2,710 projects

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

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Operational evaluation tools for fisheries management options

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Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Quality labelling and consumer responses in the Norwegian food sector

This is a three year cooperative KMB-project involving The Norwegian Agricultural Economic Research Institute (NILF). The Norwegian Food Centre (Matforsk), The Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Fiskeriforskning) and The National i nstitute for consumer research (SIFO). It...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The impact of produced water on fish reproduction: a multigeneration approach

Major oil and gas activities are on-going along much of the Norwegian continental shelf, and it is anticipated that exploration and production will expand in the near future to include new oil fields in the high Arctic. Of major concern is the environment al impact of waste discharges from oil pr...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Gobies in Evolutionary Ecology: a Nordic Network

The main aim of this proposal is to further develop Nordic collaborative efforts and exchange of ideas in the study of evolutionary ecology of gobies. Several species of Nordic gobies have proven to be very successful as models in studying questions in be havioural and evolutionary ecology. Notab...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SFI-Sentre for forskningsdrevet innovasjon

CREATE - Centre for Research-based Innovation in Aquaculture Technology

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Awarded: NOK 80.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

FRANCISELLA SP. INFECTION IN ATLANTIC COD (Gadus morhua) - STUDY OF PATHOGEN AND HOST IMMUNE CELLS INTERACTIONS

A new bacterial disease affecting cultured cod has been causing serious and increasing number of disease outbreaks at Norwegian sea cage facilities since summer of 2004. This bacterium has recently been identified as Francisella sp., a fastidious facultat ive intracellular pathogen. The propose...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Predator-prey interactions and how they influence the behaviour and morphology of the queen conch Strombus gigas for sea ranching

The doctoral study conducted by Ellen Sofie Grefsrud was carried out to investigate the defence capabilities in P. maximus of cultured and wild origin to better understand predator-prey interactions between crabs and scallops in culture (funded by The Res earch Council of Norway -project 137326)....

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Personlig utenlandsstipend for Ane Sandtrø for besøk ved professor Vikram N. Vakharias laboratorium ved Universitetet i Maryland

Utenlandsoppholdet er en del at et stipendiatprosjekt kalt "The surface structure of IPN virus -role of central VP2 amino acids on epitope formation and development of persistent infection". Innen dette prosjektet satser vi på kompetanseutvikling innen st rukturstudier av ikosahedriske virus, hvi...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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 - Oslove

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

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Bærekraftig utvikling av havområdene i nord. Muligheter og trusler.

The main activity has been two PhD prosjects. The first, "Third State Involvement in the context of establishing the outer limits of the continental shelf" deals with the process where a coastal State delineates the outer limits of the continental shelf where it extends beyond 200 nautical miles...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2015

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

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

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Decontamination of persistent organc pollutants in fishmeal and fish oil

Fishmeal and fish oil are the most heavily contaminated materials used in feed production, with products of European fish stocks more heavily contaminated than those from South Pacific stocks. The fish stock of concern for the north European industry is s prat and herring in the Baltic Sea and he...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Vertical distribution: hybridisation barrier between escapee and wild cod?

Most farmed cod are produced in net-pens in sheltered coastal areas used as habitat by coastal cod. As future expansion of the industry is expected, interactions between farmed escapees and local coastal stock are inevitable. Genetic introgression from es capees has caused fitness depression in w...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Variation in developmental rate at early life stages of Atlantic salmon: applications for aquaculture

Normally in the production cycle, initiation of first feeding is based on the average developmental stage of the reared larva. There is, however, large variation in metabolic and developmental rate between individual fish, and early variation in metaboli c rate predicts a number of other trait c...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

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

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 - Oslove

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effect of Climate Change on Arctic High-Impact Weather Events (ArcChange)

We propose a coordinated Norwegian research project to study how meso-scale high impact weather in the arctic region of the North Atlantic will be affected by future climate change. The project aims at improving our understanding of the regional climate s ystem in the Arctic. The large scale obse...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Recruitment study on North Sea fish stocks

Recruitment to several of the ecologically and commercially important fish stocks in the North Sea has been strongly reduced during the recent years, causing concern for fishers, managers and scientists alike. This includes herring, cod, haddock, sandeel, and Norway pout. We propose an applied a...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Climate change impact on catchment-coast processes and governance in the 21st Century

The aim of the project is to launch the exchange of research information on the environmental and economic changes in the coastal zone observed in Norway and on European scale. The parties to this exchange are the research community collaborating within t he IGBP/ IHDP Land Ocean Interactions in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Påvirker avlsarbeidet for økt sjukdomsresistens forekomsten av vaksineskader, immunrespons og effekten av vaksinering ?

I de norske avlsprogrammene for laksefisk har det gjennom flere generasjoner blitt selektert for økt resistens mot infeksjonssjukdommene furunkulose og ILA og metoden, smittetest med uvaksinert presmolt, har blitt tatt i bruk for flere arter andre steder i verden. Det er vist at slik seleksjon øk...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Learning ability, cognitive capacity and welfare of farmed fish

This project will give new knowledge and basic understanding about learning ability and cognitive capacity in farmed fish and the function of their motivational systems. This knowledge has high relevance for the assessment of welfare, since only sentient (conscious) beings are considered as moral...

Awarded: NOK 0.81 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Welfare of Farmed Fish from Harvest to Killing- Meeting the Future Challenge

For salmon, cod and halibut, the fish are often live chilled prior to exsanguination with or without a stunning. From 2007 a new slaughter directive will act demanding that fish are stunned and killed unconsciously. Furthermore the welfare under CO2 suppl ement and chilling is questioned involvin...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) in Atlantic salmon: diagnosis, pathogenesis and epidemiology

Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a transmissible disease of viral aetiology affecting farmed Atlantic salmon. The disease appears to be spreading rapidly into new areas, and it is important to limit further spread. HSMI is characterized by severe inflammation in heart and red ske...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

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

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Improved production efficiency and animal welfare in aquaculture through elevated dietary tryptophan (TRP) levels

The aim of this proposal is to develop a cost effective method for using TRP supplemented feed to enhance production efficiency and welfare of fish in aquaculture. TRP, a naturally occurring amino acid and precursor of serotonin, has been shown to reduce stress responsiveness in all vertebrates. ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda