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POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Russian-Norwegian field work cooperation on marine properties in Svalbard waters

Russian-Norwegian collaboration already established in a Fram Arctic Laboratory funded PhD project, will be expanded by developing joint field work in Svalbard fjords and adjacent shelf waters. The field work will focus on seawater properties (temperature , salinity, particulate matter, optics, t...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Satellite Earth Observation of the Marine Environment in the Svalbard region

Earth Observation (EO) data from polar orbiting satellites play an increasingly important role in environmental and climate sciences and for operational use. EO data in the Arctic is particular useful because the coverage from polar orbiting satellites is better at high latitudes and the fact th...

Awarded: NOK 0.71 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Geoscientific permafrost collaboration between Svalbard/Norway and Alaska

One primary research aim is to compare the modern day permafrost conditions in terms of the ground thermal state, the stock of carbon and nitrogen, the potential for greenhouse gas production, the rates of permafrost land formation in the maritime arctic in Svalbard and Norway with the continent...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Microhabitats of benthic Foraminifera in glacimarine sediments

Foraminifera are diverse and abundant marine unicellular organisms that sensitive to environmental change. Their hard shells accumulate as a fossil record and characterize past climates. Many of these minute sluggishly-moving organisms dwell within the se diment where they tend to occupy certain ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Why Is the Sea Ice Melting so Fast? Improving Understanding of Melt Processes on First-Year Arctic Sea Ice

The area of summer sea ice in the Arctic has been decreasing since satellite observations started in 1979, and the area of ice lost in summer during the last five years is far beyond what was predicted by climate models. Furthermore there has been a shift from thicker multi-year ice to thinner f...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Arctic in Rapid Transition -ART initiation workshop

We apply for funding of the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) Initiation workshop. The ART initiation workshop will develop a full science and implementation plan to fulfil the task given the ICARP II Marine Roundtable on integrating, updating and developi ng priorities for Arctic marine science f...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

ASSW - Arctic Science Summit Week 2009

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Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Exceptions can become the rule: genetic differentiation and migration history of a rare annual plant species on Svalbard.

Presence of annual plant species in the Arctic plant communities of Svalbard is an exception, and, presence of a thermophilous annual plant species is a rare exception. Predicted climate warming could make these exceptions to become the rule. Understandin g historical migration events, in particu...

Awarded: NOK 0.58 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Benthic biodiversity ? function and toxicology of selected key Arctic organisms

The proposed project is a cooperation network between the Norwegian institutes Akvaplan-niva and University Centre on Svalbard and the Russian institutes Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) and Murmansk Marine B iological Institute (MMBI). The programm...

Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

SSF - Workshop - Ny-Ålesund i april 2007

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Awarded: NOK 0.18 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Indikatorer for 2006 - Norsk polarforskning - forskning på Svalbard

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Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Geological mapping and regional geological investigations in Nordaustlandet, NE Svalbard.

The Norwegian Polar Institute and the Polar Marine Geological Research Expedition (PMGRE) in St. Petersburg, Russia, are planning a three year (2007-2009) joint geological mapping program in Nordaustlandet (NE Svalbard). Geological field work in this remo te and inaccessible area is logistically ...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian joint analysis and inter-calibration of climate observations and sensors within the IPY cluster project ARCDIV.NET

The Arctic climate is warming and its changes affect the whole physical climate system. The regional patterns of temperature, declining snow cover and increasing precipitation are modulated by natural modes of the atmospheric circulation. These are also k ey driving forces that govern arctic biot...

Awarded: NOK 0.84 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Bridge Building NERSC - SIO -WHOI

Acoustic tomography is a cost effective method for obtaining time series of unique, synoptic and horizontally averaged oceanographic depth profiles at a high temporal resolution, which can be tailored and implemented in any ocean area including deep and i ce covered oceans. Today, acoustic tomogr...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

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: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Measurements of Black Carbon aerosols in Arctic snow - interpretation of effect on snow reflectance

Snow covered surfaces have relatively high albedo and most of the incoming solar radiation is reflected. Consequently, the temporal evolution of surface albedo in the Arctic is of high relevance for the surface energy balance, melting processes and climat e. BC particles emitted by fossil fuel an...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A comparison of data from atmospheric research stations at Summit, Greenland, and Zeppelin, Svalbard

Researchers from the U.S. and Norway have recently started an informal collaboration to share re-sources used to interpret atmospheric chemistry data and exploit data together from the Summit, Greenland and Zeppelin, Svalbard stations (Sjostedt et al., 20 06; Stohl et al., 2006). SUMSVAL shall st...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Planetary Boundary Layer Feedbacks Affecting the Polar Amplification of Arctic Climate Change in Seasonal Ice Zone

Studies based on observations, climate modelling and paleo-data have revealed a strong polar amplification (PA) of climate sensitivity in the Arctic. By contrast to the mean global temperature, which has increased by less than 1 degree during the past 100 years, the mean temperature in Longyearb...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian Collaboration on Fast Ice Growth and Decay in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden (Svalbard)

We propose a combined observational and numerical study of atmosphere - sea ice - ocean interactions in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden by analyzing the processes driving the growth and decay of fast ice in this area in the seasons 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. A dditionally, we aim at fast ice scenario ...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A Pan-Arctic Network of Experts on Environmental Issues associated with Petroleum Development in the Arctic PANEP

Off-shore oil exploration and production is moving towards Arctic regions, where knowledge about the environmental impact of such activities is extremely limited. As a result, petroleum operations in the Barents Sea area, have strict environmental regulat ions, i.e. a zero discharge framework.Mos...

Awarded: NOK 54,999

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian glaciological activity on Austfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard

Russian scientists from Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGRAS), Moscow, have been involved in glaciological research in Svalbard since end of 1960ies through former Soviet projects. On Austfonna Ice cap they carried out field investig ation in mid 1970ies both with ice core d...

Awarded: NOK 0.51 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Current measurements north of Svalbard - An extension of the North Pole Environmental Observatory

The project consists of three parallell activities: technical capacity building, joint scientific studies and exchange of personell. The activies are built around the use of expendable current profiling in combination with other technologies to address ke y scientific issues. A capability for oce...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Svalbard Ice-Ocean Studies (SIOS)

The project consists of three main types of activities: - Execution of field experiments in Svalbard - Joint analysis of data from Svalbard and elsewhere - Exchange of researchers and graduate students There will be two field seasons, winter/spring 2007 and winter/spring 2008. The main experim...

Awarded: NOK 0.73 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Ice-ocean-atmosphere research in Svalbard using satellite and field data ? Promotion of Russian and Norwegian Ph.D. cooperation.

The Nansen Fellowship Program hosted by the Nansen Centers in Bergen and St. Petersburg facilitate supervision, stipend and international scientific exchange visits for young Russian Ph.D. students in the field of environmental and climate sciences. Their doctoral dissertations are completed at ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A Lagrangian study of pathways and mixing of Arctic and Atlantic waters in the Norwegian Sea. Part II: Analysis and Synthesis

Scientists at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) and at the University of Rhode Island (URI) have completed a 4 years long collaborative field project in the Nordic Seas. The circulation of the Atlantic Water (AW) and the Arctic Intermediate Water (AIW) have been studied using acoust...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian and Russian Upper Atmosphere Co-operation On Svalbard

During the Norwegian - Russian research seminar organized by the Norwegian research council and the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø 9 - 10 March 2006, group 4 with members associated to upper atmospheric research on Svalbard compiled a list of actions to be taken in order to increase the coo...

Awarded: NOK 0.76 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Role of Arctic Sea Ice-Atmosphere Processes (ROLARC)

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Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Vestland