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MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN. Impact of environmental contaminants on smolt physiology, migration and marine survival in wild Atlantic salmon.

Pre-smolts will be exposed to environmentally relevant levels of contaminants known to occur in those Norwegian rivers supporting spawning populations of wild Atlantic salmon. The proposal will focus primarily on agricultural contaminants (pesticides), al though putative endocrine disrupters and ...

Tildelt: kr 1,00 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Building scenarios as a tool for dialogue, business development and management in protected coastal areas(Samfin. FHF-prosj.nr. 193846/I10)

There is a rich knowledge both nationally and internationally on e.g. restructuring of primary industries, business development, conservation, and conflicts in coastal zone management. However, still development and conservation objectives are not met in many areas due to profound conflicts and...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

BIGCO2 Phase II. CO2 Management Technologies for Future Power Generation.

The proposal represents the second phase of a knowledge building project (KMB), "BIGCO2. CO2 Management Technologies for Future Power Generation". It is a continuation of the first phase (2005-2006). The project is organized in eight specific tasks: Ta sk A: High temperature oxygen and hydroge...

Tildelt: kr 80,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Forskning, utvikling og demo av CO2-håndtering

Geological Storage of CO2: Mathematical Modelling and Risk Assessment

Storage of CO2 in deep geological formations is regarded as a promising option for mitigating climate changes caused by anthropogenic green-house gases. In this proposal we describe the formation of an international team of US, German and Norwegian invest igators and students to address fundament...

Tildelt: kr 16,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Reasons for opting out of certified organic production in Norway

The Norwegian government aims to achieve an organically managed area of 10% by 2010, as well as a 15% organic share of the total food production and consumption in Norway by 2015. Organic farming has developed rapidly since the early 1990's. From 1991 to 2005, the area of organically certified or...

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Recreational consumption as a market for farm based food and tourism businesses

Increasing leisure time increases the importance of leisure related consumption as compared to everyday consumption. Recreational consumption may therefore represent a potentially important market for developing small scale farm-based rural businesses. Lo cal attachment through relatives or secon...

Tildelt: kr 4,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Market orientated production of Norwegian greenhouse tomatoes

Quality parameters like taste, positive health impact, safety and freshness become more and more important to preserve and increase consumers preference for tomatoes. While 80% of the Norwegian population prefers Norwegian food, the percentage of Norwegia n tomatoes sold in our stores has been de...

Tildelt: kr 12,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Akershus

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Hydrogen production from natural gas in high-temperature membrane reactors: Advanced catalysis from atoms to processes

The project deals with a development of a catalyst system in a high temperature hydrogen permeable membrane reactor, enabling production of hydrogen and CO2 simultaneously from natural gas. The active, stable and cheap catalysts will be developed by new c atalyst design through the combination of...

Tildelt: kr 3,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Development and clinical testing of juice rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants

We will develop juice rich in natural antioxidants and phytochemicals and test bioactivity in clinical trials. Specifically, together with TINE R&D we aim at develop two juices based on grapes, pomegranates and/or blueberries. By screening potential ingre dients available on the marked we will op...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

5 - Antibiotics from the sea - isolation and characterization of novel compounds from cold-water benthic organisms(fortsetter som 184688)

The modern society relies on a continuous development of new drugs, either to replace older and less efficient drugs, or even more important, to address clinical needs that are unmet today. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in common hu man pathogenic bacteria has fuelled the n...

Tildelt: kr 0,75 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2008

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Automatic weed assessment for precision spraying in cereals

The load of herbicides on Norwegian cereals fields is unnecessarily high. The spraying represents an unnecessary cost for farmers, in Norway estimated to about 20 millions NOK yearly, and lots of herbicides superfluously spread to the environment. The mos t important reason for this excessive her...

Tildelt: kr 8,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Akershus

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

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Stability and mobility of Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages in clinical and environmental strains of Escherichia coli O103

E. coli O103 belongs to a subset of serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) associated with severe human illnesses. Shiga toxin (Stx) production is essential but not sufficient for virulence in pathogenic STEC as factors involved in att achment, haemolysis and iron scavenging a...

Tildelt: kr 3,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CRYOSLOPE - Monitoring, dating and modelling climate change effects on high arctic mountain slope processes and their impact on traffic ...

CRYOSLOPE Svablard will study how cold mountain slopes in Svalbard will respond to future projected climatic changes and how these potential changes could affect the traffic on the roads in the Longyearbyen settlement and the surrounding highly used winte r roads connecting the settlements and to...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Svalbard

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Enhanced service life of coated wooden facades

Coated wooden claddings are widely used in Norway. But competition from other materials that has less input of labour at the construction site and less demands for maintenance is increasing. Discolouring fungi on the surface of coated wood in outdoor appl ications is an increasing concern. The to...

Tildelt: kr 5,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Networks or markets? The recruitment challenges in future fisheries and marine industries, dr.gr.stip.

The radical changes that happen in coastal communities and industries;the processes of structuration, mechanisation, and increased governance, which we call cyborgisation processes, seem to have had consequences for the employment systems in marine commun ities. However, very little is known abou...

Tildelt: kr 4,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

The Impacts of Oil and Gas Activity on Peoples in the Arctic Using a Multiple Securities Perspective

GAPS Is a truly multidisciplinary project, where social AND natural scientists work together to provide a comphrehensive understanding of security in the Arctic. GAPS contains a series of related and integrated sub-projects that address security in the Ar ctic from different angles. Each sub-pro...

Tildelt: kr 6,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Adding product value to sustainable fisheries

The purpose of this project is to develop knowledge that can contribute to adding value to marine resources, to improve shortcomings in existing management regimes and to further develop theories on harvesting strategies that impact on adding value to mar ine resources. To face challenges in add...

Tildelt: kr 2,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

POLEWARD: A drifter experiment to quantify the poleward transport, transformation and spreading of oceanic properties

We propose to observe, describe and quantify the oceanic transport poleward and the transformation, spreading and mixing rates of water parcels in the Nordic and Barents Seas by monitoring the motion of the water parcels. In the process we will be quantif ying the mechanisms transforming the warm...

Tildelt: kr 7,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effect of Climate Change on Arctic High-Impact Weather Events (ArcChange)

We propose a coordinated Norwegian research project to study how meso-scale high impact weather in the arctic region of the North Atlantic will be affected by future climate change. The project aims at improving our understanding of the regional climate s ystem in the Arctic. The large scale obse...

Tildelt: kr 7,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

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

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Quantifying the Effects of Sediment Deposition, Compaction and Pore Fluid on Rock Properties and Seismic Signatures

Primary sediment compositon (provenance), depositional environments and mechanical and chemical compaction have strong impact on the physical and seismic properties of the subsurface. By trying to quantify relations between geological processes and geophy sical (seismic) parameters, we will incre...

Tildelt: kr 12,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

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

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Ocean Mixing in the Arctic: Case study at the North Pole Environmental Observatory

Ocean mixing plays a pivotal role in climate variability and change. Despite its importance, mixing is the most uncertain component of modern ocean general circulation models. Field measurements covering both the small (turbulent) scales and conventionall y measurable larger scales aid to underst...

Tildelt: kr 1,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2008

Sted: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian joint analysis and inter-calibration of climate observations and sensors within the IPY cluster project ARCDIV.NET

The Arctic climate is warming and its changes affect the whole physical climate system. The regional patterns of temperature, declining snow cover and increasing precipitation are modulated by natural modes of the atmospheric circulation. These are also k ey driving forces that govern arctic biot...

Tildelt: kr 0,84 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Påvirker avlsarbeidet for økt sjukdomsresistens forekomsten av vaksineskader, immunrespons og effekten av vaksinering ?

I de norske avlsprogrammene for laksefisk har det gjennom flere generasjoner blitt selektert for økt resistens mot infeksjonssjukdommene furunkulose og ILA og metoden, smittetest med uvaksinert presmolt, har blitt tatt i bruk for flere arter andre steder i verden. Det er vist at slik seleksjon øk...

Tildelt: kr 7,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

ONTOGENY OF LIPID DIGESTION AND EFFECTS OF FEEDING PRE-DIGESTED LIPIDS TO ATLANTIC COD (GADUS MORHUA) LARVAE

Lipids provide cod larvae with energy and essential fatty acids, the latter being structural components of biological membranes and precursors for the eicosanoids; signalling molecules which participate in regulation of a range of biological processes. Un til now, research on dietary lipids for m...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Vestland

GLOBHELS-Global helse

LAYVAC: Lay health worker programmes for vaccine uptake in low and middle income countries: Developing a global knowledge-base

Background: Lay health workers (LHWs), who carry out healthcare functions but have no professional healthcare qualifications, are used widely and have the potential to improve vaccination uptake in low and middle income countries (LMICs). However, data on their effects, cost-effectiveness and su...

Tildelt: kr 10,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Melk med forhøyet kvalitet som plattform for videre vekst

Melkeproduksjonen i Norge står for 45% av produksjonsverdien i husdyrbruket, mot 60% for 15 år siden. Lønnsomheten er under press. I områder med god tilgang på beite kan kostnadene reduseres betydelig ved å utnytte fôrressursene. Man tror at forbrukerne v il legge mer vekt på kvaliteten av melka,...

Tildelt: kr 9,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo