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HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Plankton climatology in North Norwegian waters - concepts, mechanisms and monitoring

In the Norwegian Sea field data during the winter demonstrates that the winter habitats of CV C. finmarchicus are basically associated with the distribution of cold deep water. The platform for this project have emerged from the MARE project “Plankton Adv ection in the Barents Sea” funded for 200...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Bowhead whales - at the edge of extinction in the Northeast Atlantic

Bowhead whales are endemic to arctic and sub-arctic regions of the Atlantic, Bering, Beaufort, Chukchi and Okhotsk Seas. They live in close association with the sea ice edge. Since the last glaciation period the distribution of bowhead whales have fluctua ted widely in concordance with climatic f...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Habitat choice and activity in relation to hypoxia and haemoglobin genotype in fish;comparisons across populations and species, Postdr.

We propose to combine experiments, molecular ecology and modelling to investigate influences of hypoxia on habitat choice, boldness, recovery from stress and swimming activity in relation to individual genotype and physiology in fish. Comparisons both wit hin (among different populations) and acr...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Use of new in situ observations in operational ocean forecasting

Emerging ocean observing systems - ARGO floats, ferry boxes and long range HF radar - promise to significantly increase the amount of in situ data available in near-real-time. In addition, concentional ship and buoy observations are expected become increa singly available in NRT. The project will...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Surface monitoring of marine resources by LIDAR (SUMMAREL)

Mackerel is presently one of the economically most important stocks in the northeast Atlantic. Further, the stock has a substantial but scientifically unclear role in the dynamics of Norwegian Sea ecosystem. High market prices mean that even small changes in catch size, the Norwegian share is 31...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

A colloborative breakthrough:Molecular quantification of zooplankton feeding in complex marine ecosystems

Development of new direct methods to quantify zooplankton feeding in situ, is necessary to gain a better understanding of the trophic interactions in aquatic ecosystems. We propose to develop a potentially powerful method, based on state-of-the-art molecu lar techniques, including quantitative re...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Sanksjonsapparatet i fiskeriforvaltningen

Formålet med prosjektet er å analysere sanksjonsapparatet i norsk fiskeriforvaltning. Sanksjoner er de tiltak myndighetene disponerer når utøverne i fiskerinæringen har brutt regelverket. Temaet er interessant blant annet ut fra de siste årenes fokusering på lovovertredelser innen denne næringen...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Integrating Modelling and Remote Sensing for Algae Bloom Monitoring in Norwegian Waters, Dr.gr.stip.

Currently major defficiencies exist in our ability to understand and describe algal bloom events and their influence on the environment. In this project we will contribute in: 1) defining the environmental conditions that lead to bloom of the harmful alga Chattonella, which has been a threath f...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Models of optimal energy allocation, maturation strategies and skipped spawning in cod, Dr.gr.stip.

Prosject summary: Prosject summary: Recently, life-history theory has evolved from dealing only with fairly simple optimisation problems to a more advanced state where density-dependence and stochastic (feed-back) enviroments are included. We will develop models of cod growth as a function of foo...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Population biology of ringed seals in Svalbard, Norway, Dr.gr.stip.

This 3.5-year programme (2002-2005) will investigate important aspects of ringed seal population biology and ecology. The 8 projects within the programme will expand our general knowledge of ringed seal ecology in Svalbard and contribute to local and nati onal management plans as well as an inter...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Biomarkers to monitor oil and gas industrial activities in the deep Norwegian Sea ecosystem, Postdr.stip.

Project summary: As oil gas development in the deep Norwegian sea gains momentum, reliable environmental monitoring tools are required to identify the potential impact of oil exploration and production on organisms inhabiting this ecosystem. Most of the research with rega rd to bio-monitoring the...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Svalbard

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Gelatinous zooplankton in fjords and coastal waters of Norway, Dr.gr.stip.

Prosjektsammendrag: Geleplanktondyr finnes alltid tilstede i havets frie vannmasse. De forekommer fra overflaten til de største dyp men mengden har sjelden blitt bestemt, grunnet deres ømfintlighet ved innsa0mling og vanskeligheten å identifisere dem fra fangst med planktonet og tråler. Under de ...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Ensemble forecasting and the ocean's mesoscale

Project summary: Despite the popularity of ensemble simulations for medium-range and long-range forecasts in meteorology, similar activities are rather sparse in the ocean modeling community. The abundance of mesoscale activity (such as eddies) off the Norwegian coast has been throughly document...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Oslo

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Overvåkning av det marine miljøet

Nasjonalt råd for operasjonell marin overvåkning og varsling ble etablert 31. oktober 2001. Rådet skal arbeide for at norsk marin overvåkning og varsling har et omfang og en kvalitet som står i rimelig forhold til viktige samfunnsmessige behov (miljø, kli ma, fisk, olje osv.). Rådet skal bidra ti...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Carotenoids and reproductive performance in fish: gobies as a model system, Dr.gr.stip. og utenlandsstipend til Skottland

Prosjektsammendrag: This project investigates the role of carotenoids in the development of fish eggs and larvae. The eggs of many fishes are yellow-orange, due to the presence of carotenoid pigments. Such pigments cannot be synthesised de novo by the fish, but stem from the natural food of the ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Application of high resolution DNA profiling to management of eastern North Atlantic minke whales

Project summary: The Norwegian minke whale DNA-register is a valuable scientific resource. However, the current number of loci (10 micro-satellite loci) is too low for answering questions that are important to the management of North Atlantic minke whales. The project wi ll assess a subset of in...

