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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Jan Mayen - A multi approach study on Holocene environmental and climatic changes

Based on field work (Quaternary geology) in Jan Mayen, the project will provide new knowledge on climate and environmental changes in a terrestrial key area in between two main ocean current systems; cold Arctic water from the East Greenland Current/Jan M ayen Current and warm Atlantic water from...

Awarded: NOK 31,474

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Are little auks filter-feeders? An experimental approach to test their sensitivity to ongoing climate change RIS ID: 6639

Little auks (Alle alle) are highly vulnerable to environmental modifications in the Arctic. Knowledge of their feeding behaviour and foraging profitability is crucial to predict how these energetically challenged birds will cope with anticipated environme ntal changes, leading to a reduction of t...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Meiofauna Composition and Distribution: A Pan-Arctic Comparison

Sea ice is a unique medium composed of a solid ice matrix permeated by an extensive brine channel system. This channel system is host to a community of ice associated (sympagic) microbes, algae and invertebrates. Given the understudied nature of sea ice o rganisms, many sympagic organisms lack ta...

Awarded: NOK 35,999

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Potential activity of microbial community in the Biological Soil Crusts in the glacial forefield of Werenskioldbreen glacier

The aim of this project is to detect photosynthetic and heterotrophic activity of BSC in High Arctic glacier forefields. The proposed project will be conducted in glacial forefield of Werenskioldbreen glacier in the SW Svalbard (June/July). It will be ba sed at the Polish Polar Station at the Ho...

Awarded: NOK 55,074

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Turnover of trophic markers and lipid carbon in distinct Arctic marine food webs, RIS ID 6668

In a context of sea ice decrease in the Arctic, this PhD project focuses on a combination of field and laboratory investigations to improve the understanding of the basic lipid metabolism and physiological adaptations of distinct Arctic food webs. One of the main focuses of this project is the ...

Awarded: NOK 69,721

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Spatial variability of snow and avalanche conditions along a climatic gradient in Central Spitsbergen

This project will study the regional variability of snow conditions around Longyearbyen and how the regional conditions influence snow avalanche potentials. The fieldwork will run over one winter season (January to May, 2014) and will be the basis for an MSc thesis in Physical Geography. System...

Awarded: NOK 12,999

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Calving and Surging Glaciers: Observations, Modelling, Predictions

Calving and surging are both complex dynamic phenomena that exert strong controls of the flux of ice into the oceans. Calving - the breakaway of icebergs from glaciers into the sea - accounts for a large proportion of ice flux from Arctic glaciers and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Snow Monitoring using Automatic Camera Systems at Svalbard Key Sites

On Svalbard, the long-lasting snow cover and the timing of the snowmelt is a crucial factor in the yearly cycle of all land ecosystems. SMACS will explore monitoring of the snow cover and snow melt from the point to a scale of several square kilometers at the Svalbard key research locations Ny-Å...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Hydrological and speleological investigations on Austre Brøggerbreen, RiS ID 6570

Speleological mapping (winter) and dGPS mapping and dye tracing (summer) to investigate differences in morphology and velocity of a supraglacial and englacial drainage system. The data will be compared with previous mappings and dye tracings to see how th e channels have evolved the last decade.

Awarded: NOK 60,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-RUOK-EONR-økonomi

Ownership type, performance and the context: the study of institutional and industrial owners

In the joint research project we try to answer the question, which was in the loop of academic research during the last 50 years both in finance and strategic management literature: how ownership type influences the performance of the organization. The pr evious empirical evidence provided inconc...

Awarded: NOK 61,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

ANTHOcyanin production PLatform Using Suspension cultures

Antocyaner er fargepigmenter fra planter, og som har et enormt potensiale som naturlige fargestoffer i matvarer, med nyanser fra oransje og rødt, til lilla og blått. Forbrukere er stadig mer bekymret for skadevirkninger relatert til syntetiske tilsetninger i mat, som har ført til forbud mot bruk ...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Competitive wood based interior materials and systems for modern wood construction

We spend 90% of our lives inside buildings and this affects our physical and psychological well-being and comfort. Comfort is most widely associated with temperature, humidity, noise, light and smell and these are addressed by various regulations. However , the significance of well-being, particu...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Project Establishment Support - Framework Grant H2020

Høgskolen i Gjøvik (HiG) counts on a driven research community that works in a cross-disciplinary, multi-sectorial manner collaborating with partners from academic and research institutions, the industry and SMEs to carry out research well aligned with H2 020 main pillars, in areas of Cyber- & In...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Innlandet

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Unraveling Holocene Arctic climate dynamics using sediments from Hajeren, a glacier-fed lake on Mitrahalvøya (RiS ID 6663)

The Arctic shows an amplified response to current warming and is rapidly changing. Data on past polar climate variability is scarce and hampered by a low resolution. My PhD research aims to provide high-resolution data for the Holocene to put current warm ing into perspective. To this end, I anal...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

knowledge exchange in the expedition cruise tourism community in Svalbard, ris id 6595

this phd research project will investigate the adaptive governance potential of the marine community on expedition cruise tourism on Svalbard and how it can be improved by the willingness of different actors to share different types of knowledge (local, s cientific or industry) and to learn from ...

Awarded: NOK 33,362

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The Effects of Perfluorinated Compounds on Thyroid Hormone in Ivory gulls (Pagophila eburnea) and Black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)

This study will investigate whether perfluorinated compounds affect the thyroid hormone system in ivory gulls and black-legged kittiwakes. This will be accomplished by collecting blood samples from the two species during the breeding seasons of 2013 and 2014. The blood will be analyzed for perf...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Later snow melt reduces dwarf shrub secondary growth (Salix polaris, Adventdalen), RiS ID 6615

In many tundra regions dwarf trees of the Arctic (i.e. shrubs) are becoming dominant and increasing in cover. Since shrubs can become old (more than 100 yrs old) and its annual ring growth register valuable environmental information, dendrochronological s tudies on tundra shrubs are becoming more...

Awarded: NOK 19,748

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Effects of pollution on metabolic rate and physiological blood parameters in arctic kittiwake, RIS ID 6617

I aim to study the physiological effects (both in terms of metabolic rate, endocrine and clinical parameters) of novel brominated flame retardants (NBFRs), organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs), traditional organohalogenated compounds (OHCs) and toxic metals in the light of ecological charact...

Awarded: NOK 20,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-RUST-EONR-statsvitenskap

Exchange semester at Ludvig-Maximilians Universität München, to deepen my understanding on International Political Economy

The last few years Europe has been shaken. The ongoing Eurozone crisis affects not only the entire European Union, but also the world as a whole. A recurring question among both political scientists and economists is how the EU will recover from these ext remely challenging times. Will it come ou...

Awarded: NOK 35,000

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Mapping individual migration strategies of an Arctic seabird

The aim of the project is to investigate individual migration strategies and wintering areas in an Arctic seabird. Little information exists on individual flexibility or consistency in migration and wintering strategies of seabirds breeding in Svalbard. S uch information is important for conserva...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Microbial Symbionts of Arctic Peatlands and their Relevance for Present and Future Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling - ArcBiont RiS ID: 6547

The project will investigate microbial communities of the methane cycle that are associated with submerged Arctic peat mosses. The thesis will focus on Arctic samples from the peatlands Twin water, Gludneset, and Knudsenheia in the vicinity of Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard), the Siberian Lena Delta (coll...

Awarded: NOK 52,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Reaching Deep into the Big Black Box: diversity and functionality of arctic microbes.

In a broad sense, this research aims to elucidate microbial community structure and the forces that shape succession and diversity patterns within sea ice: light regimes, nutrient influxes, parasitism, and mutualism. Heavy fungal parasitism of diatoms ob served in Barrow, Alaska, (Personal obser...

Awarded: NOK 24,310

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Levels and effects of POPs on thyroid hormone levels in glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus) breeding in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, RiS-ID: 6672

The aim of the study is to detect levels of selected POPs in glaucous gull breeding in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, and investigated how this may affect the thyroid hormone levels.Its hypothesized that high levels of contaminants will be detected and that ther e will be an inverse correlation between ...

Awarded: NOK 20,697

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Silent Timber Buildings for the European market

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

PostMaster

The overall objective of the PostMaster project is to develop and test an innovative and durable electric three-wheeled scooter that will provide an effective solution for green urban transport in EU. The project is responding to a growing demand from cit ies across EU to replace heavy-duty vehic...

Awarded: NOK 59,999

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

High Throughput Estimation of DNA Repair Capability

Project to be established: Developing a novel diagnostic tool for assessing DNA repair capability. DNA repair is a crucially important player in preventing mutations and therefore cancer. It is also important as a factor in determining individual patients ' response to cancer therapy. We will dev...

Awarded: NOK 21,219

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Innovativ Kraft - konkurransekraft gjennom delte kapabiliteter

Innovativ Kraft har med utgangspunkt i den enkelte bedrifts innovasjonsprosesser og kapabiliteter, utviklet løsninger som gir økt tilgang til ressurser, competanse, utstyr etc, og kompetanse i disse prosessene. Dette inkluderer også løsninger for mer faktabaserte utviklingsprosesser. Dette ha...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Agder

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Incentivized Sustainable Mobility

ISUMO is a SaaS-Cloud-based platform which enhance Sustainable Mobility Soultions. It introduces an innovative incentive-based cooperative business model as a platform that builds on registering, evaluating and rewarding a set of topic-related Sustainable Mobility ITS involving 3 stakeholders: c...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Søker å etablere et prosjekt for tekstgjenkjenning (OCR) av historiske dokumenter med bruk av adaptiv gjenkjenning og datalingvistikk.

Lumex har gjennom mange år utviklet avansert OCR-teknologi med spesiell fokus på dokumenter som er vanskelige å gjenkjenne. Teknologien dekker alle ledd av gjenkjenningen fra preprosessering av bilder, adaptiv gjenkjenning og avansert bruk av ordboksoppsl ag for å bedre gjenkjenningen. Lumex har...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offsh-2

High Accuracy Motion Reference Unit HA-MRU

Forprosjektet vil ta utgangspunkt i et eksisterende «motion reference» elektronisk kort som er utviklet av vår samarbeidspartner Egersund Maritime Electronics (EME). Se vedlegg 1. EME sin kompetanse innen fagområdet er et viktig bidrag. Det andre utgangs punktet er Action Technologies (AT) sin p...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Rogaland

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