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IS-NSFC-Forskerutveksling Norge - Kina

Isaksen, Ivar NSFC 2007

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Research stay at the University of California at Irvine - continuation and strengthening of collaboration

The atmospheric chemistry group at the University of Oslo (AC-UiO) has for many years been at the forefront in the discipline of modeling chemical and transport processes in the global atmosphere. The group is participating in numerous national and intern ational projects to calculate past and fu...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Yuan, Yanbin kinesisk statsstip 2006/07

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Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

Subsurface storage of CO2 - Risk assessment, monitoring and remediation (SSC - Ramore)

Large scale underground storage of CO2 off the coast of Norway is internationally pioneering and stimulates for further development of international leading expertise in the area, expertise which in turn will represent a sound fundamental basis for large scale in situ CO2 reservoir storage experi...

Awarded: NOK 21.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

KONT-Kontingenter

Norwegian membership fee to ORFEUS

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology) is a non-profit foundation that aims at co-ordianation of digital broadband seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area. It gathers and provides seismological waveform data to the scient ific community through its data center. I...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Petroleum-related regional studies of the Barents Sea region (PETROBAR)

More than three decades of research and petroleum exploration in the Barents Sea have revealed deep and complex sedimentary basin systems affected by a variety of geological processes. A large hydrocarbon potential has been proven, including multiple sour ce and reservoir intervals. However, ther...

Awarded: NOK 15.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Modelling and Mapping of Potential Vegetation Regeneration Areas in the Sinkat District the Red Sea Hills Area, Eastern Sudan

In arid regions, the regeneration of vegetation is determined by both natural and human factors, which in turn are co-related. The spatial and temporal variability of soil moisture as determined by climate variability and physical characteristics of the c atchment is the major natural factor. The...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Aerosol/gas-phase chemistry and microphysics in global models

Aerosols of natural and anthropogenic origin have environmental impacts through health effects, climate forcing, modification of the hydrological cycle, and reduced visibility. The objective of this project is to improve and validate a coupled aerosol/gas -phase model for the processing and distr...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

USA - Establishing long-term research cooperation with Water Resources Research Group led by Prof VP Singh at Louisiana State University

The main aim of this proposal is to establish a long-term concrete cooperative relation between the hydrology group at UiO and the world's most prominent research groups in the United States. The Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, USA, is a fl agship university of Louisiana and has a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

NA - Stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change in the Arctic region

Ozone is the third most important greenhouse gas according to IPCC. Its distribution in the stratosphere and the troposphere is affected by human activity and has therefore changed significantly over the last decades. Emission of ozone precursors has lead to ozone increases in the troposphere, w...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Understanding vertical motions on sheared continental margins: The western Barents Sea as a key province

The continental margin between the western Barents Sea and the Norwegian-Greenland Sea is a sheared margin formed when Greenland and Eurasia slid past each other during the Eocene epoch and later separated. During the formation of a sheared margin, the s ame geological processes act at different...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Corfu, Fernando norsk spes til Egypt 2006

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Awarded: NOK 7,000

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Andresen, Arild, norsk spes til Egypt 2006

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Awarded: NOK 7,000

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

The search of meteorite impact structures in the Fennoscandian Shield - a novel technique

This proposal outlines a new co-operation program on impact craters between the European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC) and the universities of Oslo and Helsinki along with the geological surveys of Norway and Finland. The main aim is to develop an intelligent search program to identify hidden meteorit...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Effect of varying topography on the drift in shallow-water waves

All oceanic waves induce a nonperiodic drift current that comes in addition to the periodic motion we usually associate with the waves. Shallow-water waves are waves that are long compared to the water depth, and with a motion that extends all the way dow n to the bottom. Due to frictional forces...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

FORMNT-Formidlingsprogrammet MNT

Store, runde strukturer i norsk natur

Formidlingsprojektet har til hersikt å involvere elever til deltagelse og som bidragsytere til tverrfaglige vitenskapelige undersøkelser av runder strukturer i norsk natur. Utgangspunktet er leting etter meteorittkratre i Norge. I Sverige og Finland er de t påvist mer enn 30 meteoritt nedslagskra...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Norway - Washington Petroleum Research Workshop

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Detrital zircon as a tool in stratigraphic correlation and sedimentary provenance analysis

From detailed analytical studies of detrital grains of the mineral zircon (ZrSiO4) in clastic sediments, it is possible to obtain unique information on the age, composition and petrogenesis of the rock(s) in which the zircons formed (the protosource). For any given sedimentary rock, chemical and...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

EUROCORES-Naturvitenskap EUROCORES

Sequence stratigraphy and mineralogical, geochemical, and reservoir-quality evolution of deep-marine clastic deposits

The project is part of an established EFS project within the EUROMARGIN program with EFS project number 01-LEC-EMS 10F, with professor Sadoon Morad, University of Uppsala as the Principle Investigator. Documentation of participiants and full description of the project and subprojects is geven ...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

U-Pb geochronology of Caledonian eclogites

The project will investigate the timing of eclogite formation in the Western Gneiss Region and Seve Nappe Complex of the Scandinavian Caledonides and in North-East Greenland. The presently known chronology of the Western Gneiss Region shows that the high- pressure metamorphic events spanned some ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Andresen, Arild norsk spes 2005 - Egypt

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Awarded: NOK 7,000

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Radiative forcing of climate change

Scientifically this proposal focuses on one selected topic within the research field of climate change, namely on the processes causing climate change. Gaps in the knowledge of this topic are significant and quantitative estimates of climate forcing are u ncertain in many cases. This proposal is ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Surface wave tomography for Norway and adjacent areas

We propose to conduct a new tomographic study of the crust and upper mantle under Norway and adjacent areas by means of state-of-the-art methods and new seismological data, in particular broadband data, which are now available for this region. We will mai nly concentrate on obtaining a better S-w...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

EUROCORES-Naturvitenskap EUROCORES

Lithospheric memory and tectonic (re)activation of volcanic rifted margins and their borderlands

The prime scientific objectives of this EUROMARGINS project are to advance understanding of: 1) processes and events during the formation of a volcanic margin, i.e. from onset of rifting to onset of "normal" sea floor spreading; 2) the processes controlli ng post-breakup history of a volcanic mar...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

CO2 sequestration in aquifers - Experimental studies on mineral trapping

Sequestration of CO₂ in subsurface geologic formations involves a large number of processes, and there is a need for multidisciplinary studies to understand and document the interaction of processes. However, mineral trapping will be the final storage of CO₂ given sufficient...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2011

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Norwegian membership fee to ORFEUS

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for EUrpean Seismology) is a non-profit foundation that aims at co-ordination of digital broadband seismology in the Euro-Mediterrean area. It gathers and provides seismological waveform data to the scientific community through its data center. It ha...

Awarded: NOK 75,938

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Norsk kontinentalmargin nettverk (NORMAR)

Kontinentalmarginer har de siste årene blitt et stort satsningsområde i internasjonal geo-forskning. Mange land (bl.a. Frankrike, Japan, Storbritannia og USA) har etablert nasjonale marginprogrammer og nylig ble EUROMARGINS etablert under det europeiske E SF EUROCORES programmet. Norge kan også v...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Baroclinic Rossby waves and oceanic variability

We propose to examine the oceanic response to changes in atmospheric forcing. Satellite data suggests that westward propagating signals consistent with baroclinic Rossby waves account for a significant fraction of oceanic variability in many regions. Rece ntly, researchers have suggested these wa...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Permafrost in Northern Europe - permafrost distribution and dynamics in Iceland and Norway

The sensitivity of the upper permafrost layers with respect to decadal climatic changes and the potential consequences of permafrost evolution on surface processes, landscape dynamics and natural hazards in high-alpine environments makes knowledge about t he spatial distribution patterns of mount...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

EUROCORES-Naturvitenskap EUROCORES

Crustal architecture and evolution of the conjugate volcanic margins off mid-Norway and East Greenland in a total rift context

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Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

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