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HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Zooplankton life cycles at high latitudes: how is seasonal food availability and predation pressure affecting fat storing strategies?

Animals at high latitudes often face the challenge of a short feeding season. Many marine copepods are adapted to such environments. They produce large fat sacs which serve as energy stores for the winter, and the winter is spent in relatively safe habita ts where activity is reduced and metaboli...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Zooplankton-fish relationship between Calanus and Norwegian spring spawning herring in the Norwegian Sea.. Utenlandsstipend

The overseas stay at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, USA, will be a part of my Ph.D. study within the RCN project ADAPT on the zooplankton-fish relationship between Calanus and Norwegian spring spawning herring. My st udy will focus on the timing of herring m...

Awarded: NOK 71,499

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Further advances: In situ molecular quantification of zooplankton feeding and bactivory in complex marine systems.

The question of who eats what and why has been at the forefront of plankton ecology for over a century. Accurate data on trophic interactions for key organisms, such as copepods and other zooplankton, is vital for understanding the mechanisms that structu re pelagic ecosystems. While many advanc...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Light and life in Norwegian waters: Physics/Biology based approach to satellite monitoring of primary production and algal blooms

The project I am involved in has the title “Light and Life in Norwegian waters: Physics/Biology based approach to satellite monitoring of primary production and algae blooms”. The project focuses on the further development of existing models for analysing satellite images in order to evaluate th...

Awarded: NOK 34,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Relative bestandsestimater og simuleringsberegninger for nordøstatlantisk vågehval.

A) Det skal beregnes en serie av årlige bestandsestimater med usikkerhetsanslag for nordøstatlantisk vågehval. Disse vil bli brukt til å estimere en viktig populasjonsdynamisk størrelse (kalt MSYR1+) i et annet prosjekt. B) Prosjektet har en rekke delpr oblemstillinger. I noen grad brukes resul...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Non-hydrostatic Ocean General Circulation Models

The tendency for human to operate in deeper waters, the increasing awareness of coastal and marine management, and the necessity for accurate parameterisations of unresolved processes in climate models have moved the process studies performed with Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCMs) to high...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Development and Coordination of the IGBP program on Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ II)

LOICZ is one of the eight core projects of IGBP studying the Earth system interactions. The project aims at better understanding of global environmental changes occurring in the coastal zone due to natural changes, such as climate and those due to changes in the global economy/trade and policy. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Evolution of Specially Protected Marine Areas - Implications for Norway

Under international law of the sea coastal States may establish in relation to environmental pollution specially protected marine areas under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) Article 211(6) in co-operation with the International Maritime Organisa tion (IMO) and through compliance with va...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Dynamics and genetics of oceanic - coastal cod population complexes

The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a highly mobile species found in an open, marine habitat with no obvious dispersal barriers. Despite this fact, our recent population genetics work has shown that coastal Skagerrak cod is structured into local population s. This observation has opened a whole ne...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Exposure as a factor for primary and secundary production in a kelp forest

It is a well established fact that kelp forest are highly productive areas, with an annual production about 10 times of what might be found in phytoplankton dominated waters. Resent research have also shown that kelp is an important carbon source for many animals in these areas. However, few ani...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Phenotypic variability in life-history traits: is intra population variability important for zooplankton dynamics

State-of-the-art studies in theoretical disciplines predict that populations will evolve as environments change. There is hardly any empirical information that can shed light on the importance of this process for natural marine zooplankton. This is most u nfortunate, as many of the changes predic...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Svalbard

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessing marine food chains using molecular probes

The project aims at developing molecular probes, and use these in assessments of marine food chains. Group-specific or species-specific probes will be developed, tested and validated, and used to detect the prey organisms for carnivorously feeding copepo ds. Pellets from freshly collected copepo...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Flagellate biodiversity of marine North Atlantic sandy beaches - training, Barcelona

DNA isoleres fra prøver samlet i felt fra Hulvika og Håøya i Oslofjorden på ulike tidspunkter i løpet av første prosjektår og på Vestlandet (Espegren utenfor Bergen) i løpet av sommeren (2004). DNAet holdes dypfryst (-80 °C) og taes med til Barcelona samm en med dypfryste paralleller fra de samme...

Awarded: NOK 37,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

New approaches in the understanding of schooling fish: combining individual based models with direct observations

In marine ecosystems populations of schooling fish creates an extra challenge for fisheries, management and marine science. Schooling fish are distributed in schools of different sizes, of different shape and with different dynamics, depending on the ind ividual motivation of the fish and ecolog...

Awarded: NOK 0.97 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Foraging ecology of bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) and its effects on the benthic community in the Arctic

During the next 3 years, we will perform a series of investigations to explore the dynamics of bearded seal foraging and the effects of these activities on benthic communities of the Arctic. We will: 1) complete data collection from our captive bearded se al experiments in one final set of trials...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Sex role dynamics in gobies: ultimate and proximate control

Traditionally, animals have been considered to have rather unflexible and 'conventional' sex roles: males compete for access to females by courtship and aggression; females are more coy and choosy. However, recent theory suggests that sex roles may vary a ccording to mate availability (operationa...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Taxonomy and phyleogeography of deep-water calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.Postdr./Utenl.s

We propose to combine traditional taxonomy based on detailed morphological analyses with molecular methods to investigate the N Atlantic and Arctic deep-sea calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea). Unfortunately Calcarea offer very few morphological characters for reliable (informative) phylogene...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Flagellate biodiversity of marine North Atlantic sandy beaches, Dr.gr.stip/postdr.stip.

The flagellates inhabiting marine sandy shores in general and in Norway in particular are poorly known. The main aim of the project is to establish firm knowledge of the flagellate biodiversity and community structure of sandy beaches in different geograp hical regions along the North Atlantic Dr...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

A taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analyses of the amphipod genus metopa (stenothoidae).

The project is focusing on the taxonomy of the stenothoid genus Metopa, a genus that is particularly species-rich in the NE Atlantic and the Arctic. The first part of the project will be a traditional taxonomical revision of the genus, first of all entailing redescriptions of the many poorly know...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Phylogenetic analyses and taxonomic revision of the order Mysidacea, Crustacea. Including new deep-sea mysid species from the .., Postdr.

Discovery of several species new to science of the crustacean order Mysidacea are reported from the Iceland Basin. Preliminary results suggest establishment of one new genus and 8-11 new species. Close morphological similarities between these new species with Antarctic mysids suggest a common anc...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Multi-usage system for towed vehicles, 2 dr.gr.stip.

I prosjektet utvikler vi et integrert system der undervannsenhetene er to tauete farkoster som begge har som hovedinstrumentering flerfrekvente akustiske måleenheter og optiske måleenheter med signalgrensesnitt for dataoverføring der vi anvender nyeste te knologi for hybride fiberoptisk-elektrisk...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Adaption to the ecosystem: Co-evolution of life histories of calanus and herring in the Norwegian Sea (ADAPT), 2 dr.gr.stip.

At present, there exists a conceptual model of the effects of the physical and seasonal environment in the Norwegian Sea on the feeding behaviour, vertical and horizontal migrations, growth and life cycle of Calanus finmarchicus and herring, and also of t he effects of these two population upon e...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Minimizing errors due to nonlinear effects in fisheries and research echo sounders and sonars, dr.gr.stip.

Under development of a new echo sounder with extremely high accuracy and dynamics, a significant and undesired effect was found in the radiation of acoustic energy from the transducer. At typical drive levels, nonlinear sound was generated in the sea whi ch to a significant degree influences the...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Solar powered opisthobranchs - seaslugs with internal photosynthetic chloroplasts, Dr.gr.stip.

The project focuses on the functionality between photosynthetical chloroplasts found in the opisthobranch genera Elysia and Hermea (Saccoglossans). "State of the art" bio optical methods (Pulse Amplitude Modylated fluorometry, spectral absorbtion/Fluoresc ens/irradiance and HPLC) will be used to:...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Assessomg and Compensating for Uncertainty in Combined Trawl and Acoustic surveys (ACUCTA)

The overall goal is to improve the absolute estimates of population abundance from surveys including measures of uncertainty with main focus on cod, herring, capelin and blue whiting. This will be done through 1. Understanding the statistical properties o f the trawl and acoustic data of the invo...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Abudance estimation by automatic analysis of marine species from underwater optical records, Post.dr.

In August 2002 successful video records were taken at the trawl opening at 500-600 m depth west of Spitzbergen. Very clear records of fish individuals and stable camera conditions were obtained. Simultaneous detection of fish and its bottom shadow enables a 3D detection of fish position. Thus fi...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Legitimacy and compliance in Norwegian offshore Fisheries, Postdr.stip.

The issue of compliance has to an increasing extent been recognised as a critical factor in sustainable fisheries management. However, the issue has been little explored empirically, and there is little knowledge on the actual mechanisms of compliance, pa rticularly in offshore fisheries. This pr...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Oslo

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Population ecology of walruses on Svalbard

Walruses in Svalbard numbered in the hundreds of thousands before 3 centuries of over-harvesting brought the population to the verge of extinction. Today this stock is in an early phase of recovery; it consists of a few thousand animals. Little is known a bout habitat utilization, foraging areas ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Marine coastal habitat typology - how to model and classify habitats

For å forvalte økosystemer, må tradisjonell artsfokus kombineres med en helhetlig, overordnet forståelse av økosystemer og kunnskap om habitater. Vi trenger derfor robuste systemer for typologisering av habitattyper. Slike systemer har ennå ikke blitt anv endt på Norskekysten. Hovedmålet med pros...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bowhead whales - at the edge of extinction in the Northeast Atlantic

Bowhead whales are endemic to arctic and sub-arctic regions of the Atlantic, Bering, Beaufort, Chukchi and Okhotsk Seas. They live in close association with the sea ice edge. Since the last glaciation period the distribution of bowhead whales have fluctua ted widely in concordance with climatic f...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

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