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SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Nestling diet variation in Arctic Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) through DNA-metabarcoding of fecal samples, RiS ID 2272

In my master’s thesis, I aim to elucidate the snow bunting nestling diet variation, both in regard to seasonal variation and between-year differences, based on nestling fecal samples. Comparing the diet composition with arthropod communities found in the field throughout the breeding season will ...

Tildelt: kr 98 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Early Diagenesis in coarse-grained siliciclastics capped by evaporites in Svalbard and East Greenland: Implications for Reservoir Potential.

This study aims to compare the local variations of early diagenesis of coarse-grained conglomerates overlain by gypsum evaporites using petrographic analysis, to examine whether there is a pattern in the diagenetic processes in this type of stratigraphic setting. The objective is to collect con...

Tildelt: kr 89 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Dark Veins of Spitsbergen: Interplay Between Ancient Vegetation and Coastal Geomorphology Exposed in the High Arctic Mines of LYB, Svalbard.

The study focuses on how coastal environments control or are controlled by vegetation distribution; collectively, these are particularly sensitive to climate change, with the geomorphology and position of the shoreline being closely linked with local hydrology and associated vegetation distributi...

Tildelt: kr 85 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Auroral emission intensities — from validation to prediction

Prosjektet har som mål å produsere og publisere et langvarig datasett med kalibrerte intensiteter av visuelle nordlysemissjoner på to ulike breddegrader, basert på optiske bakkemålinger. For å sikre høykvalitets intensitetsverdier for analysen, vil kun intensiteter knyttet til faktiske nordlyset ...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2029

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Measuring and Collecting Above-Ground Vegetation to Investigate Insulative Properties (RiS ID 12331)

Permafrost thaw could release significant greenhouse gases, making it crucial to understand factors that influence this process. Vegetation impacts permafrost temperatures, but we lack a clear framework for how specific plant traits regulate their insulative capacity. This project, part of INSULA...

Tildelt: kr 92 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Deploying GLOB, a novel multiface solar irradiance instrument next to the irradiance instrument park in Ny-Ålesund

This project involves deploying the GLOB system in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, to validate its ability to measure solar radiation, including both beam and diffuse irradiance, in Arctic conditions. GLOB is a unique, stand-alone instrument consisting of 25 pyranometers that capture solar irradiance acros...

Tildelt: kr 71 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Avalanche Lidar Early Response and Tracking System

This project aims to test the reliability and efficiency of data transmission from a mobile sensoric unit designed for monitoring environmental conditions in rough terrain. The sensoric unit, equipped with the advanced LiDAR sensor Livox AVIA and other sensors, will be deployed in the extreme con...

Tildelt: kr 63 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Drone-based monitoring of spatio-temporal snowpack characteristics in the high Arctic

Rapid climate change, with increasing winter warm spells and rainfall, has already altered Svalbard’s snowpack properties and is expected to further shorten the snow-covered period. Despite the far-reaching implications on the terrestrial ecosystem, critical knowledge gaps remain across disciplin...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The Seidfjellet Formation: A Window into Miocene Volcanism and Tectonics in NW Spitsbergen (RiS ID 12567)

In the Andrée Land fault block of northwestern Spitsbergen, partly glaciated mountain plateaus reveal remnants of Miocene (i.e., 23.03–5.3 Ma) basaltic lava flows that overlie Devonian sedimentary rocks, collectively referred to as the Seidfjellet Formation. The regional tectonic implication of t...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Geochemistry and geochronology of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province in Nordaust-Svalbard

This field campaign to Nordaust-Svalbard in 2025 will be a vital part of my PhD project. The aim of my PhD is to track the magmatic source of the Early Cretaceous High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP) on Svalbard, temporally and compositionally. Detailed sampling for geochemical and geochron...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The Effect of Belowground Biota and Soil Properties on Active Layer Depth

Soil ecosystems within the active layer may play a critical role in stabilizing permafrost in the High Arctic, yet its influence remains poorly understood. As climate change accelerates permafrost thaw, the stability of permafrost is increasingly influenced by biological drivers, including roots,...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Architecture and tectonostratigraphic development of the Late Carboniferous paleokarst systems, Billefjorden Trough, Svalbard

The extensive paleokarst systems within the Billefjorden Trough are preserved as horizontal stratiform breccias and vertical breccia pipes developed along uplifted fault blocks. The carbonate breccias occur in the late syn-rift and early post-rift deposits, particularly within the Minkinfjellet F...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Tracking Toxicants: Unveiling the Biogeochemical Fate of Toxic Metals and Organic Matter in Arctic Snow

This project deals with studying metals of environmental concern (like lead, cadmium, mercury, zinc, copper etc.) and natural organic matter (OM) present in snow samples from coastal areas in the Arctic region. The main objective is to increase the understanding of the properties and the role of ...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

ROV Mapping of Marine Terminating Glacier Fronts

The Arctic is transforming rapidly as glaciers melt and surge into the ocean, carrying with them historical records preserved in ice. While aerial surveys have provided insights from above, the submerged portions of marine-terminating glaciers remain largely uncharted. This project will address t...

Tildelt: kr 0,10 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The impact of the viscous-elastic properties on the long-term bearing capacity of sea ice

The study will progress through the following phases: literature review, cold lab experiments, small-scale model testing, and full-scale field testing. The literature review will examine the mechanical and thermal properties of sea ice, establishing a foundation for the experimental phases. Labo...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

AI-driven sensor placement for arctic weather forecasting

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing weather forecasting, outperforming traditional methods in various areas. However, AI-based weather prediction remains underexplored in the Arctic, a region where conventional forecasting often performs poorly. This project aims to improve Arctic wea...

Tildelt: kr 0,10 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

INSULATE: Bryophyte controls on permafrost thaw (RiS ID 12331)

Due to an enormous increase in anthropogenic emissions over the last decades the Earth's climate is changing. With an amplified effect in the arctic regions the landscape is rapidly degrading. Where the poles are known for the permafrost and ice cover, the increased global air - and sea temperatu...

Tildelt: kr 88 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

The structural evolution of pre-Devonian basement along the Billefjorden Fault Zone in Petuniabukta, Svalbard

The Billefjorden Fault Zone (BFZ) is a N-S striking regional-scale long-lived lineament cropping out in central Spitsbergen. This lineament exposes multi-deformational evolution that initiated with ductile deformation preserved in the metamorphic basement. Following several phases of brittle def...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Vegetation Impact on ThAw-depth progression in SvaLbard RiS ID: 12569

Svalbard is among the regions warming up fastest on earth. Where and to which extent the warming soils will impact the stability of the frozen soils remains uncertain. While the warming will speed up soil thaw over summer, the rate co-depends on surface conditions. For example, well-drained, vege...

Tildelt: kr 0,10 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2026

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Cryosphere Topographic Survey for Radar Altimetry Validation 2

This project addresses a critical gap in existing radar altimetry validation studies by targeting small, complex glaciers and ice caps—terrain underrepresented in existing datasets that focus on large, flat ice caps. Over the course of 14 field days based from Ny-Ålesund, Petuniabukta, and Longye...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Core based fracture experiments in Van Mijenfjorden to study the fracture mechanics of sea ice.

The project intends to perform fracture tests on Svalbard during spring 2025 in collaboration with the UNIS course AT-311/AT-811 as part of the COLDHUB project. The course includes five days (including travel from Longyearbyen to Sveagruva) of field work on the sea ice near Sveagruva. Travel to b...

Tildelt: kr 85 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Fjord Integrated CH4 Emissions

The Arctic region is experiencing climate change at a rate four times the global average. As a result, the environment is rapidly changing. The concern is that this could lead to a positive feedback loop in which higher temperatures lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions from Arctic landscape...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2026

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard Radar Snow Penetration Experiment

The project shall carry out a three part fieldwork campaign on Svalbard targeting quantification of K-band microwave penetration of radar signal into snow. The radar penetration is one of the most important knowledge gaps for the snow on sea ice thickness measurement of the future CRISTAL satelli...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Dispersal of Svalbard reindeer in a changing climate

Rapid climate change in Svalbard has already resulted in sea-ice loss, increased frequencies of rain-on-snow events, and icing of vegetation. The loss of sea ice reduces dispersal options while wintering herbivores are increasingly subject to potentially dispersal-triggering changes on land. Henc...

Tildelt: kr 90 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Isfjord Radio Sky-Camera for solar energy forecasting

Following a switch from coal to diesel in 2023, Longyearbyen is now working to implement a hybrid system using diesel, batteries, solar, and eventually wind. The project faces challenges from unpredictable Arctic weather, particularly clouds, which affect solar energy production. This project aim...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard’s lost biodiversity? Molecular study of the poorly known critters living inside sea ice

Sea ice is soon to become a lost habitat in Svalbard fjords within one or two decades, as the continued rise in winter temperatures may result in the complete absence of sea ice or its formation only during short periods.While sea ice’s importance to polar bears and seals is well-known, it also s...

Tildelt: kr 45 999

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Structural evolution of the Billefjorden Fault

Billefjorden Fault Zone (BFZ) in Spitsbergen is a north-south striking long-lived lineament that can be traced in the outcrops over 100 km distance (Harland et al., 1974; Haremo et al. 1990; Braathen et al., 2012; Bælum et al., 2012; Smyrak-Sikora et al., 2021). Multiple deformation events have s...

Tildelt: kr 0,12 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2025

Sted: Svalbard

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

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

Temperaturene i Arktis har steget nesten fire ganger raskere enn det globale gjennomsnittet de siste tiårene, noe som har ført til en rekke konsekvenser. Longyearbyen (LYR), den største bosetningen på Svalbard, er et ideelt sted å studere for å forstå disse effektene, da byen ligger i et hotspot ...

Tildelt: kr 11,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2025-2027

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Integrating wildlife and snow-ice expertise across the high Arctic

På den arktiske tundraen spiller snø- og isforhold en avgjørende rolle for om dyrebestandene trives eller går tilbake. Ettersom klimaendringene skjer raskest i Arktis, er det viktig å forstå sammenhengen mellom snøforhold og dyrebestander. Faktorer som snødybde, hardhet, tidspunktet for første sn...

Tildelt: kr 0,25 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2024-2026

Sted: Svalbard

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Merging ecological and evolutionary methods to understand adaptation to climate change in Svalbard’s tundra ecosystem

Klimaendringene medfører endringer i det miljøet som planter og dyr har tilpasset seg. Dette skjer særlig raskt i Arktis, og derfor er det viktig å studere og forstå hvordan arter påvirkes, både umiddelbart (for eksempel gjennom endringer i adferd, overlevelse og reproduksjon) og i det lange løp ...

Tildelt: kr 0,25 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2024-2026

Sted: Svalbard

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