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POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Beyond protection – Discussing the roles of nature conservation in Arctic borderlands

“Beyond Protection” addresses the shifting roles and emerging challenges of nature conservation in Norwegian Arctic borderlands, focusing on Svalbard and Øvre Pasvik (Eastern Finnmark). In this region, conservation has long been linked to geopolitical dynamics such as the politics of presence, th...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Forskningsinfrastruktur for Polhavet

Observasjonsbøyer under isen Polhavet gjennomgår store og raske endringer fordi isen smelter og vi går fra islagt til åpent hav. Observasjonsdata fra Polhavet er svært viktig for å forstå hvilke endringer som skjer og hvilke konsekvenser endringene har. Observasjonsbøyer som settes ut under isen ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

BorealBlaze: Climate effects and feedbacks of changing high-latitude wildfire

Climate effects and feedbacks of changing high-latitude wildfire The primary aim of the project “BorealBlaze: Climate effects and feedbacks of changing high-latitude wildfire” is to advance the understanding of the climate effects and feedbacks from changing wildfire activity at high Northern la...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Norway’s carbon sink under climate change

Norway has historically maintained a robust carbon sink, vital for meeting net-zero climate targets in Norway and Europe. However, terrestrial carbon uptake in Norway has unexpectedly declined 40% over a decade. While increased harvest and aging forests partly explain this decline, a significant ...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Navigating the uncharted territory of the Anthropocene climate

Warming and other climate change indicators continue to adversely impact the global society. In order to avoid dangerous and potentially irreversible climate catastrophes, the Paris Agreement was signed, with the aim of limiting climate warming at 2 degree and pursuing efforts toward 1.5 degree. ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

PalaeoArc 2025 – Conference on Processes and Palaeo-Environmental changes in the Arctic: From Past to Present

On our warming planet, the Arctic stands out as the epicentre, currently warming up to four times faster than the rest of the globe. Reliable prediction of how this trend will evolve in the future, and the societal and ecosystem impacts of these changes, requires improved understanding of the pro...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Arctic Security Conference 2025 – Managing Polarization and Fragmentation

Arktiske sikkerhetsforhold blir stadig mer spent. Etter Russlands invasjon av Ukraina har avskrekking i stor grad erstatte dialog og samarbeid i nordområdene, noe som har ført til økt militær aktivitet og flere tilfeller av sabotasje og provokasjon. Allerede før februar 2022 var debatten om geopo...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Akershus

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Less is More? – Snow Cover Loss as a Driving Force of Increased Vegetation Damage in the Arctic-Boreal Region

Northern climate has been shifting to a new regime over the past decades. Not only are summers longer and warmer, but winter weather has become increasingly variable. This has led to an increase in mid-winter warm spells, rain-on-snow events and the loss of snow cover. All of these extreme winter...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Thawing Arctic permafrost, emerging risks: managing critical infrastructure, cultural heritage, and mountain slopes under climate change

Temperatures in the Arctic have risen nearly four times faster than the global average over the last few decades, leading to a cascade of consequences. Longyearbyen (LYR), the largest settlement in Svalbard, represents a critical case study for understanding these effects as it is located at a ho...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Svalbard

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Arctic Frontiers 2025: Beyond Borders

Arctic Frontiers 2025: Beyond Borders er en internasjonal konferanse i Tromsø med fokus på forskning, politikk og næringsliv i Arktis. Formålet med prosjektet er å støtte utvidelsen av konferansen med ekstra lokaler som følge av økt kapasitetsbehov. Arrangementet bidrar til norsk polarforskning v...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Partial ionized plasmas in astrophysics

Climate change is altering atmospheric dynamics and their interactions with near-Earth space, impacting ionospheric stability and magnetospheric processes. These changes have significant implications for navigation, communication, and satellite operations. Auroras, as visible indicators of space ...

Awarded: NOK 64,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Intercomparison of coupled forecast models in the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone

Purpose: The workshop aims to facilitate an in-depth analysis and comparison of coupled forecast models focusing on the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). Through collaborative efforts, participants will discuss the performance and uncertainties of various forecasting systems in predicting interacti...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Norwegian ICARP IV Coordination Workshop

The Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) is a multi-year (2022-2026), community-wide coordinating planning process convened by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) in collaboration with many partners worldwide. ICARP IV represents a collective effort...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

The Polar One Health Summit 2024

The "Polar One Health Summit" is an essential event aimed at addressing the unique health challenges emerging in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, where rapid environmental changes are affecting humans, animals, and ecosystems in unprecedented ways. This event is needed because polar regions are ...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Participation workshop Hiorthhamn (PwH)

We are facing a looming danger of losing the Cable car station in Hiorthhamn (Taubanestasjonen i Hiorthhamn) due to coastal erosion and decay. Why should it concern us? What can be done? And is there even a desire to save it? A participatory workshop will be organized to bring together the kay st...

