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UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

NatuRA - Sustainable use of Natural Resources in Alpine and mountain grassland ecosystems under global change

Fjellområder er avgjørende for en rekke viktige natur tjenester. De gir beiteområder for ville og domestiserte dyr, rent vann, karbonlagring og støtter tradisjonelle livsformer. Globalt sett har alpine økosystemer historisk blitt forvaltet under lignende miljømessige betingelser, ofte som felles ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Early-life Habitat Conditions, Telomere Dynamics and Later-life Performance in an Arctic-breeding Seabird

Adverse conditions experienced in early life (developmental and immature stage) can impose long-lasting negative effects on individuals’ survival and reproduction and thus drive population dynamics. To predict the populational consequences, it is important to find the mediator that carries the ef...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Architecture and tectonostratigraphic development of the Late Carboniferous paleokarst systems, Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard

The extensive paleokarst systems within the Billefjorden Trough are preserved as horizontal stratiform breccias and vertical breccia pipes developed along uplifted fault blocks. The carbonate breccias occur in the late syn-rift and early post-rift deposits, particularly within the Minkinfjellet F...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Life on the Edge: Unraveling Arctic Microbial Transformations from Winter to Summer

The enormous diversity of prokaryotes and protists plays crucial roles in marine ecosystems through unique metabolisms. However, how this diversity interacts with and is impacted by global warming in the Arctic Ocean remains largely unknown. This gap is particularly evident in Kongsfjorden, where...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Seasonality of Mercury in Kongsfjorden Zooplankton

This project explores the seasonal dynamics of mercury (Hg) sourcing in the Kongsfjorden food web, Svalbard, focusing on how Hg sources and transformations change with the polar light cycle. Collecting zooplankton samples across an entire year, we will study how photochemical processes and biolog...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Constraining the Greenhouse gas emission potential of High-Arctic Peatlands in a Changing Climate

High Arctic peatlands are important components of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Studies have indicated that Svalbard peatlands are currently significant carbon sinks, but the dynamics of their carbon cycle can change over time due to factors such as permafrost thawing or peatland drying. This mak...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Tracking Toxicants: Unveiling the Biogeochemical Fate of Toxic Metals and Organic Matter in Arctic Snow

This project deals with studying metals of environmental concern (like lead, cadmium, mercury, zinc, copper etc.) and natural organic matter (OM) present in snow samples from coastal areas in the Arctic region. The main objective is to increase the understanding of the properties and the role of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The impact of the viscous-elastic properties on the long-term bearing capacity of sea ice

The study will progress through the following phases: literature review, cold lab experiments, small-scale model testing, and full-scale field testing. The literature review will examine the mechanical and thermal properties of sea ice, establishing a foundation for the experimental phases. Labo...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

AI-driven sensor placement for arctic weather forecasting

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing weather forecasting, outperforming traditional methods in various areas. However, AI-based weather prediction remains underexplored in the Arctic, a region where conventional forecasting often performs poorly. This project aims to improve Arctic wea...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

INSULATE: Bryophyte controls on permafrost thaw (RiS ID 12331)

Due to an enormous increase in anthropogenic emissions over the last decades the Earth's climate is changing. With an amplified effect in the arctic regions the landscape is rapidly degrading. Where the poles are known for the permafrost and ice cover, the increased global air - and sea temperatu...

Awarded: NOK 88,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Decoding the novel role of the endoplasmic reticulum in mechanotransduction

Celler i menneskekroppen blir konstant utsatt for forskjellige typer krefter og responderer på dem i en prosess som kalles mekanotransduksjon. For eksempel når immunceller beveger seg gjennom trange vevsmiljøer, opplever de forskjellige grader av kompresjon og tilpasser migrasjonsatferden derette...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Krill between currents and predators: connecting climate, ocean and ecosystem dynamics in the South Orkney Islands region

Sørishavet rundt det antarktiske kontinentet spiller en viktig rolle i det globale klimasystemet. Samtidig er økosystemet, fra små plankton til store hvaler, svært følsomt for effektene av klimaoppvarming og pågående endringer i miljøet. I K-POD vil vi fylle noen av kunnskapshullene som gjenstår ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Advanced bio-based solutions to monitor and mitigate hormonal risks of irrigation waters originating from manure separation technologies

BioTreatED prosjektet har som mål å overvåke og redusere virkningen av hormonelle forbindelser i slurrybaserte væskefraksjoner for å sikre trygg bruk av disse til vanning og gjødsling av jordbruksarealer. Det viktigste forventede resultatet av prosjektet er utviklingen av funksjonelle bakterieko...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Isfjord Radio Sky-Camera for solar energy forecasting

Following a switch from coal to diesel in 2023, Longyearbyen is now working to implement a hybrid system using diesel, batteries, solar, and eventually wind. The project faces challenges from unpredictable Arctic weather, particularly clouds, which affect solar energy production. This project aim...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Novel application to estimate Diatom in situ growth rates during the Arctic Spring bloom

The annual productivity of Arctic fjord ecosystems is driven by the phytoplankton spring bloom, mainly dominated by diatoms. However, climate change effects are impacting Arctic fjord ecosystems through Atlantification, sea ice loss and increased glacier run-off, which influence phytoplankton spr...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard Radar Snow Penetration Experiment

The project shall carry out a three part fieldwork campaign on Svalbard targeting quantification of K-band microwave penetration of radar signal into snow. The radar penetration is one of the most important knowledge gaps for the snow on sea ice thickness measurement of the future CRISTAL satelli...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Harbour seal foraging behaviour in an Arctic fjord.

Investigating the behavior of high trophic predators is a fundamental part of understanding the ecosystem, as they function as key components through top-down effects. The harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), one of the high trophic predators in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, is experiencing dramatic environme...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Tidligfase InnovasjonsPlattform på Simula

Teknologioverføring er en nøkkelprosess for å omsette forskningsresultater til praktiske løsninger og kommersielle produkter. Ved å bygge bro mellom akademia, industri og samfunn kan forskningsbasert kunnskap bidra til innovasjon som løser samfunnsutfordringer, skaper nye arbeidsplasser og styrke...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The structural evolution of pre-Devonian basement along the Billefjorden Fault Zone in Petuniabukta, Svalbard

The Billefjorden Fault Zone (BFZ) is a N-S striking regional-scale long-lived lineament cropping out in central Spitsbergen. This lineament exposes multi-deformational evolution that initiated with ductile deformation preserved in the metamorphic basement. Following several phases of brittle def...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Vegetation Impact on ThAw-depth progression in SvaLbard RiS ID: 12569

Svalbard is among the regions warming up fastest on earth. Where and to which extent the warming soils will impact the stability of the frozen soils remains uncertain. While the warming will speed up soil thaw over summer, the rate co-depends on surface conditions. For example, well-drained, vege...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Interspecific DVM : Monitoring key species swimming behaviour in Kongsfjorden

the project is to join the OpKROP campaign in March and June 2025 in Ny-Ålesund to do extra experiments to monitor key Arctic copepods swimming behaviour to improve our knowledge on diel vertical migration (DVM) behaviour. Currently, most of the knowledge on DVM are at a community level. But...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Hydrographic features and microbial assemblages as fingerprints of antibiotic resistance and pathogen spread under climatic change scenario

HybernARCTIC intends to collect data and metadata on antibiotic resistance and bacterial pathogens in glacier systems and melting water to observe the potential effects of climate changes on their dispersion, and to address the development of ARGs. The main scientific question is “Could a greater...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

TRACing Atlantic WatEr Masses in Arctic fjords using Uranium-236 and Iodine-129: A novel approach to detect AtlantifICation

Arctic sea ice extent reached its sixth lowest this September over the 46-year-satellite record, and it is likely to continue declining. Atlantic waters represent 90% of the total inflow in the Arctic Ocean, and have been recognized to play an important role in the Atlantification of this region....

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Investigating known and unknown PFAS in the Arctic snow

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of environmental pollutants, first produced in the 1950s, known for their toxicity, bioaccumulation, and persistence in the environment. While over 14.000 PFAS exist and may have been released into the environment, conventional analytical met...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Benthic Nutrient dynamics and the Temporal and spatial controls on High latitude fjord Elemental Cycling

The project investigates sediments as parts of nutrient cycling within fjords and thereby parts of the marine ecosystems. While the dynamics within elemental cycling are increasingly studied within the marine water column, the interaction with and dynamics within sediments remain largely unknown....

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Cryosphere Topographic Survey for Radar Altimetry Validation 2

This project addresses a critical gap in existing radar altimetry validation studies by targeting small, complex glaciers and ice caps—terrain underrepresented in existing datasets that focus on large, flat ice caps. Over the course of 14 field days based from Ny-Ålesund, Petuniabukta, and Longye...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Towards using InSAR Ground Subsidence Observations to constrain Permafrost Thaw Trajectories

Under a warming climate and the thawing of the uppermost permafrost, areas containing substantial amounts of permafrost ground ice subside. The permafrost ground ice content is one of the most important variables determining ground subsidence and landscape development upon permafrost thaw, but we...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Geochemistry and Trace Element Profiles of Ponds in Arctic Wetlands and Proglacial Areas

As the Arctic warms at an accelerated pace, permafrost thaw and glacial melt are expanding wetland and proglacial areas, with important implications for contaminant release and distribution. In these environments, ponds function as important freshwater sources and may become critical hotspots for...

Awarded: NOK 83,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Monitoring seawater CO2 release from thawing permafrost mobilized by Bayelva proglacial stream, RiS ID 11654

The Bayelva River (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard) is a crucial site for studying carbon release from thawing permafrost into coastal waters. In September 2023, Italy’s Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP-CNR) installed the “Mooring Aldo Pontremoli” (MAP) near the river’s prodelta to monitor seawater CO2 li...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Match-mismatch between copepods and spring bloom in an Arctic fjord

Arctic ecosystems are subject to environmental changes such as increasing freshwater inputs and acidification with increasing global temperatures. This has implications for the spring phytoplankton blooms upon which Calanus copepods rely for food following the overwintering period of their lifecy...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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