The effect of infectious organisms and pollution on bird health. IPY NO 172 BirdHealth

The arctic environment and its wildlife are currently being threatened; from climate change, from pollution and from infectious organisms (IO). Health in wildlife is regulating population numbers through individual survival and reproduction. Little is kno wn about the combined impact of IO and po...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Surveys, stable isotopes, satellites and salmon: exploring elements of the marine ecology of Barents Sea Salmo salar

Salmon rivers in northernmost Norway, Finland and the Kola peninsula (Russia), support important fisheries, both in coastal areas and in the rivers themselves, and contribute more than 50% of the world freshwater catch of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ). The River Tana, along with other impo...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Quotas as a management approach for sustainable harvesting of Atlantic salmon populations in rivers and bag-net fisheries in Norway.

Management of Atlantic salmon is moving towards using management targets (numbers of females left to spawn) as a tool for obtaining sustainable harvest and viable populations. To obtain the desired number of spawners, fishing pressure has to be determined before the start of the season. To use t...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Project IBISCA Investigating the biodiversity of soil and canopy arthropods

Project summary Arthropods of tropical forests constitute the dominant component of biodiversity on Earth and are essential for structuring terrestrial ecosystems. This project represents the first attempt to compare arthropod species richness in the soil and understorey vs. canopy habitats of a...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

New bath smelting process for production of silicomanganese alloys using waste materials

The bearing idea of the proposed project is to develop a new bath smelting process for production of SiMn alloy, which will significantly utilise and reduce post-plant deposited waste materials, in addition to reducing energy consumption and in-plant mate rials handling and storage. The project...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Dataassistert verktøy for bærekraftig produktinformasjon (Data assisted tool for sustainability product information)

Produksjonsbedrifter som opererer i et globalt marked blir stilt overfor stadig økende krav til dokumentasjon av prestasjoner og prosesser knyttet til produkter. Det finnes i dag relativt gode og standardiserte verktøy knyttet til ytre miljø (LCA og EPI), men tilsvarende er langt dårligere utvik...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Remelting and inclusion refining of aluminium

Remelting and Inclusion Refining of Aluminium Remelting of post-consumed and process aluminium scrap reveals new challenges both on the environmental, metal yield and metal quality side. This topic has become very relevant due to the continuously increas ing energy prices in Europe. The proposed...

Awarded: NOK 15.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

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

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

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

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

PPS Arctic Norway - the Norwegian contribution to the internationally endorsed IPY project #151; PPS Arctic

The PPS Arctic Norway project is the Norwegian contribution to the circumpolar IPY core project PPS Arctic (Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resource components a long and across the Arctic delimitation z...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Monitoring of Development in Traditional Indigenous Lands of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Northwestern Russia

Urfolkenes tradisjonelle landområder i Nenets autonome område opplever alvorlige miljøpåvirkninger gjennom moderne industriell utvikling. Tundra og reinbeite ødelegges eller forurenses i stor skala. Urfolkenes (nenetsernes og izhma-komiernes) tradisjonell e næringer og kulturelle overlevelse er t...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

EU6-STRA-Strålevern, EU’s 6.rammeprogram

European approach to nuclear and radiological emergency management

The proposed IP, through the commitment of 51 operational emergency management organisations, stakeholder panels and competent RTD institutes of many European countries will build a fully interactive framework for initiating and promoting practical improv ements of emergency management and rehabi...

Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

ISPNATTEK-ISP - naturvit. og teknologi

Institusjonsforankra strategisk prosjekt (ISP) ved det teknisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet

Det Institusjonsforankrede Strategiske Prosjektet (ISP) skal styrke områdene Økt oljeutvinning og Risikostyring ytterligere, i tråd med de anbefalinger som gis i Evalueringen av ingeniørfag og Fagplan for ingeniørvitenskap. I prosjektet The ISP- Project o n IOR at UiS vil man undersøke potensiale...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Rogaland