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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Exposure of arctic seabirds to pollutants: what is the role played by individual migratory movements and non-breeding distribution?

Understanding bird contamination during this specific period is nonetheless crucial, as they can also be exposed to high pollutant levels which could affect their survival and population dynamics. Hence, the aim of my PhD is to improve our knowledge of arctic seabird contamination – mostly to Hg ...

Awarded: NOK 78,999

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Seasonal CO2 fixation in Billefjorden, chemotrophy vs phototrophy, RiS ID 10889

The aim of the project is to quantify carbon fluxes over the year using isotope labelling experiments. the focus will be on autotrophic carbon uptake via nitrification and photosynthesis. In addition, the heterotrophic carbon uptake by bacteria, arachaea, and microplankton will be measured. The m...

Awarded: NOK 72,757

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Glacial impacts on lacustrine ecology, geophysical systems and pollutant chemistry in the high Arctic. RiS ID 11159.

LEGACY aims to explore a new dimension to the dialogue around the impacts of climate change and pollutants in the Arctic. Are melting glaciers acting as sources of legacy pollutants? Do these released pollutants accumulate in Arctic lake environments? And how will climate change affect future pol...

Awarded: NOK 58,476

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The potential of soil organic carbon composition under different tundra types: A case study from Ny-Ålesund

Circulation of total organic carbon in the Arctic, including the Arctic islands, is crucial in terms of the species composition of the tundra and soil diversity. The main purpose of this study is to assess the potential of soil organic carbon composition in different tundra types. As a next study...

Awarded: NOK 64,999

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Vestland

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: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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: Svalbard

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: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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: Svalbard

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: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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: Svalbard

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: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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: Oslo

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: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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: Svalbard

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: Svalbard

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: Svalbard

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: Svalbard

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: Oslo

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: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Small-scale dynamics of Arctic coastal sediments: Isbjornhamna, Svalbard. RIS-ID 10918

This project consists of 2-months-long multidisciplinary survey of Isbjornhamna (Hornsund) coastal zone for investigation of local sediment erosion / transport / deposition processes characteristics, and also for detailed imaging of the internal structure of the bay's sediments. Main project goal...

Awarded: NOK 64,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Biofacies studies in the Botneheia Formation on Eastern Svalbard

I apply for the Artic Field Grant as a support to do field work for my master thesis. The project is a combination of sedimentology and paleontology studies on the Botneheia Formation in the Triassic age on Svalbard. There will be focus on the biofacies studies that occur in this formation in the...

Awarded: NOK 13,735

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Spatial Distributions of Black Carbon and Mineral Dust in Air and Snow Surface Layers upon Svalbard Glaciers

In this project we aim at evaluating the distribution of Black Carbon (BC) and Mineral Dust (MD) in the atmospheric boundary layer over the snow surface and in the surface snow layers over targeted Svalbard glaciers and to identify the air-snow deposition mechanisms with particular attention to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Strengthening cooperation on air pollution research in Svalbard

Air pollution research combines knowledge and methods intrinsic to atmospheric physics and chemistry. There are some examples of cooperation within the air pollution studies related to investigation of events of long-range transport of pollution to Svalbard. In contrast, there are no joint projec...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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: Svalbard

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: Akershus

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Uptake and effects of microplastics in Arctic bottom dwelling marine invertebrates

This research aims to determine and quantify uptake and effects of different types of microplastics in key sediment dwelling invertebrates inhabiting the coastal seas of Svalbard. Investigations will involve longer term experimental exposures,which simulate different scenarios. The scenatios will...

Awarded: NOK 43,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Changes of glacier facies in the Hornsund area over the last decade, RiS-ID 10917

The aim of the project is to collect in situ data necessary for validation of remote sensing analysis of glacier facies detection. Based on the results of the project and archive data of the University of Silesia - Centre for Polar Studies it will be possible to study changes of glacier facies ov...

Awarded: NOK 36,903

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo

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