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SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

European coastal-shelf sea operational observing and forcastin system

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Tildelt: kr 0,57 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Response of tropical Atlantic surface and intermediate waters to changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - "RETRO"

Resolving tropical thermocline dynamics, and intermediate- and deep water variations will help elucidate the specific mechanisms linking the high and low latitude ocean. Variations driven by changes in MOC or through the ocean are best resolved with therm ocline, intermediate and deep waters prox...

Tildelt: kr 4,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Centre for Geobiology, CGB Deep Seafloor, Deep Biosphere & Roots of Life

The Centre for Geobiology (CGB), was established in 2007 as a Centre of Excellence (CoE) with funding from the Research Council of Norway?s (RCN?s) second CoE funding call. According to its original application, CGB?s goals were to - establish a new interdisciplinary field - Geobiology - at t...

Tildelt: kr 103,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Ressursnettverk for eForvaltning

Avdeling for forvaltningsinformatikk, Universitetet i Oslo søker, i samarbeid med Statskonsult, NTNU, SINTEF, Kompetansesenter for eForvaltning(KSeF), Høgskolen i Agder, Vestlandsforskning med flere, om støtte for utvikle et flerfaglig ressursnettverk inn en fagområdet eForvaltning; kort omtalt s...

Tildelt: kr 2,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Harvesting at lower trophic levels - stock assessment and ecological consequences

The demand for feed to the aquaculture industry has shown a strong increase over the last years in parallel with the increase in total production within the industry. Estimated growth in the fish farming industry is supposed to cause a permanent shortage of marine oils within a few years, and of ...

Tildelt: kr 11,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Arctic and sub-Arctic climate system and ecological response to the early 20th century warming - ARCWARM

This proposal will examine the climate changes, and the causes and ecological impacts of these changes in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions in the 20th century with focus on the early warming and cooling event (1920-1960). Time series of various climate p arameters and biological data including p...

Tildelt: kr 12,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

DEECON - Unravelling population connectivity for sustainable fisheries in the Deep Sea (EuroDEEP)

Over-exploitation of traditional coastal stocks has resulted in the shift of commercial harvesting towards less-known, deep-sea living resources in many parts of the world. Most of these "new" fisheries are now proving to be unsustainable. A key to our ab ility to manage these fisheries and prote...

Tildelt: kr 3,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Importance of climate and chemical composition of precipitation on distribution and behaviour of radiocaesium in terrestrial ecosy

Measurements of 137Cs in natural soils in Norway show that the residence time of the radionuclide in the organic-rich surface layer varies much between different parts of the country. Faster removal of Cs from the surface soil in coastal areas suggests th at Cs exchange with marine cations such a...

Tildelt: kr 1,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

DEMOSREG-Demokrati, styring og regional

Demokratisk styring i et flernivåsystem: Lokal oppfølging av nasjonal politikk i Norge

Demokratiet i en desentralisert nasjonalstat utspiller seg på flere nivåer; statlig, regionalt og kommunalt. I et slikt flernivå-demokrati oppstår spenninger mellom behovet for effektiv nasjonal styring og lokalpolitisk handlefrihet. På den ene siden er d esentralisering til lokal forvaltning men...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Reduced pesticide loads and risks in cropping system

Sustainable agriculture requires that soil, water and air quality are maintained. Pesticides have routinely been found in surface waters receiving agricultural runoff, particularly after heavy autumn/spring rainfall. There are practical ways to ensure tha t risks to the environment are minimized ...

Tildelt: kr 6,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Arctic Climate Change and Variability Connected to the Stratosphere

The aim of this proposal is to investigate the impact of climate change on stratospheric ozone recovery, using a state-of-the-art, coupled chemistry-climate model (CCM), and, in turn, to analyse the feedbacks of stratospheric ozone changes onto the climat e of the northern high latitudes. Simulat...

Tildelt: kr 6,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

DEMOSREG-Demokrati, styring og regional

Oljeøkonomiens geografi: utbyggingsregimer og regionale transformasjonsprosesser

Prosjektet vil analysere hvordan olje- og gassvirksomheten griper inn i og er med på å omdanne den nordlige regionen. Her møtes en etablert og global industri, som i økende grad opererer på kommersielle vilkår, og en ressursbasert periferiregion, som leng e har vært kjennetegnet ved fjernstyring ...

Tildelt: kr 5,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Effects of climate change on soil microarthropod diversity and ecological function

The arctic region is currently facing great environmental changes of greenhouse-gas warming, with likely strong consequences for structure of plant and animal communities and ecosystem processes. The rates of the biological processes are mediated by tempe rature, season length, temporal and spati...

Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

FORM-Formidling

Støtte til CICEROs informasjonsvirksomhet

CICEROs informasjonsvirksomhet er pålagt gjennom CICEROs vedtekter: "er å drive forskning, utredning, rådgivning og informasjon om klimarelaterte globale miljøspørsmål og internasjonal klimapolitikk med sikte på å fremskaffe kunnskap som kan bidra til å l øse det menneskeskapte klimaproblemet og ...

Tildelt: kr 1,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Witwatersrand Central Basin Mine Water Apportionment Pilot Study

NIVA and CGS are to embark on a pilot study to develop methodologies and techniques to determine ecological footprints and volumetric contributions for apportioning liability for sustainable management of pollution and water ingress into underground gold mine openings of the Witwatersrand Central...

Tildelt: kr 0,77 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Benthic biodiversity ? function and toxicology of selected key Arctic organisms

The proposed project is a cooperation network between the Norwegian institutes Akvaplan-niva and University Centre on Svalbard and the Russian institutes Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO) and Murmansk Marine B iological Institute (MMBI). The programm...

Tildelt: kr 0,59 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

An integrated study of stakeholders and living resources in relation to the potential effectiveness of MPAs as a management tool (MPAtool)

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a promising tool for preventing overexploitation of marine biological resources. However, there are still few MPAs in temperate waters. Encouraged by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, the Institute of Marine Researc h and local commercial fishers, four MPAs...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Assessment of current and future emissions of mercury from anthropogenic sources in South Africa

Mercury is one of the most important contaminants emitted to the atmosphere due to its toxic effects on the environment and human health, as well as its role in the chemistry of the atmosphere. Although substantial information has been collected on enviro nmental effects of mercury and its behavi...

Tildelt: kr 0,22 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Akershus

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Assessment of estuary dependency and management of two important fishery species

The dependency on critical habitats, such as estuaries, represents a bottleneck in the life-history of many exploited fishery species. The proposed project aims to assess the management implications of estuarine dependency in two important South African c oastal fishery species, spotted grunter (...

Tildelt: kr 0,95 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILGENHEL-Miljø, gener og helse

Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: Effects of noise or air pollution or both?

Since road traffic is a source of both air pollutants and noise, it is very important to disentangle the health effects of the two very different types of environmental exposures related to road traffic. There are indications that both noise and air pollu tion are associated with increased risk o...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Rights to uncultivated land and social change

The goal of the project is to describe and analyse issues of rights relating to uncultivated land in rural areas in Norway, including coastal areas, in the light of current social and economic changes and development needs in these areas. The main emphasi s is on different types of rights and org...

Tildelt: kr 3,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Dating human occupations and reconstructing the palaeoenvironment in the Middle Stone Age, southern Cape, South Africa

We present a research, networking and training programme centered on the archaeology of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the southern Cape region of South Africa. We believe this research will contribute significantly to present knowledge of the MSA in this region and enable fine tuning of current d...

Tildelt: kr 0,57 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Levels and Implications of Persistent Organic Pollutants and other contaminants in South Africa

The lack of knowledge concerning organic pollutants in South Africa, within the context of the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs, is the reason for the thrust of this application. The three partners, the Norwegian School for Veterinary Science (project ow ner), Norwegian Institute of Air Research...

Tildelt: kr 0,66 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessment of mixture toxicity of compounds in discharges to the North Sea and coastal areas of Norway

The North sea and coastal areas of Norway receive input of pollutants from various sources including disharges from land, maritime and offshore oil production activitites, leakage from contaminated sediments and long-range atmospheric transport. These com pounds exist as complex mixtures in the r...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Gobies and hake in the hypoxic waters of the Benguela up-welling current

Our aim is to investigate how the goby (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) and the shallow water hake (Merluccius capensis) cope with the hypoxic waters of the Benguela current. Both are key species of the ecosystem. They show a remarkable tolerance to the hypoxic conditions found in this up-welling area, ...

Tildelt: kr 0,85 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

The possible role of zooplankton in modulating ecosystem effects of acute oil spills in the Norwegian and Barents Seas.

The proposed project will study long-term effects of acute oil spills in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, focusing on the role of zooplankton. Zooplankton, constituting the food for e.g. herring, capelin and young cod, is central in the ecosystem; yet impo rtant questions remain unsolved. The over...

Tildelt: kr 3,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

The early stages of adaptive divergence: the speed of evolution

In this proposed project we will study processes during the early phase of adaptive divergence. Lesjaskogsvatnet was colonized by grayling Thymallus thymallus in 1880 and during 120 years more than 20 demes have been established. Owing to profound tempera ture differences among tributaries, we ex...

Tildelt: kr 3,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry: Education and Research

With extreme oceanographic variability over very short distances, the waters around South Africa provide a wealth of information on the mechanistic controls on marine biogeochemical variability. South African waters occupy a special niche in oceanography lying at the junction between western and ...

Tildelt: kr 0,66 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Vestland

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Springtail (Collembola) responses to changing, variable environments: a bi-polar approach linking individuals to ecosystems

The aim of this project is to investigate the way in which environmental variation cascades up through life history variation to effect species- and assemblage-level responses to habitat fragmentation and climate change. It builds on observations that cli mate change and habitat fragmentation are...

Tildelt: kr 0,55 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Metagenomics and Gene Discovery in Antarctic Terrestrial Habitats

We aim to use metagenomic methods to access portions of Antarctic low temperature crenarchaeotal genomes. Large insert metagenomic fosmid clones identified by colony hybridization with crenarchaeotal 16S rRNA gene probes will be sequenced and ORFs identif ied. The design of probes to terminal reg...

Tildelt: kr 0,75 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Vestland