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POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Microhabitats of benthic Foraminifera in glacimarine sediments

Foraminifera are diverse and abundant marine unicellular organisms that sensitive to environmental change. Their hard shells accumulate as a fossil record and characterize past climates. Many of these minute sluggishly-moving organisms dwell within the se diment where they tend to occupy certain ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Coordination and integration of Norwegian and Russian marine research activities on Svalbard (CoNoR)

In close cooperation with Svalbard Science Forum (SSF), we propose to organize two series of symposia, one in Svalbard and one in St Petersburg to promote, coordinate and integrate planned and ongoing Norwegian and Russian research activities on Svalbard in selected research fields. We focus on ...

Awarded: NOK 0.79 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Large developing economies: current and potential future contributions to climate change

The main focus of this project is to improve the knowledge basis for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenarios for China and India by considering a wider set of emissions and by studying the impact of the development process and policies of China and India on global warming. A core issue in glob...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate impacts of short-lived pollutants in the polar regions (CLIMSLIP)

Prosjektsammendrag: NILU will coordinate the Joint Research Project. This task will include organizing meetings, ensuring information flow between work packages and project partners, and leading the reporting. NILU will also set up a webpage that will se rve to communicate results both inside th...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Akershus

NETT-Stimulerings-/nettverksbygging

Sluttfinansiering av DVD-utgivelsen av Roald Amundsens Sydpolfilm

I forbindelse med hundreårsjubileet for erobringen av Sydpolen 14.12.1911 blir Amundsens polfilm utgitt på DVD av Norsk filminstitutt i samarbeid med Nasjonalbiblioteket og Høgskolen på Lillehammer. Filmen fra Roald Amundsens sydpolekspedisjon 1910-1912 foreligger nå i fire nyrestaurerte versjo...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Innlandet

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

5th Internationale Conference on Plant and Microbe Adaptions to Cold (PMAC 2009) 4.12.2009 - 8.12.2009.

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

DIP-Design Pilot

A MOBILITY CONCEPT FOR CAR SHARING -DP093

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Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Engelsk/internasjonal versjonering av film-dokumentaren "The Arctic Eye"

Eg har i tre år arbeidd med ein film/TV-dokumentar frå Ny Ålesund på Svalbard.(Sjå vedlegg) Dokumentaren"The Arctic Eye" har m.a. fått støtte frå IPY-satsinga i Forskingsrådet og han går som spesialutgåve (54 min) i Schrødingers Katt torsdag 3. desember. I den versjonen ser ein særleg på samanhe...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Arctic Frontiers

Arctic Frontiers (AFT) har etablert seg som den største, årlige internasjonale konferansen om Arktis. Denne plattformen utgjør en debattarena for sentrale miljø- og samfunnsmessige problemstillinger i nord. Konferansen skal også være internasjonalt møtepl ass og arena for formidling for forskere ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

BIOKLIMA National Infrastructure for Studying Climate Effects in Natural and Agro-ecosystems

The BIOKLIMA pre-proposal aims to design a national facility enabling integration of a wide range of science disciplines to address the challenges posed by the expected climate change. Disiplines included are plant biology, agronomy, plant pathology, m icrobiology, molecular biology, soil scie...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Akershus

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Pre-project for Cable-based Ocean Observatory

Seven of Norway's leading scientific institutions, comprising the network NOON, have joined forces with the aim of establishing a world class research observatory. To be able to meet the challenges for frontier research there is a need for new infrastru cture permitting multidisciplinary, simul...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

CIEAR - Centre for Integrated Environmental Analytical Research

CIENS with its partner institutes NIVA (Norwegian Institute for Water Research), NILU (Norwegian Institute for Air Research) and the UiO (University of Oslo), along with STAMI (The National Institute of Occupational Health) and FHI (The Norwegian Institut e of Public Health) apply for a 2 MNOK pr...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

NETT-Stimulerings-/nettverksbygging

Konferansen "Forskning i friluft 2009"

Konferansen bidrar blant annet til økt fokus på friluftslivsforskning og gir muligheter for å presentere forskningsressultater innenfor dette felt for et bredere forum. Konferansen er også et viktig møtested for forskerne og andre som har interesse og beh ov for kunnskap om friluftsliv.