Awarded: NOK 0.63 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Chattonella - A new bloom forming harmful algal species in Scandinavian Waters, Post.dr.stip.

Project summary: Several blooms of Chattonella have been observed along the coast of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway since 1998. The blooms in 1998 and 2001 caused large mortality among encaged salon along the southern coast of Norway, where 350 and 1100 tonnes respectively,...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Relationships between stochastic marine environment factors and production of sea run Arctic charr and brown trout

Much of the observed varation in marine survival and growth of sea run Arctic charr and brown trout may be explained by oscillation in marine prey abundance and salmon lice infections both within and between years. This variation in growth and survival ma y also be indirectly correlated to stocha...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Utvikling av metoder for In Situ Tidsseriemålinger med optisk sensor av planteplankton, uorganiske partikler oppløst humus til bruk..,dr.gr.

Dagens situasjon med hensyn på planteplanktonidentifisering og overvåking, er en tidkrevende prosess som er lite egnet for kontinuerlig overvåkings- eller for varslingsformål. Ved en eventuell oppblomstringskatastrofe blir planteplankton identifisert ved hjelp av mikroskopi. Fra båt følges event...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

LLNW: Physics/Biology Based Approach to Satellite Monitoring of Primary Production and Algae Blooms, Dr.gr.stip.

Project summary: In Norway's vast territorial economic zone, commercial fisheries and aqua-culture industry contribute substantially to the nation's export. But in recent years the aqua-culture industry has suffered major economic losses due to toxic algal blooms. Also in the development of tour...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Fødeatferd hos planktivor fisk og fiskelarver, effekt av lysmiljøet og turbiditet

Ved hjelp av prosjektet ønsker en å få frem både histologiske resultater og atferds resultater som kan kvantifisere den effekten endringer i lyskvalitet og -intensitet har på fiskers fødeinntak, og den effekt økt turbiditet har på byttets kontrast. Result atene skal danne grunnlag for å øke reali...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Market-based allocation-mechanisms for coastal resources

Project summary: The management of the Norwegian coastal resources can be said to have three major long-run objectives, expressed in various government publications. Industrial activities in the coastal zone shall generate as much income (value added) to the Norwegian com munity as possible, it m...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Otolith growth as indicator of herring stock affiliation and survival probability, Dr.grad.stip.

Project summary: Recent studies have demonstrated that daily otolith increments can be identify herring stock affiliation at individual level. In the present project this methodology is used together with acoustic survey data to study the periodical changes in the mixtur e of juvenile herring s...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Marine protected areas as a fisheries management tool - A bioeconomic analysis with emphasis on management cost and uncertainty,Dr.gr.Reithe

Prosjektsammendrag: The aim of this project is to study marine protected areas (MPAs) as a fisheries management tool when emphasis is put on two important aspects: management costs and uncertainty. Although often ignored, management costs make up a substantial part of the c atch value in many co...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Effects of the non-native red king crab on Chlamys islandica beds, Postdr.stipend/Utenlandsstipend - Lis Lindal Jørgensen

Project summary: The non-native king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus, has invaded fjords in northern Norway Local divers report reducing or eradicated scallop (Chlamys islandica) beds in Varanger fjord due to predation by the king crab. The king crab pred ates on many of the main invertebrate cla...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Compute Ecology - Computational Modelling of Phytoplankton Growth in Stratified Fjord and Coastal Waters, Postdr.. NN

Prosjektsammendrag: In fjords and coastal waters the freshwater from rivers may often give a mixed upper layer separated from the lower layers by a pronounced density difference. The upper layer, with its largest solar radiation, is the living domain for the phytoplankton, the basis for the food...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Oslo

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

The energetics of oceanic eddies and mesoscale features off the southern tip of Norway: A numerical study,dr.gr.stip. Ingerid Fossum

Prosjektsammendrag: It is well known that the ocean area off the southern tip of Norway is an area where oceanic mesoscale features such as eddies, fronts, upwelling jets and filaments are in abundance. It is also well known that this area is a higly biological productive ar ea, and that this pro...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Oslo

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Near-to-optimal strategies for quota setting in the Barents Sea

Prosjektsammendrag: The problem is to find near-to-optimal quota strategies for the key sepcies cod, capelin, and herring in the Barents Sea multispecies system. The project is in cooperation with the Institute of Marine Research (IMR). An important side-effect of the projec t is a transfer of kn...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

The impact of high-resolution atmospheric model forcing on operational coastal and shelf ocean models HAMFOM),Dr.gr.stip./utenl.stip.England

Prosjektsammendrag: Considered is how oceanic frontogenesis and cyclogenesis processes are affected by exploiting recent high-resolution atmosphere model results as driving forces. The study is motivated by the fact that the trend in numerical weather prediction (NWP) is toward application of atm...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Oslo

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Small-scale and large-scale structuring of the North Atlantic cod (Godus morhua): evaluating current stock division

Project summary: Most of the mjor marine fish stocks are under heavy exploitation, and many of them are being overexploited. North Atlantic cod is an example of a heavily utilized species and still remaind one of the most important commercial species in the North Atlantic . However, areas under h...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Oslo

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