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POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Arctic Ocean under Melting ice

Framstredet er den eneste dype passasjen for utveksling av vannmasser mellom Atlanterhavet og Polahavet. På den østlige siden av stredet transporterer Vestspitsbergenstrømmen varmt Atlanterhavsvann inn Arktis, på vestsiden av Framstredet fraktes sjøis og isvann fra Arktis sørover Alfred Wegner In...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Nordic Seas Eddy Exchanges

I NORSEE-prosjektet studerer vi oseanografiske prosesser relevante for de nordiske hav. I de nordiske hav foregår vannmasse-transformasjoner som påvirker den globale havsirkulasjonen. Vannmassetransformasjon involverer komplekse prosesser hvor varmt vann nært kysten blandes med kaldere vann fra b...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

Engelsk:The NORwegian nanoCELlulose Technology Platform Norsk: NORsk teknologiplattform for nanoCELlulose

Svært lovende resultater for utnyttelse av nanocellulose i helt nye anvendelser har kommet fram i NORCEL-prosjektet; økt oljeutvinning og regenerering av ødelagt vev i kroppen. Det er gjort framskritt når det gjelder bruk av nanocellulose i papir og emballasje. Nanocellulose er cellulosefibe...

Awarded: NOK 25.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

FREMONEC: Effect of climate change and related stressors on fresh and brackish water ecosystems in Svalbard

The Russian-Norwegian collaboration project FREMONEC aims to strengthen the cooperation between Norway and Russia on polar research in Svalbard. It will serve as a positive example for a network building in thematic areas relevant for both countries: impa cts of climate change, biodiversity and e...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Use of UAS data in plant ecological research in High Arctic environment

Use of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) is a new opportunity for carry out research within plant science by minimizes the environmental footprint of research activities. Unmanned aircraft, combining both fixed wing multi rotor types will allow scientist to co llect image data for vegetation analysis ...

Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Combined remote and in situ study of sea ice thickness and motion in the Fram Strait

The CORESAT project: "Combined remote and in situ study of sea ice thickness and motion in the Fram Strait" improved our understanding of the sea ice thickness and sea ice drift distribution in the Fram Strait region and around Svalbard, which have a high impact on the local Arctic and global cli...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Cultural Heritage in Polar Regions. Natural and human impact on cultural heritage sites and environments

Cultural heritage management in the Polar Regions is an increasingly challenging endeavour as management authorities face impacts from climate and environmental change as well as increasing human activity such as oil and gas extraction and tourism. The purpose of the project is to address the ...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Spatial and temporal variability in sea ice and primary production dynamics of the Arctic Ocean

Biological production starts with photosynthesis, energy from the sun captured by plants and converted to carbohydrates. In the oceans, microscopic algae make up most of this production, they are the primary producers. With the extreme seasonality of the physical environment of the Arctic, parti...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Bjerknes Compensation Mechanism: Historical perspective, geographical pattern, and Arctic multi-decadal predictability

Long runs (hundreds of years) of the global climate models and high-resolution climate proxy data sets provide an opportunity to study multi-decadal natural variability of the coupled atmospheric and oceanic circulation. The Nordic seas and the Arctic are regions were such a natural variability ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Investment under uncertainty : EU renewable energy and climate policies beyond 2020

The prospects for EU renewable energy and climate policies beyond 2020 are uncertain. Investors and policy makers in Norway and abroad need knowledge on how to make decisions under this uncertainty. Firms' decisions under uncertainty can be formulated as a real option problem in which the option ...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Exploring Education for a Changing Future

The prospects of major climate changes pose severe challenges for education. How can schools prepare students to live and act in a changing world? What competencies will future generations need and how should schools be organized in order to develop these competencies among the students? Since ...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Akershus

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Mare incognitum - ecological processes during the polar night

The primary objective of this project is to achieve a basic understanding of Arctic biodiversity and food web structure during the Arctic polar night, and how reproduction, growth, trophic interactions, and life-history traits during this nearly unstudied time contribute to functioning of Arctic...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

The European Climate Communication Officers Network (ECCO) launch conference: Gearing up for AR5

CICERO asks for 390 000 NOK in financial support to organise a capacity building conference for European climate science communication officers 22-24 May 2013 in Oslo, Norway. The conference is part of the recently established ECCO network's efforts to p repare the scientific community in Europe...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Angår klimaendringene havbruksnæringen? Utfordringer og mulige løsninger

Hovedtema for seminaret dette året er på hvilken måte klimaendringene vil påvirke havbruksnæringen, og på hvilke verktøy næringen har for å møte disse nye utfordringene. Klimaendringer er et hovedfokus i NIVAs strategi mot 2020, og temaet er også løftet f ram i NFR Havbruksprogrammet som et vikti...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

International Conference on Arctic Ocean Acidification 2013

Havet i Arktis akkumulerer raskt karbondioksid (CO2) pga endringer i karbonkretsløpet og økningen av CO2 konsentrasjoner i atmosfæren. Opptaket av CO2 medfører redusert pH i havet; havforsuring. Konferansen skal belyse flere sider ved havforsuring. Temaer som skal diskuteres er: marinkjemiske re...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Klimafilm.no - To filmer om konsekvenser av klimaendringer

I dette prosjektet har vi laget to filmer med tilhørende læringsressurser om konsekvenser av og tilpasninger til klimaendringene. Klimaendringene vil påvirke mennesker, samfunn og økosystemer i hele verden. Hvor store konsekvensene blir avhenger av hvilke n retning samfunnsutviklingen tar. Filmen...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Hydrogeological characterization of permafrost thickness variability using a variety of geophysical tools in Adventdalen, Svalbard

This project has as the main objective to obtain a data set of permafrost thickness variability which is the main control on the permeability architecture of the sedimentary aquifer in the Adventstalen, Svalbard. To this end we will use hydrogeophysical c haracterisation techniques that have not ...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Workshop to develop and explore new approaches to analysing past, present and future climate dynamics

Observed 20th century global-mean surface temperature reflects the combined influences of natural climate variations and anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, sulfate aerosols, and land-use changes. A technique used extensively by the Intergovernme ntal Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in it...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Svalbard

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Mixing Artificial Intelligence and Social Science Methods: Quantifying Stakeholder Perceptions and Vulnerabilities to Climate Change

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations are rising and, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) it is probable that this rise is responsible for the increase in global temperature over the past fifty years. Vulnerabil ity to temperature rise has different imp...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

A Better understanding of Interdisciplinary research in Climate Change

This pre-project aims to develop existing theory on research collaboration by gaining a better understanding of interdisciplinary climate change research. The project will also contribute to finding new ways of organising efficient interdisciplinary colla boration within the dynamic field of clim...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Effects of climate change on boreal lake ecosystems: Productivity and community responses

Bakgrunn, mål og hypoteser: Prosjektet ?Effects of climate change on boreal lake ecosystems: Productivity and community responses? (ECCO) ble avsluttet våren 2016. Prosjektet var motivert av de sterke endringer som skjer i ferskvann over store deler av den boreale sone: vannet blir brunere, noe...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Winter disturbance and nitrogen deposition: Unraveling the mechanisms behind ecosystem response to combined effects of climate and pollution

Nordområdene utsettes i stadig større grad for ekstremt vintervær og nitrogenforurensning. Endret vinterklima viser seg gjennom økt frekvens av sterke mildværsperioder som fører til delvis eller full snøtining over store områder. I tillegg mottar nordområdene langdistansespredt nitrogenforurensin...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Tectono-sedimentary analysis of growth faults development, Billefjorden Trough. RiS ID 6045

During a summer field season 2013 I would like to investigate the growth faults and their impact into sedimentary facies distribution in the Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard. Two case areas will be examined: (1) the Løvehovden fault in Ebbadalen and Ragnarda len and (2) Odellfjellet and Balliolbreen...

Awarded: NOK 28,415

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Svalbard

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Impact of Saharan mineral dust particles on invasiveness potential of epidemic bacterial meningitis

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Awarded: NOK 86,999

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Reconstruction of Environmental Histories Using Long-Lived Bivalve Shells in the Norwegian Arctic (RELIC)

Analysis of accreted calcium carbonate parts of marine animals has proven useful as a tool in reconstruction of marine environmental histories. In particular, the shells of long-lived bivalve molluscs have provided insight into recent and prehistoric clim atic conditions of tropical and temperate...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Plant biomass studies in the Arctic (ArcticBiomass)

The main purpose is to establish a joint American-Norwegian research team dealing with research on the combination of field and satellite remote sensing based above-ground plant biomass, vegetation productivity and growing season mapping in northern Alask a and in Svalbard, as well as on a circum...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

International Workshop on Antarctic Ice Rises

We propose holding a workshop between August 26th and 29th, 2013, in Tromsø. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) endorsed this workshop and provided funding of 10k USD. Co-sponsorship is confirmed from WCRP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project and the Association of Polar Earl...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Arctic Observing Summit 2013

The Arctic Observing Summit 2013 (AOS) is the first in a planned series of high-level, biennial international meetings that aims to provide science-based guidance for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of arctic enviro...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Rebound effects in Chinese Electricity Sector

In China, energy efficiency improvement has been raised as the prominent means for achieving a viable and durable transition to a low carbon and sustainable society. However, the phenomenon of the rebound effect poses a serious threat to the goal of reduc ing energy use by enhancing energy effici...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

From values to action: supporting Norwegians to act on their pro-environmental values through participatory workshops

It is imperative that Norwegians begin to transform their practices in ways that reduce their carbon emissions and thus mitigate against climate change. This project will enage a cross-disciplinary team of researchers in an effort to examine value-practic e interactions and to develop a methodolo...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo