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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Low Frequency acoustics - potentials and dangers for marine ecosystems applications (LowFreq)

The applicant, Lise Doksæter, is a PhD student under the project Low frequency acoustics: potentials and dangers for marine ecosystems application (LowFreq), at the institute of marine research (IMR). The main focus in her PhD project is to study the effe cts of low frequency sound on fish and ma...

Tildelt: kr 96 000

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Comparison of Marine Ecosystems of NORWAY and the US II (MENU II)

Marine ecosystems the world over are experiencing increasing natural and anthropogenic forcing that may cause substantial change to the structure and function of these ecosystems. Society has recognized that living marine resources require management in a broader ecosystem context. This proposal...

Tildelt: kr 5,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Remote sensing of mesoscale oceanic processes by acoustics and satellite sensors - a new approach to understanding of bio-physical coupling

Mesoscale eddies are important for the ocean circulation and are considered important for the open sea productivity. The basic processes behind are difficult to study and are vaguely understood mainly due to inadequate spatio-temporal coverage offered by traditional methodologies. Recent studies ...

Tildelt: kr 3,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2012

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Exploiting new wideband echo sounder technology for zooplankton characterization, sizing and abundance estimation

Marine zooplankton functions at many levels in ocean food webs, as consumers, producers and prey. They are major contributors to elemental cycling and vertical fluxes. Despite their central role and more than 100 year of research on these organisms, the M arine Zooplankton Colloquium 2(2001) conc...

Tildelt: kr 4,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

International workshop Indicator based methods to assess and map biological pollution in the coastal waters of Norway

The introduction of alien species in marine environments is a growing factor of disturbance that can be viewed as a pollution agent. Often the impact of alien species is interpreted as decline in ecological quality resulting from changes in biological, ch emical and physical properties of aquatic...

Tildelt: kr 74 999

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2010

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

MarinEra - Marine phylogeographic structuring during climate change: the signature of leading and rear edge of range shifting populations.

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Tildelt: kr 2,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2012

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

PhD studies at Massachutes Institute of Tecnology (MIT) for Lise Doksæter

The project Low frequency acoustics- potentials and dangers for low frequency acoustics (LowFreq) (project number 184705, application number ES425816) was founded by the Norwegian Research Council in 2007. This project has a twofold aim; 1) testing the ef fect of low frequency, military sonars on...

Tildelt: kr 55 999

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Fishermen behvior with individual vessel quotas

During the last decade there have been a number of changes in the management of Norwegians fisheries resources. Individual vessel quotas have been introduced in most fisheries, and different programs have also enabled limited transferability of quota. Thi s has led to a number of new opportunitie...

Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2013

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Overseas Doctoral fellowship in fisheries management(del av prosjekt 173476))

The main objective of this fellowship is to apply the generic model of harvest control rules to a case study (Georges Bank haddock) and to interpret end disseminate the results for scientists and managers. This collaboration work will result in the fourth and final of Dorothy?s PhD thesis (worki...

Tildelt: kr 53 999

Prosjektperiode: 2009-2009

Sted: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

SEAPOP

SEAPOP er et nasjonalt program som styrker og samordner oppbyggingen av kunnskap om sjøfugl i norske farvann: Bestandene kartlegges i et rullerende system, og deres utvikling og demografi overvåkes på et nettverk av lokaliteter. Parallelt med dette utføres studier som belyser sjøfuglenes økologis...

Tildelt: kr 64,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2024

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - PhD-exchange for Hilde Cecilie Trannum

At Laboratoire d'Océanologie Biologique de Banyuls there has been developed a new experimental approach to measure sediment reworking rates in two dimensions with a high degree of time resolution. The technique is based on thin aquaria, luminophores, time lapse photography and image analysis. We...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2008

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessing the marine fish diversity of Jan Mayen and adjacent waters towards the 2010 Norwegian Red List

The recent version of the Norwegian Red List was published in 2006. Jan Mayen and its adjacent waters is the only Norwegian Territory in the Northern Hemisphere which is not included. An update of the Norwegian Red List is due in 2010, with the aim to inc lude also the area around Jan Mayen. Lit...

Tildelt: kr 0,32 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2009

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Modeling benthic consumption, advection, and carbon subsidies in the Barents Sea

Benthic communities play important roles in the processing of organic carbon on Arctic shelves. These roles affect nutrient availability for phytoplankton; food supply for benthic-feeding fish, seabirds, and mammals; and long-term storage of carbon in sed iments. The dynamic nature and pronounced...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

"Nutrient tunnelling" and other alternative pathways for mineral nutrients through the microbial food web to copepods.

For more than a century, one of the fundamental challenges in marine sciences has been to understand the structure and function of pelagic food webs. During the past two decades, with the recognition of the importance of microorganisms, much of this resea rch has been directed towards understandi...

Tildelt: kr 3,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Vestland

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Viral lysis and programmed cell death in marine phytoplankton

Phytoplankton, accounting for less than 1% of the Earth´s biomass but almost 50% of annual marine net primary production, plays a critical role in global carbon cycling. Mechanisms that control their mortality are, however, still poorly understood, and th e current project, VIPMAP, seek to genera...

Tildelt: kr 4,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Tidally-induced turbulent mixing in a silled fjord

Essential regions of the marine ecosystems along the coast of Norway are situated inside fjords. Further, a large number of aquaculture facilities are found in fjords, and fjords make up a recreational area for millions of Norwegians. With a few exceptio ns, Norwegian fjords include a sill near ...

Tildelt: kr 4,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Habitat restoration in overgrazed areas on the northern Norwegian coast

The principal objective is to test the hypotheses that former kelp forests that were grazed by sea urchins can be restored by artificially re-introduce three-dimensional habitats. This may promote colonisation of sea urchin predators that may reduce recru itment of sea urchin populations and indu...

Tildelt: kr 5,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2014

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Low-frequency acoustics - potentials and dangers for marine ecosystem application

Low frequency acoustics from hundreds of Hz to 10 kHz includes the range for Navy sonars and have recently been tested assessing the distribution, density, and behaviour of pelagic fish. These frequencies are within the hearing range of fish and marine ma mmals. Operation at these frequencies may...

Tildelt: kr 3,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2010

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Survey Methods for Abundance Estimation of Sandeel (Ammodytes marinus) Stocks

Sandeels are small eel-like fish that is laterally compressed and without swimbladder that swim in large shoals and inhabit areas with specific sandy substrate into which they burrow. Sandeels are distributed in coastal and shallow open-ocean waters throu ghout the North Sea, but the geographical...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2011

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Antibiotics from the sea - a MabCent project

The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in human pathogenic bacteria has fuelled the need for new antimicrobial compounds and new antibacterial strategies. Marine invertebrates represent a vast resource for discovering novel pharmaceutical co mpounds. Animals living in the Arctic Sea...

Tildelt: kr 7,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2013

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

KelpPredict: Kelp community structure and function; analysing interactions and developing models along multiple exposure gradients

The Laminaria hyperborea kelp forests and its associated biodiversity are under pressure by kelp trawling, grazing by sea urchins, changing climate (storms) and pollutions (eutrophication). These pressures are related to exposure gradients, e.g. sea urchi n grazing is found in the more sheltered ...

Tildelt: kr 2,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Oslo

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

The population biology and ecology of the world's northernmost harbour seals in a changing Arctic

"The population biology and ecology of the world's northernmost harbour seals in a changing Arctic" har vært et svært produktivt forskningsprogram. Steinkobbe på Svalbard er en unik genetisk bestand som har vært isolert fra andre bestander i rundt 1000 år. Den har vært gjennom en såkalt genetisk ...

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Development of genetic markers for population biology studies of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus L)

The Northeast Atlantic Mackerel supports one of the most valuable European fisheries producing up to 700000 tonnes per year. Historically the Northeast Atlantic mackerel stock has been split into three spawning components, a western, a southern and a Nort h Sea component. Prior studies have demo...

Tildelt: kr 0,78 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2010

Sted: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 - The World Ocean in Globalization: Challenges for marine regions - international conference

Following on the adoption of the UN Law of the Sea Convention in December 1982, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) co-organized in 1983 a conference with the Law of the Sea Institute, held in Oslo. A decade later, in November 1994 the Law of the Sea Conv ention entered into force. To discuss ear...

Tildelt: kr 0,20 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2008

Sted: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Marine Ecosystem Response to a Changing Climate

The climate of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans will undergo rapid changes over the next century. Climate influences many important ecosystem drivers which will change marine biogeochemical and ecological processes, ecosystem functioning and biodivers ity. MERCLIM will provide critical new un...

Tildelt: kr 15,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2012

Sted: Vestland

UTRED-Utredning

Risk assessment and monitoring of existing and emerging new chemicals in the European marine and coastal environment

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Tildelt: kr 0,77 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

INDIVIDUAL BASED STATISTICAL METHODS FOR DNA-PROFILES WITH APPLICATION TO MANAGEMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES

Genetic methods are important tools for identifying population structure, and hence form an important part of modern schemes for management of marine resources. Traditional analysis techniques are typically based on a measure of differences in allele freq uencies between sub-areas, and may have l...

Tildelt: kr 2,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

7 -Marine Environment Protection and Resource Management: The Changing Legal and Policy Framework for the Adriatic Sea - Overseas Fellowship

The marine and coastal areas and resources, and their sustainable development, are of high importance for both Norway and Croatia. In Croatia, various marine-related issues have in recent years occupied an increasingly important place. To suport an inform ed policy-making and public debate, there...

Tildelt: kr 0,28 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2008

Sted: Akershus

TU-Tungt utstyr

Marin partikkelanalyse

Forskningsgruppens overordnede målsetting er å forstå hvordan den mikrobielle delen av næringskjeden i havet (planteplankton, protozoer, bakterier og virus) fungerer som system. I dette inngår som en langsiktig strategi å bygge opp en avansert instrumentp ark for utforskning av den "usynlige", de...

Tildelt: kr 1,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2008

Sted: Vestland

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

Resolving Conflicting Interests in Oceans Management: The Law and Politics of Integrated Oceans management in the Barents Sea.

This project addresses a critical issue in Norway?s marine policy: the implementation of the comprehensive management plan for the Barents Sea. Amidst considerable controversy, the plan was adopted in March March 2006. The project aims at understanding th e preconditions for effective implementat...

Tildelt: kr 4,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2016

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa