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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Herbivores in Svalbard: Monitoring Food Access in a Changing Climate (RiS-ID: 11144)

This project identifies ice and snow phenology as important determinants of seasonal vegetation access to herbivores, and centers around the question: to what degree can existing near remote sensing efforts robustly monitor herbivore food access in the high arctic during pre and early green-up? ...

Awarded: NOK 64,030

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The nature of particulate iron inputs in high Arctic fjord during the spring season

The Arctic is one of the most vulnerable regions experiencing the effects of Climate Change. Glacier melting together with permafrost thawing are predicted to increase the influx of particulate matter, together new organic and inorganic matter into the Arctic coastal ecosystem (McGuire et al., 20...

Awarded: NOK 31,754

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Depositional and structural characterization of a breccia system in northern Billefjorden, Svalbard (RiS ID: 10929)

As part of my Master thesis I plan to accomplish an event stratigraphic log, acquisition of structural data and a 3D photogrammetry survey of the breccia body in Mimerbukta in order to get a better understanding of the depositional and structural evolution of the breccia and to compare the brecci...

Awarded: NOK 27,999

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Measuring subglacial processes, RiS ID 11156

The project aims for an increased process understanding of subglacial hydrology through direct investigations in the light of recent work featuring the need for a better process understanding related to subglacial hydrology. Several glacier cave systems around Longyearbyen will be used to gain ac...

Awarded: NOK 66,200

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

SVALBARD ROCK VAULT: From vision towards reality: a pilot project for 2019-2020

The Svalbard Rockvault project is an initiative to archive and protect unique geological material acquired on Svalbard primarily through drilling activity, but also by geological sampling and geophysical acquisition campaigns. National institutions around the globe are in charge of saf...

Awarded: NOK 0.44 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Climate system couplings to shipping policy and investments in Svalbard and the High Arctic

This project catalyzes a new trans-Atlantic initiative building on existing expertise between the Ny-Ålesund Flagship Program on Atmosphere Research and projects on sea ice and shipping at Longyearbyen (UNIS), and interdisciplinary research funded through the United States National Science Founda...

Awarded: NOK 91,195

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Cooperation in remote sensing of calving glaciers, Hornsund and Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

In 2015 and 2016, as part of the SSF projects nr. 246729 (Terrestrial radar interferometry for monitoring tidewater glaciers in Ny-Ålesund and Hornsund) and nr. 257646 (the CalvingSEIS experiment), partners from Norut, Centre for Polar Studies of the University of Silesia, Polish Academy of Scien...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Kongsfjorden System Flagship Program - Creating a network for further enhancement of marine related research and monitoring in Ny-Ålesund

The Kongsfjord Flagship Program (KFP) is one of the four Ny-Ålesund flagship programs and coordinates marine research in and around Kongsfjorden and Ny-Ålesund. As marine research activities have increased lately both in scope and magnitude, and many of these activities are campaign or project ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Sustainable Svalbard Coasts

Nearshore waters are among the most productive regions in the Arctic and the coastal zone has always been the preferred ecotype for humans in the area. De-icing and continued warming will allow colonization of the intertidal zone by Arctic and boreal flora and fauna. Disappearance of coastal sea ...

Awarded: NOK 0.31 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Permafrost, Rock, Ice and Snow Monitoring in the Austre Loven glacier basin (PRISM) RIS-6815

In a global change perspective, high latitude regions happen to be an important observatory where current dynamics are observed. Studying slopes in polar environments is the main focus of the PRISM project. This project specifically aims at understanding, monitoring, and modeling the spatial dime...

Awarded: NOK 59,312

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

SOIL-WATER influence on Trace Elements and Organic Matter in River Water in Arctic (RIS-ID: 10962)

This master project has the objective to study soil-water influence on the trace elements and natural organic matter in Bayelva river in the Ny-Ålesund Svalbard. This to better understand and explain the fate of possible accumulated trace metals in the organic soil layer as well as influence of t...

Awarded: NOK 19,299

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The Richarddalen Complex: a part of the Southwestern Svalbard's Province in the northwest? (RiS ID:10910)

We are planning to collect a comprehensive suite of high-pressure lithologies for petrological and geochronological studies. The additional target will be shear zones, where detailed field observations, structural measurements and sampling of the mylonites will be performed. The multi-technique U...

Awarded: NOK 64,866

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Combining DNA metabarcoding and movement data to investigate seasonal variations in Svalbard reindeer diet

Rapid changes in the distribution and accessibility of food resources due to climate warming threatens the viability of arctic species in Svalbard ecosystem. In such conditions, the capacity to optimize feeding choice in space and time is essential for ensure survival and reproductive success. In...

Awarded: NOK 31,543

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Workshop: Geese impact on aquatic ecosystems in a warming arctic (GIWA)

The High Arctic, including the Svalbard archipelago in the North Atlantic, has been exposed to a dramatic climate change. In addition to the direct and indirect drivers of climatic change that include rising temperatures and associated changes in hydrology and nutrient flux , there is also an gro...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Effect of Microclimatic factors on Seed Production in Silene Acaulis, RiS ID 8735

This study will investigate the effect of morphology-induced microclimate on reproductive success in the cushion plant Silene acaulis in Svalbard. The study will use two different methodologies to achieve this goal: camera monitoring of flowering throughout the growth season and microsattelites t...

Awarded: NOK 18,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Integrated population modelling of a Svalbard population of snow bunting, RiS ID 10953

I aim to apply an integrated population model to data on Svalbard snow buntings to investigate if there is a relationship between breeding time and survival and fecundity. The data are collected in Adventsdalen, near Longyearbyen, Svalbard. My main data source will be mark-recapture spanning from...

Awarded: NOK 5,414

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Holocene climate history of the Femmilsjøen area, NE Spitsbergen - combining marine and terrestrial archives

The project aims to reconstruct Holocene (the past ca. 11.700 years) glacier and climate oscillations in the north-eastern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Sampling of marine and lacustrine sediment cores, mapping of seafloor/lakefloor and terrestrial areas by remote sensing will be basis for the a...

Awarded: NOK 66,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Seasonal development and community composition of sympagic meiofauna in Eastern Svalbard

This is the first project to study the seasonal development and community composition of sympagic meiofauna in the coastal zone in Eastern Svalbard. The failure in sea ice formation urge for increased knowledge of which organisms are utilizing the sea ice as habitat. Sympagic meiofauna are small ...

Awarded: NOK 59,060

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The age of metamorphism and deformation of the Müllernesset Formation of Oscar II Land

The project concerns investigations of the age of metamorphism and deformation in the Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks exposed on the western part of Oscar II Land in Svartfjellstranda and their contact with adjacent units. Two week fieldwork will be aimed at measurements of geological structure...

Awarded: NOK 51,473

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Microalgal communities in the cryosphere Controls and connectivity from glaciers to sea ice, RiS ID 10889

The aim of the project is to study the roles and controls of microalgae in the cryosphere. I will study communities on glaciers, in the fjords and in and underneath sea ice. Besides microscopy, next generation sequencing methods will be used for 18S amplicon sequencing in summer with high glacial...

Awarded: NOK 72,888

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Injectites and Sedimentary Intrusions in the Mesozoic record of Svalbard (iSIMS)

Field-based structural-stratigraphic study and lithological/petrophysical characterisation of the mesoscale sedimentary intrusions (i.e. injectites) affecting the lowermost interval of the mid-late Jurassic Agardhfjellet Formation in the southern Sassenfjorden area. The aim of this project is to ...

Awarded: NOK 43,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The Role of Sea Ice in the Production and Release of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

Unicellular algae produce VOCs in response to the environmental conditions within the brine channels of sea ice. This production is likely to be in response to the elevated salinities in these channels. Grazing pressure from zooplankton, advection of under ice water, organic matter decay (within ...

Awarded: NOK 12,573

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Precipitation measurements and snow surveys in the Pyramiden and Barentsburg areas, RiS ID 10946

The Arctic freshwater budget is driven primarily by precipitation. Accurate evaluation of precipitation is crucial for a variety of reasons, such as verification of numerical weather forecast, hydrological and climate models. Spring snow surveys and further data analysis could make possible to ob...

Awarded: NOK 11,349

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Geochemical analysis of overbank sediments in Adventdalen and Ny-Ålesund

Sampling and analysis of overbank sediments is an efficient method for regional geochemical mapping, either for environmental studies or for prospecting of mineral resources. Ottesen et al, has previously used this method at Svalbard for a regional survey of a limited number of inorganic elements...

Awarded: NOK 9,397

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Seasonal dynamics of sympagic meiofauna in a high-Arctic fjord

Sea ice plays a vital role in the Arctic ecosystem with many organisms of all sizes depending on it as a habitat, feeding, breeding and nursery ground. Brine channels that form through the ejection of salt from the freshwater lattice during the formation of sea ice, offer a unique habitat for spe...

Awarded: NOK 35,067

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

GLACIER MASS BALANCE - CENTRAL SVALBARD

The project is focused on assessment of current mass balance of Bertil and Sven glaciers - both positioned in the area of Billefjorden, central Svalbard. These glaciological measurements will be coupled with runoff measurements as an easy proxy for estimation of summer glacier ablation. Detailed ...

Awarded: NOK 40,432

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Investigation of current surge dynamics of Tunabreen; RIS ID 10913

The proposed fieldwork will be focused on surging glaciers, and specifically will take place at Tunabreen, a tidewater surge type glacier. Its behaviour has suggested a regular 35-40 year interval, between one active phase and another; thus, glaciologists were not expecting any sudden advance bef...

Awarded: NOK 45,096

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Fracture characterization of intrusions and the surrounding sedimentary rocks in Gipsdalen and Geese Island, Central Isfjorden, RiS ID 10911

This project aims at characterizing the fracture network in and around in exposed intrusions emplaced in sedimentary rocks in central Spitsbergen. The characterization of the fracture network in and around outcropping intrusions plays an important role in the assessment of the potential impact o...

Awarded: NOK 34,604

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The process of snow-ice formation and its impact on young Arctic sea ice, RiS-ID 10915

The Arctic region is experiencing a change from thick multiyear to much younger and thinner sea ice. In many places, increasing precipitation is leading to higher snow loads on young sea ice. Hence seawater can infiltrate the snow layer through pathways in the ice or from the side. Consequently p...

Awarded: NOK 44,146

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Plant functional traits across altitudinal and soil fertility gradients on Svalbard, RiS 10935

The aim of this project is to quantify and compare the relative importance of species turnover and intraspecific variation as drivers of plant community-level traits across both an altitudinal and soil fertility gradient. We will set out plots along transects varying in altitude or soil fertility...

Awarded: NOK 77,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Ukjent Fylke