Awarded: NOK 74,077

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

EAVP 24 – a polar perspective of palaeontology Application for event support

The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (NHMO) plans to host the annual scientific conference for European Association for Vertebrate Palaeontology 2024 in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in partnership with Evolutionsmuseet, University of Uppsala (EM-UU), The University Centre in Svalbard (UniS) a...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Kick-off meeting of the Circum-Arctic Present and Future Ecology of the Soil Food Web Network

Soil food webs play an important role in the functioning of Arctic ecosystems, but our knowledge of the distribution, dispersal and impacts of different organism groups is scarce. This project aims to gather experts on different aspects of the soil food web and its impacts, to paint an overview o...

Awarded: NOK 82,337

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

SBEP - Digital Twin of the Ocean for Arctic Fisheries

The ARCFISH project is developing a pilot Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) to support sustainable fisheries in the Arctic, a region where marine resources are vital to both local economies and ecosystems. As climate change reshapes ocean conditions and expands access to Arctic waters, there is an ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Arctic Ocean Stratigraphic Conference

The Arctic is currently undergoing the most dramatic climatic changes on Earth, with the Arctic Ocean rapidly moving towards a “blue” (summer sea ice free) state. To assess how a “blue” Arctic will respond to and drive an increasingly warmer future, in the absence of observational records, requir...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Optimisation of the Kongsfjorden Rijpfjorden Observatory Program

Over the past decades, the northward advancement of Atlantic water into the Arctic (Atlantification) has altered the Arctic marine systems surrounding Svalbard. On the western coast, fjords have largely remained ice-free since 2005, while annual ice cover and cold waters persist in northern fjord...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Interactive effects of pollutants and climate on seabirds in Arctic Coastal ecosystems (ClimACTox)

Pollutants can be harmful to wild animals. The damage depends on the levels, but can be worsened if animals are already under stress, for example from weather and climate events that increase energy use or reduce food availability. In addition, pollutants are not evenly distributed around the wor...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Integrating past evolution, adaptive capacity, and dispersal in population viability analysis under climate change

Climate change may threaten biodiversity, particularly in the Arctic, but our empirical understanding of its eco-evolutionary consequences is poor. One challenge has been to obtain and integrate data on demographic, genetic, and spatial processes in joint statistical modelling frameworks accounti...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Ecology of novel and Native salmonids In Svalbard fjords: harbingers of Changing climate and Ecosystem services in the Arctic (NICE)

Svalbard is at the frontier of climate change. The western fjords of Svalbard are now undergoing Atlantification, in which warmer Atlantic waters are being transported northward. Consequently, western Svalbard fjords are increasingly adopting colonizing species from the Atlantic Ocean. Among the ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Moving from field studies to ex vivo models for understanding and predicting toxicological responses to multiple stressors in marine mammals

Human activities are increasingly threatening biodiversity and ecosystems. One of the largest threats is chemical pollution. As marine predators, marine mammals can accumulate high levels of pollutants in their fat stores. In addition, they are also potentially affected by a range of other stress...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Development and evaluation of a model-based strategy to identify POP-like chemicals with a potential to accumulate on Svalbard

In 2001, a global agreement, the Stockholm Convention, was signed to protect humans and the environment from known persistent organic pollutants (POPs). POPs in food, humans and the environment have largely been discovered using advanced chemical analysis methods. A limitation of this method is ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Akershus

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

INSULATE: How above- and belowground biotic traits shape insulation of permafrost in a warming Arctic

The Arctic is underlain by vast areas of permafrost, holding tremendous amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in the soil beneath the active layer (the part of permafrost soils that thaw and refreeze over the summer season). In times of climate change and steadily rising temperatures, these gases w...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Svalbard

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Whales and polar bear in a petri dish: decoding marine mammal toxicology through in vitro and in silico approaches – Marma-detox

Large marine mammals, including polar bear and whales, fill important niches at high levels in marine and arctic food chains. Their high energy intake is often accompanied with elevated levels of contaminants having bioaccumulating and biomagnifying properties. Although receiving a lot of public ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

GoNorth - utforsking av Polhavet 2025-2035

GoNorth has its origins in the Continental Shelf Commission's 2009 UN acceptance of the Norwegian demand for an extended shelf in the high north. Knowledge of the shelf is currently limited. Because an extended shelf also entails management responsibility for the shelf’s available and potential r...

Awarded: NOK 0.83 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Forprosjekt for Framtidens Polhav

The eyes of the world are now fixed squarely towards the polar sea where the ice which for hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions, has covered the sea is now rapidly withering away as a consequence of global warming. In just a few decades the artic summer will be free from ice during par...

Awarded: NOK 0.99 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Using the past (& present) to predict the effects of changing food environment and temperature on Northeast Arctic cod in the Barents Sea.

Cod is a key species in the Barents Sea; it is arguably one of the most ecologically and economically important species in the North Atlantic. Despite the Northeast Arctic cod stock being in good condition as well as harvested sustainably, it is under threat from the effects of global climate cha...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

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