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MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

COEXIST - Condition and energy expenditure estimates from free-ranging marine mammals

Recent development and miniaturization of instruments that can be attached to marine mammals to collect and transmit information about their movements and diving ability has revolutionized our understanding of these important top predators in marine ecosystems. Together with estimates of their po...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Ion Torrent metagenetic analysis of mussel-associated plankton diversity

Ecological models such as Dynamic Energy Budget growth models (DEB) proposed for blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) need to consider the effect of feeding and growth. Feeding is a complex process that includes regulation of filtration, as well as selection of p hytoplankton. However, although studies o...

Awarded: NOK 75,999

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Cost-effective observation methodology to assess seal population sizes using unmanned aerial vehicle and automatic image analysis

This project aims to explore the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operated from a vessel to perform aerial photo surveys of seal whelping patches. An additional goal is to develop corresponding methods to improve population assessments of harbour and grey seals (coastal seals). A second mai...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Norway and the United States: Climate Change and Marine Ecosystems (NUCCME)

Norway and the US have been collaborating over the last decade on research of major issues on marine ecosystems. In May 2014, they will hold an international scientific workshop, this time to tackle the effects of human-induced climate change on the ocean s due to increa sing greenhouse gases. Of...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Causes and consequences of high loads of biomagnifying pollutants in avian top predators in the Arctic

Although the Arctic Sea is remote and considered pristine, paradoxically the marine food chain is highly loaded by persistent environmental contaminants. Such pollutants bio-magnify in food chains and arctic seabirds often suffer from high concentrations. The research on environmental contaminan...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Ecosystem-Economic Interactions in the Norwegian Sea: Analysis and Management

The Norwegian Sea ecosystem is productive and dynamic, and harbors some of the world's largest pelagic stocks. In the larger region, important stocks like Northeast Arctic cod are present. The stocks overlap geographically and seasonally and interact through competition for food, in predator-prey...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Seasonal variation in sensitivity of krill to oil

As the present oil and gas activities increase in the high north, so do the potential impacts of produced water and associated oil pollution on marine organisms. Krill are key organisms in temperate and Arctic ecosystems, and constitute an important link in marine food webs. Therefore, it is of v...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Rogaland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Next-generation biodiversity assessment and environmental monitoring of benthic communities using high-throughput DNA metabarcoding

Marine sediments constitute the largest single ecosystem on earth and their communities of benthic organisms significantly influence major ecological processes. Current marine management policies are strictly based on the maintenance of biological diversity, but our knowledge of marine benthos is...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Styrking av tverrfaglig klimarelatert marin forskning i Norge

StyrkeNor activities have been arranged to strengthen interdisciplinary climate-related marine research connected to our EU project "Ocean Food-web Patrol - Climate Effects: Reducing Targeted uncertainties with an Interactive Network" OCEAN-CERTAIN which has been coordinated by NTNU. The marin...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Assessment of long-term effects of oil exposure on early life stages of Atlantic haddock using state-of-the-art genomics tools in combinatio

In this project we aim at generating experimental data to assess the chronic toxicity during early life stages as well as evaluating the long-term effects of oil pollution in Atlantic haddock - using state-of-the-art genomics tools in combination with fitness observations. It is important to id...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Effects of changes in discharges, climate and other factors on coastal contaminants and their biological consequences (COCO)

The fate of environmental contaminants, from pollution source via different environmental influences to accumulation and possible effects in organisms is complex: strong reductions in discharges of a contaminant are not always followed by reduced concentrations in the environment or in organisms....

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Kongsfjorden Ecosystem-new views after more than a decade of research: Workshop-2, March 2014

The Kongsfjorden Ecosystem Workshop 2014 will be held at Hamn i Senja, Norway, from 10-17 March. It will gather 70 national and international participants, from 11 countries, with research interests and data from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. The results of the workshop will be published in the form o...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Johan Hjort Symposium on Recruitment Dynamics and Stock Variability, 7-9 October 2014, Bergen

In 2014 it will be100 years since Johan Hjort wrote his seminal book 'Fluctuations in the Great Fisheries of Northern Europe'. The importance of this book cannot be overstated, in particular Hjort's new conceptual ideas about the formation of strong year. Hjort is widely considered to be the fat...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

How do a dominant predator and climate shape fish biodiversity over space and time in large marine ecosystems?

Summary: Over-exploitation and collapse of top predators in marine ecosystems are well recognized, but its impact on biodiversity at the ecosystem level is only poorly understood. On the Scotian Shelf in the Northwest Atlantic the cod population has been dramatically reduced, with a collapse on ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Effects of diflubenzuron on Northern shrimps (Pandalus borealis) at ambient and future climate conditions

Increasing use of the chitin synthesis inhibitor diflubenzuron (DFB) as anti-parasitic drug in salmon aquaculture has raised concerns over its impact on marine ecosystems. We have exposed Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) to DFB medicated feed under current (C: 7.0°C, pH 8.0) and future global ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Rogaland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Genetic variability in population responses of Atlantic cod to environmental change

Prosjektet er godt i rute og fremdriften er i henhold til opprinnelig plan. I 2014 and 2015 fikk villfanget torsk fra tre bestander (lokaliteter) gyte uforstyrret ved Havforskningsinstituttets fasiliteter i Flødevigen nær Arendal. Der den ene gruppen med torsk ble hentet innenfjords nær Risør ved...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Oslo

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Vulnerable habitats and species in petroleum resource management: impact of sediment exposure on Arctic sponge grounds

Petroleumsvirksomheten har under de siste årene vært på vei nordover i Barentshavet og potensielt in i områder i Arktis som tidligere vært dekket av is. Barentshavet er kjent for sine store svampområder. Disse har nylig har blitt klassifisert som sårbare habitater av UNEP. Intensifiert petroleums...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

A dynamic energy budget approach to understand and predict potential long-term effects of produced water on copepods in the Barents Sea

The ENERGYBAR project addressed the potential for effects of produced water (PW) on the dominating zooplankton species in the Barents Sea; the copepod Calanus finmarchicus. This species may in some areas reach densities of more than 3000 individuals per cubic meter of seawater. In order to make a...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Non-commercial values attached to marine resources in the coastal zone

The background of the Project is the increassing pressure on the Coastal zone from comemrcial activities in the Northernmost part of Norway (Northern Norway). According to municipal and county plans, several types of industries aim for expansion in this area, of which marine aquaculture and marin...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Invasive seaweeds in rising temperatures: impacts and risk assessments

Europe is a hot-spot for aquatic introductions with around 600 alien species recorded at present. Introduction of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) is regarded a serious threat to European biodiversity and ecosystems. Introduced seaweeds represent one of the largest groups of marine aliens in Europe, ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Modelling Fishery Landings Locations and Product Forms

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Rogaland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

SEAMAN Spatially resolved Ecosystem Models and their Application to Marine Management

The sustainable use of the marine ecosystems set out for example in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) requires improved knowledge about the processes impacting the environment. Spatially explicit ecosyste m models are getting increasingly importa...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

STAGES-MARINEFRAME - Science and technology advancing governance of good environmental status

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive is designed to deliver Good Environmental Status? (GES) in EU marine waters by 2020. This Directive requires that Member States (MS) with marine territories put in place measures to achieve and maintain GES within a defined timeframe and according to eleve...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Risk, Endogenous Preferences, and Investment Behavior in Norwegian Fisheries

The project centers on risk, endogenous preferences, and investment behavior in Norwegian fisheries. We combine sociology, economics, and biology in an innovative way to obtain a more holistic view of a problem that is crucial for successful and sustainab le management of marine resources: What d...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Micro- and nanoplastic impacts on the marine environment (MIME)

Plastics and microplastics pollute the marine environment and as the field of microplastic research eveolves more data are available on their levels in the environment. On a global scale for both urban and pristine areas, it is now evident that microplastics are in the water phase, in and on sedi...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Oslo

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Fjord to ocean connections

The fundamental difficulty with modeling exchange of water masses between fjords and the open ocean is the wide range of physical scales involved. Coastal topography is often complex, particularly along the coast of Norway with fjords connected to the open ocean via narrow straits requiring very ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Overseas Research Grant for Dr. Sturla Kvamsdal to visit Dept. of Agr. and Res. Econ. at UC Berkeley

Below follows a summary of the 'Havet og Kysten' project Bioeconomic Multispecies Analysis of Marine Ecosystems. Next follow a short exposition of the main topics which will be under research at UC Berkeley. Our investigation will focus on strategies for optimal and simultaneous decisions conce...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Tracing phytoplankton grazed by mussels using molecular methods to identify preys and improve modelling

Advances in ecological modelling have motivated the development of operational models to support management of environment and resources. Still, many key processes in ecological models are poorly represented and resolved; either because we do not understand the mechanisms or because we are not ab...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Impact of ocean acidification on arctic zooplankton populations

About one third of emitted CO2 is absorbed into the world´s oceans, and the elevated partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) is now changing the pH of the oceans. This so-called "ocean acidification" (OA) may disturb affected marine populations in ways we cannot y et predict. In this respect, the Arctic c...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Innovative tools and integrated assessment of good environmental status - support for work package leadership within FP7 project DEVOTES

Monitoring of marine biodiversity has long been carried out on a local, and national scale. Recently the European Water Framework directive has drawn together some aspects of monitoring, and this has been implemented across Europe. The recently adopted Ma rine Strategy Framework Directive goes a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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