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IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

APECs sekretariat (APECS: Association of Early Career Scientists)

APECS (Association of Early Career Scientists) er en ideell organisasjon som arbeider med å fremme rekruttering til og interesse for polarforskning i hele verden. UiT etablerer nå et slikt sekretariat i Tromsø i samarbeid med Forskningsrådet. Etablering av dette sekretariatet vil være svært vik...

Awarded: NOK 0.62 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

IPY Svalbard Course 2008: A multidisciplinary science - management cross-talk course on IPY projects and sustainable management of Svalbard

The target group of the IPY Svalbard Course 2008 are executive officers and managers in Norwegian governmental administration and the industry, and the aim of the course is to give the participants an introduction to the natural conditions, history, polit ics, environmental monitoring, industrial...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

A book project for children: Svalbard rock ptarmigan - a year in the Arctic

Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperbora) is a unique endemic species of the terrestrial ecosystem at Svalbard. Being the only wintering herbivorous bird on the archipelago, it has attracted interest from research, management as well as children. T he book`s working title is, Svalbard rock...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Datahåndterings- og koordineringstjeneste for norske forskningsprosjekter under det internasjonale polaråret (DOKIPY)

Det overordnede målet med IPYs datapolitikk er å sikre oppnåelsen av IPYs hovedformål ved å knytte sammen fagområder, prosjekter og enkeltforskere gjennom åpen datautveksling og fri tilgang. Ved fri utveksling av data kan observasjonsprogram planlegges fo r å unngå overlapping og duplisering slik...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

IPY Overview

The IPY Overview will present research from the International Polar Year as an overview. The process in which the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) presented their overview in 2004 will serve as a model and template for the process and the IPY Ove rview. The overall goal is to compile r...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

From IGY to IPY: Photo documentation of Norwegian scientific polar research during the last 50 years

The project is owned by the Norwegian Polar Institute (www.npolar. no). The result will be special galleries in the NPI photo database (Fotoweb). The NPI Photo library contains 80 000 polar photos, around 60 000 of which can be labelled historical photos. However, there are few photos from the p...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Artic Eye

The TV-documetary will show the scientific methodes and results from some of the science programs going on at NY Ålesund, Svalbard. I will stress that this is a marginal place for life and thats why it is an eye for what is going on when it comes to pollu tion and climate change. (se the main te...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

EALÁT-Outreach II - Reindeer Herding and Climate Change

The Reindeer Portal is to be a non-commercial information resource about circumpolar reindeer husbandry and IPY, available for research and education institutions on different levels, national authorities, the Arctic Council system, reindeer herders, herd ers' organisations and youth, as well as ...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DEATH OR THE WEST COAST OF GREENLAND - Fridtjof Nansen´s Greenland expedition 1888-89 Norwegian polar research and IPY

The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology will during the period 2007-10 produce and present an exhibition based on Fridtjof Nansen's Greenland expedition in 1888-89. The exhibition will include an overview of Norwegian polar research and IPY, with ex amples of relevant issues. In addition to...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

TORJUS AND MIRO EXPLORE THE ARCTIC: A BOOK ABOUT ARCTIC SCIENCE FOR AND BY KIDS

East Greenland boasts some of the most spectacular geological sites of the world. The scale of the landscape, the range of colors and structures of the rocks is striking. Sea and land mammals, birds and large fish are numerous and easy to approach. Peop le have only lightly touched the land, an...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Encyclopaedia of the Barents Region

The International Polar Year 2007-2009 is not just about research. Also of great importance is the public engagement with polar science and the involvement of local groups and of ethnic minorities. This outreach project aims at making an important part of the polar regions, the Barents Region pr...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

High school students - building scientific and polar curiosity through participation in Fram-V: a scientific field camp on drifting sea ice

To inspire, educate and give hands-on polar research experience to high school students, we propose to establish a five week field camp on drifting sea ice about 300 km north of Svalbard. The four week science and education program - early April to early May 2007 will involve up to 50 students (4...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

IPY DATA Coordinator - Real-time and Operational Data Specialist

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar bear circumpolar health assessment in relation to toxicants and climate changing.

Anthropogenic pollution and climate change are the two most significant threats for arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Because of food chain biomagnification of lipophilic persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the polar bear is one of the spec ies which have the highest levels of thes...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming: A Norwegian contribution to the IPY-37 GLACIODYN

This project is a Norwegian contribution to IPY Activity 37 Glaciodyn. The goal is to investigate the role of ice dynamics in the response of Arctic glaciers and ice caps to global warming, to improve prediction of future changes and their impact on fresh water fluxes to the ocean and thus global...

Awarded: NOK 14.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

In BIAC the mechanisms, manifestation and impact of intermediate and bottom water formation originating from the bipolar Atlantic Ocean shelves will be explored. The overall goal is to evaluate the global ventilation through circum Arctic and Antarctic sh elves and consequences for the climate by...

Awarded: NOK 32.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY proposal under the ArcticWOLVES initiative ID No: 672

Strongly cyclic interaction between plants, herbivores and predators typically drives the food web dynamics over large tracts of the arctic tundra biome. These interaction cycles, however, now appear to be fading out at the southern edge of tundra, possib ly due to climate warming. The Arctic Cli...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Long-term Sea Level Variability in the Nordic Seas

Many forces in the atmosphere and ocean influence the sea level. Thus the sea level integrates a great number of physical processes in the environment and therefore can be a representative parameter for monitoring of climatic changes. There are more than 30 tide-gauge stations in the Barents, Nor...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Dynamic Continental Margin Between the Mid-Atlantic-Ridge System (Mohns Ridge, Knipovich Ridge) and the Bear Island Region

A concentrated active and passive seismological experiment along the continental margin of the Barents Sea near Bear Island and the mid-Atlantic along the Knipovich Ridge is proposed. We will study the Earth´s structure and dynamics at this margin from it s top sedimentary cover to its imprint in...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

EALÁT-RESEARCH: Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study: Reindeer pastoralism in a changing climate.

IPY EALÁT-RESEARCH focuses through research on understanding adaptive capacity of reindeer pastoralism to climate variability and change in Russia and Norway. IPY EALÁT Reindeer herding and climate change has received full endorsement from IPY Joint commi tty (number 399) and is a core project fo...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

iAOOS-Norway: Closing the loop

iAOOS-Norway: Closing the loop is a contribution to an integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System, iAOOS. It builds on, and supplements, other ongoing components of iAOOS such as NABOS and DAMOCLES. iAOOS-Norway will contribute a share to iAOOS through buil ding on pieces of an ocean-atmosphere-cry...

Awarded: NOK 33.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Arctic Natural Climate and Environmental Changes and Human Adaptation: From Science to Public awareness

SciencePub aims to answer two critical questions in current Arctic climate research: What characterizes natural climate change in the Arctic, and how did early pioneer immigrants relate to climate change? By studying natural climate archives in terrestria l and marine sediments from Svalbard, N N...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DOC turnover in polar microbial food webs.

Microbial communities, including phytoplankton, protozoa, bacteria, archaea, fungi and virus, are by far the most abundant and the most taxonomic and genetically diverse group of organisms in marine pelagic ecosystems. Biological activity, biomass, produc tion and remineralization in these system...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

PPS Arctic Norway - the Norwegian contribution to the internationally endorsed IPY project #151; PPS Arctic

The PPS Arctic Norway project is the Norwegian contribution to the circumpolar IPY core project PPS Arctic (Present day processes, Past changes, and Spatiotemporal variability of biotic, abiotic and socio-environmental conditions and resource components a long and across the Arctic delimitation z...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

THORPEX-IPY: Improved forecasting of adverse weather in the Arctic region - present and future

We propose here a Norwegian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) project THORPEX-IPY. THORPEX-IPY is the Arctic component of the international program THORPEX (The Observing System Research and Predictability Program), which is a part of the WMO World Weather Research Program (http...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian-US Antarctic IPY Traverse (TASTE-IDEA)

The objectives will be accomplished through a coordinated program of field observations, remote sensing, and modeling. The core of the work is two overland traverses in Dronning Maud Land (DML), East Antarctica: 1) from Norwegian Troll Station (72º 0? S, 2º 32? E) to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Sta...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Mapping threats to arctic bird populations. The effect of infectious organisms and pollution on bird health. IPY NO 172 BirdHealth

The arctic environment and its wildlife are currently being threatened; from climate change, from pollution and from infectious organisms (IO). Health in wildlife is regulating population numbers through individual survival and reproduction. Little is kno wn about the combined impact of IO and po...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

CAVIAR - Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions: Focus on northern Norway and northern Russia

The Arctic is experiencing rapid changes in environmental, societal and economic conditions. The particular conditions to which communities are sensitive are not well documented, nor have the conditions that might facilitate or constrain the adaptive capa city in the face of interacting climate a...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Permafrost Observatory Project: A Contribution to the Thermal State of Permafrost in Norway and Svalbard

The key goal of TSP NORWAY will be to develop a spatially distributed set of observations on present status of permafrost temperatures, active layer thicknesses and periglacial activity in Svalbard and Norway. Two new boreholes will be drilled and equippe d giving new information on permafrost te...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Svalbard

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

IPY-ICESTAR: Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research

This is a joint proposal from the Norwegian participants in the ICESTAR/IHY-program. It is an integrated part of the international ICESTAR program and will take full advantage of the ICESTAR Virtual Data Port, which will make data available from a large g round based network covering the northern...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland