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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: Ukjent Fylke

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Does ovarian fluid favour MHC-dissimilar sperm?

When males provide nothing but genes, female choice of mates is expected to favour individuals that can best increase offspring survival. This selection process may not only occur at an individual level, but also on the gamete level. Recent studies have i ndicated that the ova may select sperm on...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Life history patterns in large carnivores and their application for management and conservation.

Life-history is an organism's pattern of growth, reproduction and mortality, formed by long-term evolutionary processes and by immediate responses to the environment. This project has 3 main objectives: 1) evaluate the patterns of lifetime reproductive su ccess of male and female brown bears; 2) ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Diet and Reproductive Output in Arctic Molluscs: the Importance of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton (DREAM)

Algae that are associated with the arctic sea ice (ice algae) can constitute a significant fraction of total primary production, and play a fundamental role in polar ecosystems. The recently documented reduction of ice coverage may result in a significant shift in the relative contributions of i...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Causes and consequences of a large-scale shift from sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) to ephemeral algae and implications for management

The SACCHARINA project is based on the dramatic decline in the sugar kelp forest along the coast of Southern Norway. The sugar kelp normally dominates the sea-bed at 2 to 15 m depth in sheltered coastal areas of the Norwegian coast. Surveys have found tha t the sugar kelp forests have disappeared...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

SYMPOSIUM ON ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS IN THE NORWEGIAN SEA AND BARENTS SEA (ECONORTH)

Sub-Arctic seas support extraordinarily rich marine resources, which provide food and wealth to local communities. These seas include: the Okhotsk Sea, Oyashio shelf region, Bering Sea, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland/Labrador shelves, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gree nland shelves. The Norwegian Sea and Ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - Comparison of Marine Ecosystems of NORWAY and the US (MENU)

The ecosystem approach to fisheries requires a basic understanding of the important processes controlling marine ecosystem productivity. A necessary first step toward understanding any ecosystem is to determine its community structure and function and the ir variability. As part of the Norway-US ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate effects on planktonic food quality and trophic transfer in Arctic marginal ice zones (MIZ)

This project will investigate how increased light intensities, due to reduced ice concentrations and ice extent, affect timing, quantity and quality of primary and secondary production in the Arctic marginal ice zone (MIZ). The MIZ is the key productive a rea of Arctic shelf seas. The ongoing war...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Climate change impact on catchment-coast processes and governance in the 21st Century

The aim of the project is to launch the exchange of research information on the environmental and economic changes in the coastal zone observed in Norway and on European scale. The parties to this exchange are the research community collaborating within t he IGBP/ IHDP Land Ocean Interactions in ...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Interactions between eutrophication, oil and contaminants in marine ecosystems

Although there is much knowledge about environmental processes associated with environmental pressures such as eutrophication, oil and contaminants, there is limited understanding of how such pressures interact in their effects in marine ecosystems. This project aims to clarify interactions betwe...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effects on Population Dynamical Key-Processes of a Changing Climate in Arctic Ecosystems

The present project aims at understanding and predicting how variations and changes in climate can affect key-processes that operate both on population dynamical and ecosystem level. More specifically, we will use long-term monitoring data on population d ynamics and population specific demograph...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Metabolic scaling in teleosts

Metabolic scaling is a widely recognised problem in biology. The underlying causes for the disproportionate relationship between the metabolic rate of an organism and its body size have long puzzled scientists, and continue to be controversial. In recent years this fascinating subject has been tr...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORUREN. Mercury and POPs in the vertically migrating Mysis relicta in Lake Mjøsa: quantifying the uptake from sediments and prey

The project will focus on the role of an invertebrate omnivore Mysis relicta in mercury and POPs bioaccumulation in Lake Mjøsa. Mysis is in the lake a key species linking by its vertical migration behavior benthic and pelagic food webs and likely transpor ting environmental pollutants from sedime...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Recruitment study on North Sea fish stocks

Recruitment to several of the ecologically and commercially important fish stocks in the North Sea has been strongly reduced during the recent years, causing concern for fishers, managers and scientists alike. This includes herring, cod, haddock, sandeel, and Norway pout. We propose an applied a...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Integration of biomonitoring with risk assessment by construction of biomarker bridges for water column organisms exposed to produced water

In the on-going PROOF project "Validation of methods and data for environmental risk assessment offshore" a theoretical framework for integration of biomonitoring into environmental risk assessment procedures was developed. Experimental data were obtained and used to demonstrate that the establi...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Commercial mid-water trawling for cod, haddock and saithe: Shifting effort to reduce impact on bottom fauna of bottom trawling(FHFinn182490)

Concerns have been raised about the impact of bottom trawling on the benthic community. In Norway, considerable damage to deep-water coral reefs by trawlers have led to the closure of areas and initiated mapping of larger bottom areas of the Barents Sea. In this project we will explore the implic...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Expected Change in Fisheries in the Barents Sea

Project summary The project focuses on how changes in climate, i.e. increase in temperature, will influence fish stocks and their commercial stakeholders. Changes in fish distribution will not only affect the fisheries directly through changes in possibl e fishing areas, and changes in yield bec...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

5 - Antibiotics from the sea - isolation and characterization of novel compounds from cold-water benthic organisms(fortsetter som 184688)

The modern society relies on a continuous development of new drugs, either to replace older and less efficient drugs, or even more important, to address clinical needs that are unmet today. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in common hu man pathogenic bacteria has fuelled the n...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Linking physics and biology - Structuring of cod-populations in the North Sea/Skagerrak water-system

We propose to study the physical and biological mechanisms that generate and maintain a highly genetically structured population of cod in the Skagerrak water system. We hypothesize that a combination of oceanographic features (i.e., within fjords water c irculation), spawning behavior (i.e. stro...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Cascading effects of climate change and UV envirotoxins on the nutritional quality of the food base in marine ecosystems

With the current focus on ecosystem-based approaches to the management of marine resources establishing the effects of various environmental variables on the flow of energy through marine ecosystems is essential, and strongly prioritized. The research pro posed here uses two variables (temperatur...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Harvesting zooplankton by bubble flotation

The current proposal outlines a new approach and technology to harvest copepods in the ocean. The project aims to test and build the prototype of a platform for practical use, which is designed to harvest copepods in the size groups where the economically important groups in Norwegian waters are...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Norway-USA, Catch Sampling and Estimation

This project is mainly related to fishery dependent sampling and catch and bycatch (or discard) estimation. Use of observers for sampling at sea varies among regions. The US Alaska Fisheries Science Centre (AFSC) has an extensive observer program collecti ng catch, discard, and biological data fo...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Adding product value to sustainable fisheries

The purpose of this project is to develop knowledge that can contribute to adding value to marine resources, to improve shortcomings in existing management regimes and to further develop theories on harvesting strategies that impact on adding value to mar ine resources. To face challenges in add...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

An essential comprehensive revision and expansion of the Norwegian edition of "Dyreliv i havet".

"Dyreliv I havet" was published for the first time in 1999, and it meets an important need in a wide range of courses in marine biology. The strength of the book lies first and foremost in the combination of an extremely rich pictorial content (around 120 0 high-quality underwater photos) and fir...

Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

TU-Tungt utstyr

Marinlaboratorium i Ny-Ålesund

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Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

New Fish in a New Environment: Challenges to a Comprehensive Management of Fish, Environments and Human Beings

The research project involves a doctorate project which seeks to investigate how the new issues of fish welfare and environmentally contaminated fish are shaped, managed and integrated with established practices in the public administration of fish. The s tarting point for the investigation is th...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Spatiotemporal dynamics of introduced bark beetles: resource competition, invasion risk and management

The movement and establishment of invasive species in new habitats is a global economic and ecological problem. The increased trade among countries and continents has increased the chances of introductions of new species. Once alien pest species have beco me established in their new habitats, the...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-NABO-Nettverksprogram Norden-Næromr

Maria Kahlert. SE32, Nabo 2006-07

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Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-NABO-Nettverksprogram Norden-Næromr

Kurt Pettersson, SE43, Nabo 2006-07

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Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke