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KONT-Kontingenter

Norsk medlemskap i International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)

Aktiv norsk deltagelse i internasjonalt samarbeid om vitenskapelige boringer (ICDP) International Scientific Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP - https://www.icdp-online.org/home/) er et flernasjonalt initiativ som skal fremme og finansiere vitenskapelige boringer på land. Programmet ...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Lateral termination of a delaminated orogenic root: Lower crustal architecture, and exhumation history of northern Mozambique

The East African-Antarctic Orogen forms one of the largest orogens on Earth and is characterized by strong lateral variations. The orogen root probably underwent partial delamination in its southern part, indicated by vast volumes of late-tectonic A-type granites between Mozambique and Antarctica...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Assessement of benthic foraminifera as environmental proxy in the Arctic region

What are the long term oceanographic changes of Arctic fjord and shelf environments? In order to answer this important question this project aims to significantly advance benthic foraminifera as proxy indicators of modern and past environments in the fjor ds and shelves of Svalbard, the Barents S...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Øglegraverne 2007

We apply for funding of a a large scale excavation at Knerten, south of Diabasodden three weeks in August 2007. The locality was discovered during fieldwork in 2006 and represents one of the most important new sites for marine reptiles worldwide.

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project.

The development of new analytical techniques, and improved models for planetary evolution, has intensified research into the evolution of the Earth System and targeted several critical time intervals in Earth history when the biosphere and geosphere were experiencing global-scale changes. This dr...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

The Møre-Trøndelag Fault Complex - an integrated study

The goal of the present study is to integrate geological and geophysical methods in order to improve our knowledge on the geometry and the mechanics of the Møre-Trøndelag Fault Complex (MTFC). The MTFC is a crustal-scale fault zone whose core has been exh umed during geological times. As such it ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Search for reliable signals of catastrophic failure

A sudden catastrophic failure causes enormous damage in terms of properties and lives. However a reliable precursor of such failures can save a lot, by allowing evacuation and other precautionary measures. From this motivation, the main goal of our projec t is to identify reliable precursors of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.72 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Synthetic Aperture Radar for ocean current feature retrievals and surface velocity estimates

Estimating currents from SAR imagery is still research-dominated. Most of the work has been in development of improved forward radar imaging models to predict the SAR signatures of regions with changing oceanic currents. In the latest radar imaging model (RIM) by Kudryavtsev et al., (2005) deta...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

What was the palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean in Middle Eocene times?A study into the nature and genesis of biosiliceous-rich laminae

High abundances of marine diatoms and freshwater chrysophyte cysts are preserved in mm-scale laminated organic-rich Middle Eocene sediments on the Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean. This work aims to elucidate the nature and genesis of the laminations i n terms of biosiliceous components and ch...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KONT-Kontingenter

Norwegian membership fee to ORFEUS

ORFEUS (Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology) is a non-profit foundation that aims at co-ordianation of digital broadband seismology in the Euro-Mediterranean area. It gathers and provides seismological waveform data to the scient ific community through its data center. I...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Greenland Ice Sheet Elevation (GreenISE): Integrated methodology using satellite, in situ and numerical modelling data

The "GreenISE" research project is an observational and modelling analysis of changes in the Greenland ice sheet. The project's objectives will be achieved through a set of five (5) sequential tasks: 1) Satellite altimeter data acquisition and processing ; 2) Analysis of inter-satellite bias for...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Aerosol/gas-phase chemistry and microphysics in global models

Aerosols of natural and anthropogenic origin have environmental impacts through health effects, climate forcing, modification of the hydrological cycle, and reduced visibility. The objective of this project is to improve and validate a coupled aerosol/gas -phase model for the processing and distr...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

The SUP focuses on fundamental problems of atmosphere-ocean interaction, and provides the opportunity to conduct the following in-depth investigations, covering a 3-4 year time frame: 1. Fundamental studies of atmosphere-ocean flux processes 2. Interannu al variability of surface fluxes and ocea...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Inverse Magnetic Modelling of Glacier Activity Using Suspended Sediments

MAGNET seeks to create a model that is able to quantify glacier activity over time periods of thousands of years allowing us to produce accurate estimates of glacier erosion and sediment yield. This will give us a unique possibility to investigate how a g lacier responds to changing climate condi...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

X-LAKE: Resolving chemical element variations in lake sediments through high-resolution XRF analyses

X-LAKE is a novel application where new limnological methodology will be coupled with geomorphological expertise for enhanced understanding of lake sediment variability. X-LAKE plans to apply XRF as a tool for detailed examination of selected sediment rec ords along the coast of Norway. Through X...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Understanding vertical motions on sheared continental margins: The western Barents Sea as a key province

The continental margin between the western Barents Sea and the Norwegian-Greenland Sea is a sheared margin formed when Greenland and Eurasia slid past each other during the Eocene epoch and later separated. During the formation of a sheared margin, the s ame geological processes act at different...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo 2008

I perioden 5.-14. august 2008 arrangeres den 33. Internasjonale Geologi-Kongressen (IGC) i Oslo som et fellesarrangement mellom de nordiske landene. Det forventes mellom 5000 til 8000 deltakere til kongressen, som blir den største fagkongressen som noen g ang er arrangert i Norge. Kongressen arra...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

INTERACTIONS OF ARCTIC SEA ICE COVER AND OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT

This proposal seeks funding for a three-year postdoctoral position for Bjørg Risebrobakken. The aim is to better understand the natural variability of the Arctic and how Arctic processes interact with forcing factors and responses of the Nordic Seas and t he North Atlantic. Focus area of the stud...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

The search of meteorite impact structures in the Fennoscandian Shield - a novel technique

This proposal outlines a new co-operation program on impact craters between the European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC) and the universities of Oslo and Helsinki along with the geological surveys of Norway and Finland. The main aim is to develop an intelligent search program to identify hidden meteorit...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Life in the volcanic crust of the early Earth: conditions, timing and depth

Over the past decade, our group has provided convincing evidence that alteration of basaltic glass in pillow lavas of modern and ancient oceanic crust is partially controlled by microbial activity. As a result, bioactivity may have important implications for global chemical fluxes and the evoluti...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Southeast Pacific CALYPSO coring of expanded Holocene-late glacial sediment sequences

Here we propose a Norwegian contribution to an international campaign to recover a number of long, large-volume, sediment cores between 45-55°S along the Chilean continental margin. We request support to survey and core five sites spanning the westerly wi nd belt and intersecting the flow path of...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Effect of varying topography on the drift in shallow-water waves

All oceanic waves induce a nonperiodic drift current that comes in addition to the periodic motion we usually associate with the waves. Shallow-water waves are waves that are long compared to the water depth, and with a motion that extends all the way dow n to the bottom. Due to frictional forces...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

Prosjektet består i å videreføre og koordinere norsk engasjement i forhold til Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). IOC er et mellomstatlig organ innenfor UNESCO, har 129 medlemsland, og arbeider for å fremme internasjonalt samarbeid og koor dinere programmer innen marin forskning, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

U-Pb geochronology of Caledonian eclogites

The project will investigate the timing of eclogite formation in the Western Gneiss Region and Seve Nappe Complex of the Scandinavian Caledonides and in North-East Greenland. The presently known chronology of the Western Gneiss Region shows that the high- pressure metamorphic events spanned some ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Palaeobiology of Silurian and Devonian eurypterids and scorpions

Arthropods (crustaceans, chelicerates, insects and myriapods) are the most diverse and abundant group of animals on our planet today, and have been since the Cambrian. The most diverse group of chelicerates during the Palaeozoic was the aquatic eurypterid s, with about 300 different species. The...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Physical and chemical processes in a large magma chamber: The Bjerkreim-Sokndal Intrusion

Physical and chemical processes that take place in magma chambers are of fundamental importance for magma differentiation, mixing and contamination as well as the nature and products of volcanic activity. Despite considerable research effort over many yea rs there is currently little concensus am...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP): Norwegian Network and Office

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) was initiated in November 2003. Although the program proceeds the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), it represents a new program with new opportunities. IODP is designed around three platforms: A new riser drilling vessel that currently is under construct...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

The influence of mantle processes on passive margin formation - a case study from the island of Zabargad, Red Sea, Egypt

Since the discovery of plate tectonics the study of the Red Sea rift system has played an important role in understanding how a continent splits. Despite the attention this area has attracted for years, many problems remain still open or are controversial . I. e.: (i) Did fluid infiltration and m...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

"Ocean weather and ecosystem" in the Nordic Seas - a Norwegian Component to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)

Efficient and safe use of the oceans in the Nordic Seas is essential for many human activities and operational oceanography will support the needed observations and forecasts. Increasing human activities in the marine and coastal waters are related to oil and gas exploration on the continental s...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Surface wave tomography for Norway and adjacent areas

We propose to conduct a new tomographic study of the crust and upper mantle under Norway and adjacent areas by means of state-of-the-art methods and new seismological data, in particular broadband data, which are now available for this region. We will mai nly concentrate on obtaining a better S-w...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

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