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HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The smolt probe - novel tools for assessment of smolt quality and marine performance in Atlantic salmon

Smolt quality is critical for successful salmon aquaculture, and poor smolt quality may generate a wide range of problems; increased mortality in seawater, increased vulnerability to diseases and poor growth, which in total represents a considerable loss. Therefore, the salmon industry continuou...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Risk-based design principles for energy installations due to climate change effects

Climate change is real and owners and operators of oil & gas installations have to adapt to a different environment. Decisions will have to be made under large degree of uncertainty. There are today no specific methods that combine global climate models w ith structural design methods. Hence the ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Miljøteknologi for fremtiden - Automatisert EPCON CFU system

I de senere år har kompakte flotasjonsenheter vist seg effektive sammenlignet med mer tradisjonelt renseutstyr for produsertvann, både med hensyn på bedre reduksjon av oljeinnhold og mindre arealbehov. Når det gjelder utstyr for reduksjon av oljeinnhold i produsertvann generelt, og kompakte flot...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Rogaland

FORNY20-FORNY2020

Tunnel Safety Monitoring - a complete safety solution for use in tunnel structures worldwide

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Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Akershus

FORNY20-FORNY2020

Subsea Pipe Tracker - a service of more efficient and reliable way of inspecting seafloor pipelines

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Akershus

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Forhandlinger og strid. Kjønn og verdsetting i kunst, estetikk og kulturell offentlighet

"Forhandlinger og strid: kjønn og verdsetting i kunst, estetikk og kulturell offentlighet" er et tverrfaglig forskningsprosjekt som undersøker de mange og komplekse koplingene mellom kjønn og verdi i kunstfeltet. Det fokuserer på både verk, institusjon og estetisk teori, og ikke minst på hvordan...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Kjønn og endrete par-relasjoner Gender and partnership dynamics/Kjønn og endrete par-relasjoner

Shifts in partnership and family dynamics and gender roles have captured the attention of policymakers across Western countries. How such changes affect men's and women's well-being in partnerships is an important issue, which demands research on the inte rrelationship between new partnership beh...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Nye familiekulturer: kjønnede intimitetsformer og livsprosjekter i omforming

Prosjektet adresserer utfordringer og muligheter i møtet mellom den nordiske velferdsmodellens likestillingsprosjekt og nye, og mer kulturelt komplekse, familie- og samlivsformer i dagens Norge. Dette gjøres ved å undersøke hvordan kjønnede samlivsprosjek ter formes og omformes i to nye grupper s...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Time and Aesthetic Value in Early Modern Literary Culture

Det overordnede målet med prosjektet har vært å fremme et vesentlig bidrag til den eksisterende internasjonale retorikk- og bokhistorieforskningen gjennom å vise hvordan begrepet om at tid er kvalitet var helt styrende for virksomheten til de tidligmodern e forfatterne (se ovenfor). Videre har de...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Influx of Atlantic Water from the Nordic Seas to the Arctic Ocean during the late glacial and the Holocene.

Under siste istid var Barentshavet dekket av Svalbard-Barentshavet isskapene. Etter isen trakk seg tilbake ble Barentshavet etter hvert en av hoved transportveiene for Atlantisk vann på vei mot Polhavet. I dag er syd-vestlige Barentshavet dominert av varm t og salt Atlantisk vann mens nordlige Ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Alcohol consumption and harm to others

Prosjektet fokuserer på fem former for negative konsekvenser av andres alkoholbruk: (1) vold, (2) promillekjøring, (3) sykefravær (4) konsekvenser for barn, og (5) opplevde problemer knyttet til andres alkoholbruk. 1. Formålet er å undersøke om det er en kausal sammenheng mellom alkoholbruk og...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Cannabis: An ethnographic exploration of individual trends and socio-cultural context

The aim of this project is to examine the relationship between socio-cultural context and individual trends in shaping different cannabis consumption patterns among experienced adult users. This is based on the premise that different beliefs and attitudes about cannabis in terms of how, when, wh...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The New Challenges in High Seas Fisheries Management: Dealing with Competition Across Institutional Venurs

One of todays most pressing marine governance issues is the how to effectively govern areas beyond national jurisdiction, on the high seas. This project will address two clusters of current challenges in high seas fisheries management: i) the adoption of trade measures to combat IUU-fishing (ill...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Toxic Algae: Taxonomy, Quantification and Early Warning

TOXICALGAE tok sikte på å øke forståelsen av giftig marine mikroalger og vi fokuserte primært på arter som er giftig for fisk. Mange av dem er små, skjøre og vanskelig å oppdage ved hjelp av standard overvåkingsmetoder som lysmikroskopi, derfor er nye verktøy som enkelt og nøyaktig kan oppdage og...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

ARCtic Ocean Mixing: Influence of changing ice cover on internal waves and mixing

The proposal is motivated by recent findings showing i) the sensitivity of Arctic Ocean circulation to background deep-ocean diapycnal mixing and ii) enhancement of near-inertial internal wave activity and induced mixing in the absence of sea ice. Mixi ng in the stratified ocean is related to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Terrestrial Invertebrate Fauna of Svalbard Workshop

? Build personal acquaintances between scientists working at disparate institutions. ? Coordinate future invertebrate research. ? Visit to the research facilities available at the Svalbard Science Centre and in Barentsburg. A briefing on the facilities in Ny-Ålesund will also be presented. ?...

Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian and Russian Upper Atmosphere Co-operation On Svalbard part 2

The scientific objectives as stated by NORUSCA including multi-site* spectral observations of aurora and airglow, morphology and temporal dynamics in context of ionospheric convection, and real time exchange of data during radar and rocket campaigns are a ll items that will be addressed by this a...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Understanding fitness-related effects of dispersed oil on Calanus finmarchicus

The planktonic copepod Calanus finmarchicus is the dominating species in the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea in terms of biomass, and because of its central position in the food web and large lipid content it is by far the most important source of energy fo r a number of fish species. This crucial ...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Target cell recognition by natural killer cells

NK-celler utgjør omlag 5% av hvite blodlegemer. I tillegg til å drepe kreftceller kan NK-celler oppdage og drepe celler som er infisert med intracellulære mikroorganismer, slik som virus og visse typer bakterier og parasitter. Intracellulære infeksjoner kan være vanskelige å forebygge ved vaksi...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Changes in the Calanus complex on both sides of the Atlantic and its possible impact on fish populations

A 10 degree latitude northward shift in the characteristic copepod populations of temperate oceans has been observed over the past several decades, seemingly in association with global warming effects on ocean water temperature. This has moved the Subarct ic and Cold Temperate copepod species int...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Drift og dels redaksjonelt arbeid med SJDR i årene 2010-2012.

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Metablomics to study toxicity of acute discharges to cod larvae

The original project summary is found in the application for the NFR project 184716/S40. The intended additional methodology will strengthen the original hypothesis testing by adding increased knowledge on the molecular responses of the exposures in the study. New hypotheses will be tested with...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

The Use of Drugs and Alcohol: The Impact on Employment, Unemployment and Risk of Social Exclusion.

In this project we will analyse the use of drug and alcohol and the impact on employment and unemployment in the transition from youth to adulthood. We will use unique data of a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of 2000 young people followed up through 25 years: from 1985 to 2010. M...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Workshop on survey methods for estimating catch, effort and economic value of widely dispersed marine recreational fisheries

The goal of this multidisciplinary workshop is to develop collaborative research on cost-effective methods that can be used to monitor catch and effort and to quantify the economic effects in diffuse marine recreational fisheries in Europe. The importanc e of quantifying catches in marine recrea...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Promoting prosperous coastal communities - Integrated community and business development in a regional perspective

The overriding question asked by this project is: Why have some coastal communities succeeded in developing prosperous communities while others struggle? We will study factors of importance to success: demography and economic development; local and region al collaboration; the importance of a coh...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bilat - Relating laboratory and field bioaccumulation; importance of abiotic and biotic parameters, and use of trophic magnification factors

The Bioaccumulation Advisory Group (BSAG) of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is in the process of organizing a workshop to be held in New Orleans 2 days prior to SETAC NA, 2009 (i.e., 18-19 November). The workshop will focus on the low, or non-existing, translation of...

Awarded: NOK 99,418

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Growth performance and detoxification of mussels cultured in a fjord enhanced by forced upwelling of nutrient rich deeper water

A previous study in the Lysefjord was the first full-scale experiment to use submerged brackish water discharged in a controlled manner to force upwelling in a fjord area providing enhanced phytoplankton concentration and production. In this project we hy pothesize that this enhanced phytoplankto...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Alcohol consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease

Many obervational cohort studies have found moderate alcohol consumption to be associated with reduced risk of coronary heart disease. The question is whether this is a true causal association. If it is true, what are the likely mechanisms, and can specif ic genes or other risk factors interact w...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Investigations of population structure in shrimp (Pandalus borealis) in the North Atlantic

The northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) is the most valuable shellfish resource in the North Atlantic and supports one of the world's largest fisheries. The need to establish stock boundaries and study the spatial organization of shrimp has been emphasi zed by the international shrimp milieu. P...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Development & assessment of technology improving fishing operation & on board processing with respect to environmental impact & fish quality

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Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage