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IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport - Norway

To address the above objectives, POLARCAT will carry out four major (and a few smaller) co-ordinated measurement campaigns in the Arctic. These will involve about 12 different aircraft (some involved in more than one mission), a ship, and all the major Ar ctic surface stations, for which long-ter...

Tildelt: kr 17,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Akershus

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...

Tildelt: kr 20,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 8,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Monitoring of Development in Traditional Indigenous Lands of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Northwestern Russia

Urfolkenes tradisjonelle landområder i Nenets autonome område opplever alvorlige miljøpåvirkninger gjennom moderne industriell utvikling. Tundra og reinbeite ødelegges eller forurenses i stor skala. Urfolkenes (nenetsernes og izhma-komiernes) tradisjonell e næringer og kulturelle overlevelse er t...

Tildelt: kr 1,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Sami diedalas aigecala: støtte til et samisk vitenskapelig tidsskrift. Samfinans m/Samisk program

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Tildelt: kr 0,51 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

NorClim - Climate of Norway and the Arctic in the 21st Century

NorClim responds to the need for identification and understanding of natural climate fluctuations in Norway and the Arctic (our region) by combining analyses of available instrumental data from land and the ocean for the past 50 to 100 years and unique hi gh-resolution time series for the last mi...

Tildelt: kr 59,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Økologisk restaurering etter naturinngrep. - Metoder for vegetasjonsetablering etter utbygging av kraft- og veganlegg

Naturområder som er ødelagt av inngrep eller forstyrrelse blir tradisjonelt oppfattet som "tapt". Ved å bruke kunnskapen som ligger i fagfeltet restaureringsøkologi kan slike områder istandsettes og få tilbake verdier og funksjoner som intakt natur. Energ iutvinning og samferdsel er to arealbaser...

Tildelt: kr 1,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Designing sustainable livestock production systems delivering cultural landscapes with public goods and ecosystem services

Agriculture in Norway is traditionally based on a high level of national support and payments. Policy changes, especially if the state support has to be reduced considerably, can lead to substantial changes regarding land use, the multi functionality of a griculture, cultural landscape qualities,...

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Interactions between eutrophication, oil and contaminants in marine ecosystems

Although there is much knowledge about environmental processes associated with environmental pressures such as eutrophication, oil and contaminants, there is limited understanding of how such pressures interact in their effects in marine ecosystems. This project aims to clarify interactions betwe...

Tildelt: kr 8,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate effects on planktonic food quality and trophic transfer in Arctic marginal ice zones (MIZ)

This project will investigate how increased light intensities, due to reduced ice concentrations and ice extent, affect timing, quantity and quality of primary and secondary production in the Arctic marginal ice zone (MIZ). The MIZ is the key productive a rea of Arctic shelf seas. The ongoing war...

Tildelt: kr 10,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Svalbard

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Climate change impact on catchment-coast processes and governance in the 21st Century

The aim of the project is to launch the exchange of research information on the environmental and economic changes in the coastal zone observed in Norway and on European scale. The parties to this exchange are the research community collaborating within t he IGBP/ IHDP Land Ocean Interactions in ...

Tildelt: kr 0,40 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Akershus

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...

Tildelt: kr 6,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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...

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

Bærekraftig utvikling av havområdene i nord. Muligheter og trusler.

Hovedaktiviteten bestått av to PhD prosjekt. Det første, "Third State Involvement in the Context of Establishing the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf" behandler prosessen med å fastsette yttergrensen for kontinentalsokkelen hvor denne strekker seg utover 200 nautiske mil fra kysten. Klarlegg...

Tildelt: kr 3,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2015

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian component of the Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Regions

The main goal of NESSAR is to quantify the impact of climate variability on the structure and function of marine ecosystems in the Nordic and Barents seas. This interdisciplinary program will mount intensive field studies of the physical and biological p rocesses at the Arctic Front in the Baren...

Tildelt: kr 20,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Natural and farmed habitat as a basis for production of red deer in Norway

The project will provide a basis to predict the potential for production of red deer based on detailed knowledge of the natural and farmed habitat as well as detailed studies of red deer habitat use in multiple areas. The yield of red deer reached 27600 i n 2005. Red deer thus constitute the 2nd ...

