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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Holocene history of Svalbard ice caps and glaciers RiS ID 10122

The project aims to reconstruct Holocene (i.e. last 11.700 years) ice cap and glacier variations on Svalbard, using threshold lake sediment records. Threshold lake sediment cores are excellent for this because they contain glacial on/off signals (changes between organic and minerogennic sediments...

Awarded: NOK 68,218

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

From dark to light - development of Phaeocystis pouchetii spring blooms

The haptophyte Phaeocystis pouchetii is a key arctic phototroph capable of forming massive blooms. It is one of the important spring bloom species. This project will collect new data and combine this with already collected samples from the Isfjorden Adventfjorden (IsA) marine time series station....

Awarded: NOK 36,999

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Proglacial icing Foxfonna: chemical characteristics and source of water, RiS ID 10642

The project aims to determine the source of water feeding the icing adjacent to Foxfonna, Svalbard. Ice cores from the icing and water samples taken during the winter and summer will be analysed chemically. Additionally GPR surveys will be performed during the accumulation season and dye tracing ...

Awarded: NOK 35,445

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Lake coring Svalbard 2017

The Holocene Thermal Maximum (11-5 ka BP) may serve as an analogue for near-future Arctic climate: Like the present, this period was characterized by a combination of high radiative forcing (caused by maximum summer insolation instead of greenhouse gases) and freshwater input from melting Arctic ...

Awarded: NOK 77,999

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

UV Intercomparison and Integration in a High Arctic Environment

The Arctic is a region which to high extent influences the atmospheric behaviour in the Northern hemisphere and for this reason attracts the attention of the scientific community. The Atmosphere Research Flagship Programme (http://nysmac.npolar.no/research/flagships/atmosphere.html) is an activit...

Awarded: NOK 0.39 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Akershus

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Developing research and education collaboration across the largest climatic gradient in the Arctic between Svalbard and Northern Greenland

It is unique and important to be able to study the entire breath of the largest climatic gradient in the Arctic from cold Northern Greenland to warm Svalbard. So far, this has not been possible due mainly to logistical challenges and the remoteness of the northern Greenlandic area. With the newly...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

SeaBasin Checkpoints Arctic: the Svalbard case

In 2015 the European Commission (EC) funded a 3-year project (2015-2018) called 'Sea Basin Checkpoints - lot Arctic' (SBC Arctic) that is executed by a consortium consisting of Arcadis, Wageningen Marine Research, SINTEF and MARIS. This projects examines the current data collection and data assem...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Plant biomass workshop in Svalbard (SvalbardBiomass)

ArcticBiomass was a Norway-USA network (RCN 227064) project funded by the Research Council of Norway (http://www.nina.no/english/Research/Projects/ArcticBiomass). The main objectives of this project were to establish a joint American-Norwegian research team dealing with research on the combinatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Svalbard Snow Network

Building on previously funded workshops and pilot project, we would like to ensure the legacy of the Svalbard Snow Network through joint research publications (minimum 5). In order to foster and re-enforce international collaboration, three major goals will be addressed during the workshop: 1) sc...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Causes and consequences of variation in age at first reproduction in barnacle geese, RiS ID 10651

I aim to disentangle the causes and individual-level consequences of age at maturity, which varies considerably between individuals, sexes and years (Loonen unpubl.). My main data source will be mark-recapture data from the Ny-Ålesund barnacle geese population, providing individual-based informat...

Awarded: NOK 49,790

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Identification of emerging thyroid-disrupting compounds, and their associated effects in glaucous gull. RIS-ID: 10654

Endocrine disrupting compounds can cause harmful effects by interfering with hormone system e.g. the synthesis, secretion, transport, cellular uptake or signaling pathway of the hormones. The aim of the project is to investigated the ecological relevance of thyroid disrupting chemicals in glaucou...

Awarded: NOK 46,999

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Pre and Post Deposition Processes of Black Carbon in Snow

The aim of this proposal is to better understand pre and post depositional processes of black carbon (BC) in snow. So far, little research has been conducted to understand the transfer function of BC aerosols in the atmosphere to BC aerosols deposited on snow/ice surfaces. Additionally, little i...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The CalvingSEIS Workshop

This workshop evolved from the CalvingSEIS project (NFR) and The CalvingSEIS Experiment (SSF). In August 2016, an in-situ measurement campaign at the front of Kronebreen, Svalbard brought together 14 people from 6 nations and 9 nationalities over a 2 week period to measure processes and propertie...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Predicting the FUture KOngsfjord EcoSYStem, FUKOSYS

The Kongsfjord Flagship Program is one of the four Ny-Ålesund flagship programs. It is currently in the process of developing a structured and integrated research agenda under the umbrella of the Ny-Ålesund Science Plan. This proposal aims to enable the Flagship to be organized in a number of top...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

NAGLAMB: Ny-Ålesund GLAcier Mass Balance workshop

This proposal seeks support for a workshop to enhance international and interdisciplinary cooperation on the mass balance measurement programs currently running in the Ny-Ålesund area. Research challenges and opportunities will be identified, with focus on data gaps and sources of uncertainty, id...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Benthic insect egg and larvae development in High Arctic streams, RiS ID 10448

Aquatic ecosystems in High Arctic environments and their benthic communities are due to worldwide environmental changes strongly influenced by rising air and water temperatures, enhanced glacier melting, oscillating discharge dynamics and an extended snow free season. But little is known about th...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Oil entrapment in sea ice: Field experiments for 3-d X-ray microtomographic investigations

The aim of the planned experiment is to investigate the distribution and migration oil in natural sea ice and to image them in 3D with micro CT at a synchrotron facility. With increasing interest in exploring Arctic oil resources the study is a step towards a fundamental framework to cope hazard...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Mapping isotopic signature and trophic niche in relation to individual migration strategies of an Arctic seabird

The main objective of my MSc thesis is to investigate stable isotopes as indicators of trophic niche and diet in relation to individual migration strategies in an Arctic seabird. Little information exists on individual flexibility in migration- and winter foraging strategies of seabirds breeding ...

Awarded: NOK 61,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Autumn phenology of plants on Svalbard

This study will determine whether the timing of autumn senescence is related to the timing of spring snowmelt in natural and experimental snowmelt gradients. Autumn phenology will be assessed as amount of leaf colouration as well as pigment concentrations and nitrogen index. I aim to evaluate the...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Soil fungal responses to warming in polar regions, RiS ID 6921

Field experiment at Kongsfjordneset, Svalbard looks at effects of warming on the surface layers of the soil microbiota. Microbes, especially fungi, play a major role in nutrient cycling as they are a key factor in decompostiion processes in polar regions. The objective of the experiment is to loo...

Awarded: NOK 27,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The fate of sub-glacial carbon in an era of deglaciation, RiS ID 10410

Worldwide, deglaciation is transitioning sub-glacial ecosystems into proglacial areas and liberating previously buried organic material. Microbes utilize this material for energy, though factors that govern community structure and metabolism remain unclear. To study how sub-glacial carbon is tran...

Awarded: NOK 50,934

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Contact metamorphism around thin intrusions in Central Isfjorden: implications for reservoir quality and fluid migration, RiS ID 10408

The proposed target unit for CO2 storage in Central Isfjorden comprises a naturally fractured heterolithic sandstone-siltstone sequence interbedded with shale layers. Igneous intrusions have been identified in the target aquifer and are mapped. These igneous intrusions and their contact aureole i...

Awarded: NOK 50,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Biological rhythms, sleep and cognitive performance of high arctic residents during summer and winter RIS-ID 10223

The present proposal aims at investigating how prolonged isolation and confinement affects the decision-making processes in humans. Available results on human cognitive performance in isolated and confined environments (ICE) reveal a very mixed picture (e.g., Kanas and Manzey, 2008; Van Baarsen e...

Awarded: NOK 75,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Sedimentology, stratigraphic position and correlation of the Paleogene Ny-Ålesund Subgroup, RIS-ID 10418

The fieldwork carried out in Ny-Ålesund will be a part of the PhD-project "Regional Geometry and Sedimentology of the Lower Palaeogene basin on Svalbard". The main goal of this project is to achieve detailed understanding of the paleoenvironment prior to and during early stages of foreland basin ...

Awarded: NOK 45,593

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Fungal-liverwort associations: novel symbioses in polar regions? (RiS 10439)

The overarching aim of the project is to visit Kongsfjorden on Svalbard to sample leafy liverworts in order to (i) determine the fungal symbioses present in the plants, and (ii) to return live liverworts to the UK for studies into nutrient transfer between fungi and plants, including experimental...

Awarded: NOK 25,091

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Towards the first year-round continuous measurement of soil respiration at tundra warming experiment sites in Svalbard

In 2015, RIS ID 10116 entitled "Effects of summer and winter warming on CO2 efflux in high Arctic tundra" was awarded to establish in situ observations of CO2 efflux at one of the ITEX sites in Svalbard. This award created collaborations across three institutions in the topics of ongoing ITEX con...

Awarded: NOK 23,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Seasonal progression of the zooplankton community in a high-Arctic seasonally ice covered fjord, RiS ID 10445

The project will follow the seasonal progression of zooplankton in the seasonal ice covered Van Mijenfjorden. The aim is to assess the seasonal variation in the zooplankton community, determine the secondary production, and estimate the grazing impact on the primary production.

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Fate of Calanus glacialis reproduction and growth under different environmental stressors

The aim for this study is to determine the state of the Calanus glacialis population in Isfjorden, Svalbard. C. glacialis is a lipid rich copepod that is endemic to the Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution in the arctic shelf seas.This will be done by monthly excursions to Isfjorden to study...

Awarded: NOK 52,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Sedimentation and characteristic of sediments of Hansbukta and Isbjørnhamna (Hornsund) RiS ID: 10391

My project hypothesis is that Hansbreen has the direct influence of the changes of the marine sedimentation processes, especially in Hansbukta. In turn, the dynamic marine processes have a significant influence on the sedimentation processes in Isbjørnhamna. During the summer season 2016, I am go...

Awarded: NOK 33,040

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Pollutants in Arctic geese and their eggs

The aim of this project is to determine how pollutants in Arctic geese are transferred from mother to eggs and the mechanisms that are involved in this process. We will sample grass, droppings, feathers and eggs from geese June-July 2016 in Ny-Ålesund and measure pollutants levels. We will determ...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo

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