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MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

JPI Oceans - Mikroplast - BASEMAN - NILU - Defining the baselines and standards for microplastics analyses in European waters

A fundamental issue precluding assessment of the environmental risks arising from microplastics is the lack of standard methods for microplastics sampling and detection. Consequently there is a lack of reliable data on concentrations of microplastics and the composition of polymers within the mar...

Awarded: NOK 0.61 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Akershus

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

iCod 2.0: Integrative environmental genomics of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua); a holistic approach to characterize the biological effects of

Increasing numbers of structurally diverse chemicals are continuously being identified in biota as emerging contaminants, including in remote areas such as the Arctic and Polar regions. For most of these compounds, knowledge regarding their impacts on key species and ecosystems is limited, and ev...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Effects of Climate Change on Fish and Fisheries: Modeling Workshop.

Global warming is already changing the structure and function of some of the worlds ocean ecosystems with further changes expected over time as air and water temperatures rise. These ecosystem changes include altered physical properties (e.g., ocean temperatures, currents, stratification, disper...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Can contemporary evolution explain the many enigmas in recent dynamics of Norwegian spring-spawning herring?

Norwegian spring-spawning herring is one of the largest pelagic fish stocks in the world, and likely also one of the best studied and documented ones, with time series data on catches back to 1899, on population dynamics back to 1904 and biological data on individuals starting from 1935. Neverthe...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Epigenetic variation in seagrass clones: key to success without genetic variation?

Seagrass meadows form the foundational basis of some of the most productive and highly diverse coastal marine ecosystems on the planet. Their global decline has a negative impact on economically important species and results in the loss of ecosystem services worth more than ? 16,000 ha-1 year-1....

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

JPI Oceans - Deep Sea Mining - Assessing ecosystem functioning in the DISCOL site 26 years after disturbance

This is one of the few studies that investigate ecosystem function in an abyssal plain that was previously disturbed by a mimicked deep-sea mining experiment. Despite the low number of replications, the results indicate that the processing of fresh phytodetritus has not fully recovered after ...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Rogaland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Effects of dispersed oil droplets and produced water components on growth, development and reproduction of Arctic pelagic copepods

The RCN-funded project with acronym PWC-Arctic investigated the effects of oil spills and produced water from oil production activities on Arctic zooplankton species, more specifically on copepods of the genus Calanus. These copepods are at the bottom of the Arctic marine food chain and are preye...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Workshop on microplastics in marine environments: pathways, toxicity and impacts on biota

Plastic litter enters our oceans from various human sources and activities on land. This is an important environmental problem and poses a risk for the health of marine ecosystems and human populations relying on marine resources such as seafood. The need for monitoring and research on marine pla...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

The cod capelin interaction in the Barents Sea: spatial dynamics in predator prey overlap and functional response

What are the factors determining cod's capelin consumption in the Barents Sea? In the CODFUN project, we have found some of the answers to this question - answers that we need to be able to fish capelin sustainably - also in the future. The Barents Sea is huge - four times the size of mainlan...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Managing trawl catches by improving the hydrodynamic performance of sorting grid sections and codends

The large densities of Atlantic cod in the Barents Sea in the last years together with malfunctions of mandatory sorting grids have caused that the fleet occasionally takes excessively large trawl catches. These excessive large catches result in reduced fish quality, and imply an increased risk f...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Lower trophic level mixed fishery; implications for ecosystem and management

Following a steadily increasing demand from the aquaculture industry for raw materials for feed production, there is an increasing interest in harvesting lower trophic level organisms as a new source for marine protein and lipids. Before a potential commercial fishery on lower trophic level speci...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Comprehensive chemical characterization of the unresolved petrogenic components of produced water

Produced water from offshore oil production platforms represents the largest direct discharge of effluent into the offshore environment and is known to contain a complex mixture of heavy metals, dissolved organic compounds including hydrocarbons, phenols and organic acids, as well as the residues...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Understanding and predicting size selectivity and escape mortality in commercial zooplankton fisheries: case study on Antarctic krill

Antarctic krill is considered one of the least exploited fisheries resources worldwide. The size of annual quotas follows the precautionary principle and has great potential for increasing when more knowledge about population dynamics, biomass and ecosystem importance is better mapped. Norway is...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Guest researcher grant; Ocean circulation, oil spill modelling and contingency planning

Oil spill models are software used to simulate the behaviour of oil in the water. They are able to simulate several processes, including drift, buoyancy, spreading and physical-chemical transformations (weathering) which oil is subjected to when it is in contact with sea water. They are also able...

Awarded: NOK 95,999

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

TIGRIF: TIdewater Glacier Retreat Impact on Fjord circulation and ecosystems

Tidewater glaciers terminate directly into the sea, often into fjords. Global warming has led to the retreat of most tidewater glaciers around the world. Tidewater glaciers have a significant influence on fjord circulation. During the summer, rivers at the bottom of the glacier discharge into the...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Seeing further: broadband acoustics for improved measurements of demersal fishes

Fishery and scientific echosounders have difficulty in seeing fish that are close to the seabed because of the very strong echo from the seabed. This problem hinders the use of acoustic tools and techniques for detecting, measuring, and observing demersal fishes. New technology echosounders ar...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Acoustic kayak drone

We have constructed an electric kayak drone equipped with advanced echo sounders mounted on a retractable keel. The drone can be deployed from research vessels or from the shore, using a modified boat trailer. The steering of the drone is facilitated through either wireless remote control or by a...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

18th International conference on Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO 18): Trondheim Norway, 24-27, May 2015

Reasonable conservation and sustainable development strategies must recognize that species including - plants, animals, and microorganisms, with associated gene diversity in these species, different terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems are all part of a bio logically diverse planet Earth. Therefore...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Multi-species dynamics above and beneath the sea-surface

It is essential to account for multi-species dynamics if we want to manage marine resources efficiently and sustainably. Multi-species interactions exist both above and beneath the sea-surface, and the fisher's catch and landings decisions link what happens in the market, above the sea-surface, w...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Fate of cold-water coral reefs - identifying drivers of ecosystem change

The physical, chemical and biological environment in the deep-sea has long been regarded as extremely stable. New data from the FATE field campaigns do not support this. On the contrary, our measurements show that temperature, pH and alkalinity varies naturally and can change quickly in time, mak...

Awarded: NOK 14.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Combined effects of multiple organic stressors from jellyfish blooms and aquaculture operations on seafloor ecosystems

Ocean health is declining due to a combination of climate warming and human activities, and is often accompanied by a reduction in ecosystem services. This decline is particularly evident in coastal regions where inputs from municipal, agricultural, aquaculture, and industrial sources lead to blo...

Awarded: NOK 18.1 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Recruitment as a condition for value creation - impacts of fisheries restructuring and internationalization on fisheries employment networks

The coastal employment systems are changing. Traditionally, the employment system has been described as a close-knit network of fishermen, their families and the local communities composed of local processing industries, schools etc. Gradually these networks are changing. One core question has ...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

ECOsystem dynamics in the NORwegian SEa - new methods for understanding recent changes

The primary objective of project EcoNorSe was to improve our understanding about the interactions and the dynamics of the Norwegian Sea ecosystem by developing and using modern methods for identifying and quantifying the diet of these ecologically and economically important pelagic fish populatio...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

RedSlip: Reducing slipping mortality in purse seines by understanding interactions and behaviour

Current practices for releasing unwanted catches from purse seines (slipping) can kill a large proportion of the released fish. NFR-Project RedSlip aimed to reduce slipping mortality by improving our understanding of how the purse seine performs and how Mackerel (Scomber scombrus) behave dur...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Strategic and dynamic aspects of fisheries management under uncertainty

The sustainable management of renewable resources is a prerequisite for future development on this planet. Fisheries are an important part of this picture, contributing to employment, food security and innumerable ecosystem services. As a typical common-p ool resource, fisheries need to be manage...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Population structure and evolutionary response to environmental changes in C. finmarchicus and C. helgolandicus

Marine zooplankton is strongly affected by climate change. In the North Atlantic and the Arctic, copepods of the genus Calanus are predominant in the zooplankton biomass and play a key role in marine food webs both as main primary consumers and as prey sp ecies for many commercially important spe...

Awarded: NOK 37,163

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Adaptation or plasticity as response to large scale translocations and harvesting over a climatic gradient in the marine ecosystem?

Norway leads the world production of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar); however, sea lice infestation remains a major challenge for the salmon aquaculture industry. In the last decade, the use of wild-caught wrasses as cleaner fish has emerged as a cost-effective alternative against sea lice i...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Agder

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Estimating viral impact and Cost of Resistance on marine phytoplankton communities

Numbering in excess of 10 million per teaspoon of seawater viruses are interacting with their cellular counterparts in the microbial kingdom on an unforeseen scale. Notably, viral lubrication of the ocean's microbial machinery has enormous implications for global biogeochemical cycling and ecosy...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

In situ swimming and orientation ability of larval cod and other plankton. Parameterizing models of prey availability to top predators

Larval transport from spawning grounds to nursery grounds is a key processes that needs to be addressed if attempting to quantify spatiotemporal availability to top predators. However, larvae are not entirely destined to follow ocean currents. They can af fect their dispersal both through vertica...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Harvesting lower trophic levels - Ecosystem effects and trade offs

Due to an increasing demand for raw materials for feed production, there is an increasing pressure to expand harvesting of zooplankton. Presently, harvest of krill in the Antarctic and a small-scale fishery of copepods along the Norwegian coast exist, but these fisheries are likely to be expanded...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

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