Tildelt: kr 9,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Molecular control of differentiation of multipotent stem cells in simple marine animals

The maintenance of stem cells and the regulation of their differentiation are still poorly understood. Interstitial stem cells are easily accessible in the simple animal Hydra and give rise to different neuronal cell fates, gametes and gland cells. In con trast, no interstitial stem cells have be...

Tildelt: kr 3,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Linking physics and biology - Structuring of cod-populations in the North Sea/Skagerrak water-system

We propose to study the physical and biological mechanisms that generate and maintain a highly genetically structured population of cod in the Skagerrak water system. We hypothesize that a combination of oceanographic features (i.e., within fjords water c irculation), spawning behavior (i.e. stro...

Tildelt: kr 6,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Diet and Reproductive Output in Arctic Molluscs: the Importance of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton (DREAM)

Algae that are associated with the arctic sea ice (ice algae) can constitute a significant fraction of total primary production, and play a fundamental role in polar ecosystems. The recently documented reduction of ice coverage may result in a significant shift in the relative contributions of i...

Tildelt: kr 0,87 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Recruitment study on North Sea fish stocks

Recruitment to several of the ecologically and commercially important fish stocks in the North Sea has been strongly reduced during the recent years, causing concern for fishers, managers and scientists alike. This includes herring, cod, haddock, sandeel, and Norway pout. We propose an applied a...

Tildelt: kr 7,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effects on Population Dynamical Key-Processes of a Changing Climate in Arctic Ecosystems

The present project aims at understanding and predicting how variations and changes in climate can affect key-processes that operate both on population dynamical and ecosystem level. More specifically, we will use long-term monitoring data on population d ynamics and population specific demograph...

Tildelt: kr 7,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Causes and consequences of a large-scale shift from sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) to ephemeral algae and implications for management

The SACCHARINA project is based on the dramatic decline in the sugar kelp forest along the coast of Southern Norway. The sugar kelp normally dominates the sea-bed at 2 to 15 m depth in sheltered coastal areas of the Norwegian coast. Surveys have found tha t the sugar kelp forests have disappeared...

Tildelt: kr 5,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Life history patterns in large carnivores and their application for management and conservation.

Life-history is an organism's pattern of growth, reproduction and mortality, formed by long-term evolutionary processes and by immediate responses to the environment. This project has 3 main objectives: 1) evaluate the patterns of lifetime reproductive su ccess of male and female brown bears; 2) ...

Tildelt: kr 2,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

The ecological and evolutionary significance of seed banks in Arabidopsis thaliana

Many studies of the genetic structuring of annual, selfing Arabidopsis thaliana populations on various geographical scales have been performed in recent years. Some studies conclude that local populations may contain relatively high amounts of genetic var iability both in phenotypic traits and pu...

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Expected Change in Fisheries in the Barents Sea

Project summary The project focuses on how changes in climate, i.e. increase in temperature, will influence fish stocks and their commercial stakeholders. Changes in fish distribution will not only affect the fisheries directly through changes in possibl e fishing areas, and changes in yield bec...

Tildelt: kr 9,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Ocean Prediction Networking

Our proposal seeks funds (1) to network Norwegian resources, (2) to implement a formal collaboration on the national level, and (3) to foster international collaboration within the field of ocean prediction. Reliable ocean state description and forecasts of, e.g., extreme currents and waves, ha...

Tildelt: kr 1,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

FRIMUF-Miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Project IBISCA Investigating the biodiversity of soil and canopy arthropods

Project summary Arthropods of tropical forests constitute the dominant component of biodiversity on Earth and are essential for structuring terrestrial ecosystems. This project represents the first attempt to compare arthropod species richness in the soil and understorey vs. canopy habitats of a...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Surveys, stable isotopes, satellites and salmon: exploring elements of the marine ecology of Barents Sea Salmo salar

Salmon rivers in northernmost Norway, Finland and the Kola peninsula (Russia), support important fisheries, both in coastal areas and in the rivers themselves, and contribute more than 50% of the world freshwater catch of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ). The River Tana, along with other impo...

Tildelt: kr 3,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Quotas as a management approach for sustainable harvesting of Atlantic salmon populations in rivers and bag-net fisheries in Norway.

Management of Atlantic salmon is moving towards using management targets (numbers of females left to spawn) as a tool for obtaining sustainable harvest and viable populations. To obtain the desired number of spawners, fishing pressure has to be determined before the start of the season. To use t...

Tildelt: kr 1,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage