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IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar bear circumpolar health assessment in relation to toxicants and climate changing.

Anthropogenic pollution and climate change are the two most significant threats for arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Because of food chain biomagnification of lipophilic persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the polar bear is one of the spec ies which have the highest levels of thes...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian-US Antarctic IPY Traverse (TASTE-IDEA)

The objectives will be accomplished through a coordinated program of field observations, remote sensing, and modeling. The core of the work is two overland traverses in Dronning Maud Land (DML), East Antarctica: 1) from Norwegian Troll Station (72º 0? S, 2º 32? E) to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Sta...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY proposal under the ArcticWOLVES initiative ID No: 672

Strongly cyclic interaction between plants, herbivores and predators typically drives the food web dynamics over large tracts of the arctic tundra biome. These interaction cycles, however, now appear to be fading out at the southern edge of tundra, possib ly due to climate warming. The Arctic Cli...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport - Norway

To address the above objectives, POLARCAT will carry out four major (and a few smaller) co-ordinated measurement campaigns in the Arctic. These will involve about 12 different aircraft (some involved in more than one mission), a ship, and all the major Ar ctic surface stations, for which long-ter...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Permafrost Observatory Project: A Contribution to the Thermal State of Permafrost in Norway and Svalbard

The key goal of TSP NORWAY will be to develop a spatially distributed set of observations on present status of permafrost temperatures, active layer thicknesses and periglacial activity in Svalbard and Norway. Two new boreholes will be drilled and equippe d giving new information on permafrost te...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Svalbard

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian component of the Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Regions

The main goal of NESSAR is to quantify the impact of climate variability on the structure and function of marine ecosystems in the Nordic and Barents seas. This interdisciplinary program will mount intensive field studies of the physical and biological p rocesses at the Arctic Front in the Baren...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole

Marine Mammal Exploration of the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) will deploy state-of-the-art animal-borne CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) tags on strategically chosen, deep-diving marine mammal species to explore their current movement patterns, behaviou r and habitat utilization in Polar Region...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

PPS Arctic Norway - the Norwegian contribution to the internationally endorsed IPY project #151; PPS Arctic

The PPS Arctic Norway project is the Norwegian contribution to the circumpolar IPY core project PPS Arctic (Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resource components a long and across the Arctic delimitation z...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Monitoring of Development in Traditional Indigenous Lands of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Northwestern Russia

Urfolkenes tradisjonelle landområder i Nenets autonome område opplever alvorlige miljøpåvirkninger gjennom moderne industriell utvikling. Tundra og reinbeite ødelegges eller forurenses i stor skala. Urfolkenes (nenetsernes og izhma-komiernes) tradisjonell e næringer og kulturelle overlevelse er t...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Impacts of Oil and Gas Activity on Peoples in the Arctic Using a Multiple Securities Perspective

GAPS Is a truly multidisciplinary project, where social AND natural scientists work together to provide a comphrehensive understanding of security in the Arctic. GAPS contains a series of related and integrated sub-projects that address security in the Ar ctic from different angles. Each sub-pro...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Natural Climate and Environmental Changes and Human Adaptation: From Science to Public awareness

SciencePub aims to answer two critical questions in current Arctic climate research: What characterizes natural climate change in the Arctic, and how did early pioneer immigrants relate to climate change? By studying natural climate archives in terrestria l and marine sediments from Svalbard, N N...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

CAVIAR - Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions: Focus on northern Norway and northern Russia

The Arctic is experiencing rapid changes in environmental, societal and economic conditions. The particular conditions to which communities are sensitive are not well documented, nor have the conditions that might facilitate or constrain the adaptive capa city in the face of interacting climate a...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Contaminants in Polar Regions -Dynamic range of contaminants in polar marine ecosystems

This project is a part of the multinational IPY initiative "Fate, uptake and effects of contaminants in the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystem" (short name COPOL). The overall aim of this initiative is to improve the knowledge of the dynamic range of man-made contaminants in marine ecosystems of Pol...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming: A Norwegian contribution to the IPY-37 GLACIODYN

This project is a Norwegian contribution to IPY Activity 37 Glaciodyn. The goal is to investigate the role of ice dynamics in the response of Arctic glaciers and ice caps to global warming, to improve prediction of future changes and their impact on fresh water fluxes to the ocean and thus global...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

In BIAC the mechanisms, manifestation and impact of intermediate and bottom water formation originating from the bipolar Atlantic Ocean shelves will be explored. The overall goal is to evaluate the global ventilation through circum Arctic and Antarctic sh elves and consequences for the climate by...

Awarded: NOK 32.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Outreach and communication: Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network study: Reindeer Pastoralism in a Changing Climate

EALÁT OUTREACH focuses on understanding adaptive capacity of reindeer pastorlism to climate variability and change in the Arctic. Nomadic reindeer herding practices, ancient in origin, represents models of sustainable exploitation and management of northe rn terrestrial ecosystems that is based o...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

IPY-ICESTAR: Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research

This is a joint proposal from the Norwegian participants in the ICESTAR/IHY-program. It is an integrated part of the international ICESTAR program and will take full advantage of the ICESTAR Virtual Data Port, which will make data available from a large g round based network covering the northern...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Ice Age development and human settlement in Northern Eurasia (ICEHUS II)

The project studies the Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Barents-Kara sea region and the ice age human occupation in northern Russia. We propose to carry out a lake coring programme in the Russian Arctic. The European Science Foundations progr amme QUEEN (Quaternary Environment of the...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Long-term Sea Level Variability in the Nordic Seas

Many forces in the atmosphere and ocean influence the sea level. Thus the sea level integrates a great number of physical processes in the environment and therefore can be a representative parameter for monitoring of climatic changes. There are more than 30 tide-gauge stations in the Barents, Nor...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Dynamic Continental Margin Between the Mid-Atlantic-Ridge System (Mohns Ridge, Knipovich Ridge) and the Bear Island Region

A concentrated active and passive seismological experiment along the continental margin of the Barents Sea near Bear Island and the mid-Atlantic along the Knipovich Ridge is proposed. We will study the Earth´s structure and dynamics at this margin from it s top sedimentary cover to its imprint in...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

EALÁT-RESEARCH: Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study: Reindeer pastoralism in a changing climate.

IPY EALÁT-RESEARCH focuses through research on understanding adaptive capacity of reindeer pastoralism to climate variability and change in Russia and Norway. IPY EALÁT Reindeer herding and climate change has received full endorsement from IPY Joint commi tty (number 399) and is a core project fo...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DOC turnover in polar microbial food webs.

Microbial communities, including phytoplankton, protozoa, bacteria, archaea, fungi and virus, are by far the most abundant and the most taxonomic and genetically diverse group of organisms in marine pelagic ecosystems. Biological activity, biomass, produc tion and remineralization in these system...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Paleoceanagraphic and climatic variability on decadal to millennial timescales across the Drake Passage

Paleodrake requests support to recover cores at marine sites in order to portray the decadal-millennial scale climate and ocean variability in the Drake Passage region of Antarctica through the Holocene and the last glacial period. These records will ult imately provide the quantitative reconstr...

Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

iAOOS-Norway: Closing the loop

iAOOS-Norway: Closing the loop is a contribution to an integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System, iAOOS. It builds on, and supplements, other ongoing components of iAOOS such as NABOS and DAMOCLES. iAOOS-Norway will contribute a share to iAOOS through buil ding on pieces of an ocean-atmosphere-cry...

Awarded: NOK 33.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Det internasjonale polaråret 2007 - 2008 (IPY) - satsing mot skoleverket

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Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

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