Awarded: NOK 40,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Arctic in Rapid Transition -ART initiation workshop

We apply for funding of the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) Initiation workshop. The ART initiation workshop will develop a full science and implementation plan to fulfil the task given the ICARP II Marine Roundtable on integrating, updating and developi ng priorities for Arctic marine science f...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Ocean acidification research cooperation between Norway and USA

The project forms a continuation of a process aimed at developing coordinated scientific research projects between institutes responsible for advice on protection of the marine environment to the governments in Norway and USA. Institute of Marine Research and four institutes of the National Ocea...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

National Surface and Interface Characterisation Laboratory

Surfaces and interfaces are essential parts of all functional materials, determining their physical and chemical properties to a large extent. Knowledge about structure-composition-function relationships is the most important navigation tool in the develo pment of next generation materials within...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Advancing Modelling and Observing solar Radiation of Arctic sea-ice -- understanding changes and processes

This project is designed to (i) improve the quantification of the surface energy balance of the ice covered Arctic Ocean, and (ii) increase the understanding of mechanisms leading to observed changes. The project will combine autonomous observations from drifting buoys, manned in-situ observatio...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Gravity-wave sources and scales in the Polar Regions and their effect on Polar Mesospheric Clouds

Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) are tenuous ice clouds forming in the polar regions near 81 km during the summer months in conditions resulting from the dynamic wave forcing of this region. PMC are at the limits of their existence, and changes in their den sity or occurrence rate have been cited a...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Mechanisms of the air-surface exchange of organic pollutants and mercury in a Chinese subtropical forest

Project summary The overall aim of the project is to develop tools and conceptual frameworks to evaluate the mechanisms controlling the inter-compartment exchange of long range transported semivolatile persistent pollutants (SVPPs) in a forest soil system , in order to provide elements to link po...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Green Oslo: History, Trajectory and Prospects

It is our contention that Oslo has a long history of being a 'green city' in the sense both of having a strong self-awareness of the city in its wider geographic setting and a long tradition of conservation of natural resources and green spaces. We also b elieve that the specific character of pla...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Utenlandsstipend for prosjektet: Constraining total feedback of the climate system by observations and models

Det søkes om støtte for et 3 måneders opphold i Reading, England for PhD student Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie. Der vil hun arbeide sammen med Keith Shine og hans gruppe. I Reading skal PhD student Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie arbeide med usikkerhet i parametre i energibalansemodellen og med usikkerhet ...

Awarded: NOK 37,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Gjesteforsker Insuring Future Climate Change

Peter Guttorp is professor in statistics at the University of Washington. He is a very recognized within modeling of climate. He has been active in IPCC work and is listed among the 21 statistician participating in IPCC. NR has made an agreement with Gutt orp that he will visit NR in 4-6 weeks pe...

Awarded: NOK 91,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Oslo

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Real time climate observations at the position of weather ship Mike

The weather ship Polarfront which is located in the Norwegian Sea at 66°N, 2°E is being removed from its position 1 January 2010. The weather ship represents a variety of time series some of which started in 1948 covering ocean profiles from the deep ocea n (> 2000m) to the surface using CTD meas...

Awarded: NOK 12.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Developing a national strategy for ICOS; the Integrated Carbon Observation System

Present and future greenhouse gas (GHG) balances of terrestrial ecosystems are at the core of scientific and political issues, as increases in terrestrial CO2 and CH4 emissions will accelerate Global Warming. A new large scale European infrastructure is d evoted to this issue: the International C...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

SHP-Strategiske høgskoleprogram

Wildfire effects on biogeochemistry of soil and surface water

Knowledge on aquatic effects of wildfire is important, because little data exist and increased frequency of wildfire is expected as a consequence of climate change. Pyrowater will focusing on major chemical and biological effects of wildfire in aquatic ec osystems. 3 catchment affected by wildfir...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Telemark

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

European Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Laboratory Infrastructure

The project aims at bringing ECCSEL forward to the EU-funded preparatory phase. The main goal of the project is to compose a successful application for funding through the EU FP7 Capacities program. The most important task is therefore to write the propos al for funding, which includes arranging ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

International conference Planetary Boundary Layer and Climate Change

Our knowledge of the Earths Climate System and its evolution is still imperfect. One of the most prominent uncertainties in the ongoing transient climate change is related to poor understanding and hence incorrect modelling of the physics and dynamics of turbulent processes in the lowermost laye...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

From Climate Knowledge to Local Adaptation - How can we strengthen the adaptation capacity of local government?

This project aims at developing new knowledge and measures relevant for strengthening local government capacity for adaptation to climate change. This will be analysed in a multi level and cross-sector context aiming at understanding how adaptation strate gies to climate change can be co-ordinate...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Long range Transport of black carbon and the effect on Snow albedo in north-east China and in the Arctic

Black carbon (BC) atmospheric particles originate from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel and biomass. These particles are black due to their strong absorption of solar radiation. Via long range transport, BC particles reach the Arctic and deposit i n the snow where even relatively small am...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

N2O emissions from N saturated subtropical forest in South China

Surplus of reactive nitrogen (Nr) is one of China's most pressing environmental problems, and may cause a positive feedback to climate change through increased N2O emission. We previously found that forests in sub-tropical China receiving high atmogenic N loads (> 4g N m-2 yr-1) differ in their ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Akershus

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