13,423 projects

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Acoustic methods in detection and analyzing of calving events at the Hans Glacier front, RiS ID: 6133

My project is based on the hypothesis that characteristics of the acoustic signals recorded in the Arctic fjord provide valuable information about the dynamics of surrounding tidewater glaciers. In the summer of 2013, during a 3-months experiment, two aut onomous, hydroacoustic buoys will be depl...

Awarded: NOK 46,874

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Epiphytic diatoms from the Arctic coasts: ecology, taxonomy and biogeography, RIS ID 6207

Diatoms are important biotic elements of Arctic marine ecosystem, significantly influencing the dynamics of primary production, nutrient cycling, carbon transport, oxygen flow and its activity, and all trophic processes. It is therefore imperative for the sake of the future of Arctic marine ecos...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Photogrammetric investigations of calving activity and flow rate on Kronebreen, Svalbard (RiS ID 6162)

The proposed research is part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impact on Sea Level) project which aims to apply optimised observational techniques for monitoring glacier motion and dynamics, as input for improved models of calving glacier dynamics. The pre sent study focuses on Kronebreen. Stereos...

Awarded: NOK 18,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Svalbard Snow and Avalanche Science Workshop

The first basic avalanche research in Svalbard was initiated by the Norklima CYROSLOPE Svalbard research project (2006-2009), with the aim of studying the influence of particularly avalanches on traffic and infrastructure around Longyearbyen in a changing climate. This first basic avalanche rese...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Barents Sea Ice sheet - insights into the climatic sensitivity of marine based ice sheets

The main topics to be discussed are - Evidence for former ice streams - Patterns of deglaciation; rapid or gradual? Single or multiple episodes of ice retreat? - Relationship between marine-based and land-based sectors of the ice sheet - Subglacial drain age - Chronology - How to incorporate new...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Remote biosensor technology measuring valve gap and shell growth of bivalves for detecting accidental discharges in the Norwegian Arctic

The main goal of the project will be to transfer and optimize for the Arctic a remote biosensor technology developed in France to permanently record an index of water quality (based on a continuous bivalve-activity recording) and, eventually, rapidly dete ct industrial accidental discharges in th...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Workshop to develop joint future permafrost hydrology research in Svalbard

It is increasingly recognized that permafrost hydrology is an important component in the Arctic system and needs to be better understood in light of climate chanage. At the same time we now know based on IPY research that the warmest continuous permafrost in the high arctic exist in Svalbard. Co...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Svalbard Young Researchers Network

Svalbard is the site for numerous international and interdisciplinary research projects every year that involve both senior and early career researchers (ECRs). Especially for ECRs that may conduct their first field season in this area, knowing the logist ics and infrastructure available to carry...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Ice-sediment-landform associations of surging glaciers in Svalbard

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Awarded: NOK 15,647

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Weathering processes in an Arctic shale catchment

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Awarded: NOK 16,602

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Temporal changes in microbial community structure and function

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Awarded: NOK 44,875

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Impact of Changes In primary productivity on pelagic-benthic coupling in the Arctic (ICING)

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Awarded: NOK 47,842

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Birdmap

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Awarded: NOK 23,852

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Nitrogen dynamics in the winter snow pack

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Awarded: NOK 49,429

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Multi stress effects of presistent organic pollutants on glaucous gulls in Svalbard

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Awarded: NOK 16,259

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Determination of energetic challenges in kittiwakes throughout tha annual cycle

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Awarded: NOK 29,399

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Geomorphological Mapping of Quaternary Landforms and Sediments for Geohazard Assessment in Selected Cultural Heritage Sites in Svalbard

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Awarded: NOK 22,592

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

High-resolution 3D digital maps of the interior of subglacial caves for hydrologic modeling

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Awarded: NOK 56,429

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Relationship between biogeochemical processes in polythermal glaciers based on hydrochemistry

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Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

The invertebrate fauna of Svalbard and response to climate change

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Awarded: NOK 35,399

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Assessing subgrid variability of permafrost temperatures using probability density functions

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Awarded: NOK 52,719

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

The provenance, composition and fate of organic carbon on an Arctic glacier

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Awarded: NOK 46,092

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Reconstruction of late Holocene glacier and climate variability from the distal glacier-fed lake Kløsa at Mitrahalvøy, Spitsbergen

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Awarded: NOK 51,329

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Effect of increased foraging stress of adult kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) on offspring immunocompetence.

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Awarded: NOK 74,328

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Mighty midgets?-The contribution of pico-and nanoplanktonic cells to the downwards carbon flux in (sub)arctic marine systems

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Awarded: NOK 60,586

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Weathering processes in an Arctic shale catchment

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Awarded: NOK 14,232

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Birdmap

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Awarded: NOK 23,852

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Birdmap

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Awarded: NOK 66,015

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Clione limacina- life history, prey selection and phylogeography

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Awarded: NOK 61,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Long term and seasonal variability of a sea urchin and kelp density within the high arctic sublittoral

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Awarded: NOK 48,068

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa