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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Snow Drift and Avalanche Hazard in the high-arctic maritime snow climate of Svalbard, Norway; RiS ID 10057

This project aims to understand and characterize the redistribution and movement of snow drift in the unique high-arctic maritime snow climate of Svalbard, Norway and its associated effects on avalanche activity on the island while also developing a plan for passive snow mitigation strategies for...

Tildelt: kr 23 016

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Holocene history of Svalbard ice caps and glaciers: geomorphological mapping of the forefield of Nordenskiöldbreen, RiS ID 10122

A better understanding of the Svalbard glaciers advance and retreat during the Holocene can be used as an analogue for a warming climate. A holistic approach will be taken focusing on Nordenskiöldbreen, Billefjorden, where surveys of high-resolution swath bathymetry and terrestrial archives will ...

Tildelt: kr 18 635

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2016

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Disentangling weathering processes and rates and their response to climate change in the Arctic (RiS 10010)

Rock weathering is one of the main drivers of landscape development. It is highly susceptible to environmental changes such as temperature fluctuations, moisture availability (e.g. through precipitation and groundwater) and land cover changes such as glacial retreat. In addition, it is responsibl...

Tildelt: kr 48 265

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2016

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Glacial dynamics of the fjords on the east coast of Spitsbergen inferred from submarine morphology and marine sediment cores

The environmental conditions of west and east Svalbard are very different in terms of weather, sea ice, climate and most likely also in terms of glacial/deglacial history. The glacial history of the fjords on western Svalbard has been relatively well studied, but the glacial history of the fjords...

Tildelt: kr 24 853

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Response of arctic bivalves to climate-induced changes in Kongsfjorden, RIS ID:10118

Individuals of the bivalve Astarte borealis (Schumacher, 1817) were marked and released in an enclosed area in 2012 and will be re-collected in September 2015. After thats, morphological analyses, as well as high-resolution samplings of shell carbonate by means of a MicroMill sampler for subseque...

Tildelt: kr 2 199

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Geochemical exploration of submarine seeps in Grønfjorden, Svalbard. RiS ID 10080

Submarine pockmarks are widespread features on continental margins and represent potential pathways for large quantities of a strong greenhouse gas, methane, escaping from subsurface sediments. Pockmarks in southern and northern Grønfjorden, Svalbard have been described previously by Forwick et a...

Tildelt: kr 24 660

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2016

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Comparative analysis of human impact on the environment in Arctic settlements Longyearbyen and Barentsburg (Svalbard)

Longyearbyen and Barentsburg are exclusive examples of settlements with industrial development in the Arctic. Above all it is two existing coal mining centers. The research is devoted to evaluating of environmental impact from coal mining industry on the Arctic landscapes in Longyearbyen and Bare...

Tildelt: kr 33 999

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2016

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Determine the snow cover distribution of a High Arctic area using UAV, digital photogrammetry and numerical simulation (sub-project 3).

This project aims at combining different methods to determine the depth distribution and characteristics of the snow cover of a High Arctic area by mean of UAV, digital photogrammetry and numerical modellling. The success of this technology in High Arctic region could lead to simple, affordable a...

Tildelt: kr 39 559

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2016

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Speleological investigation of englacial structures found in Svalbard polythermal glaciers, RiS ID 10061

This study aims to employ speleological techniques to directly observed englacial structures in polythermal glaciers, an approach that has several distinct advantages over surface and borehole structural investigations. Meltwater conduits incise into an ice mass creating vertical sections that ac...

Tildelt: kr 18 231

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Combined sedimentology and permafrost studies of two high-Arctic valleys: Adventdalen and Sassendalen, Svalbard, Ris ID 10103

This project aims to develop an environmental reconstruction of permafrost and sedimentary conditions in both Adventdalen and Sassendalen. This will be determined using cryostratigraphic and sedimentary evidence from cores obtained from various locations in the valley bottoms. Results of these ...

Tildelt: kr 54 999

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2016

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Determine the snow cover distribution of a High Arctic area using UAV, digital photogrammetry and numerical simulation (Sub-project 1)

Tildelt: kr 33 175

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2016

Sted: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Multi-Instrument Studies of High Latitude Atmospheric Turbulence and Wave Processes

Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) bølger i Jordas geomagnetiske felt er signaturer på erergioverføring fra sola og solvinden til jordas øvre atmosfære. Ved å overvåke karakteristikk og plassering av bølger fra instrumenter som magnetometer, optiske instrumenter og radarer på jordens overflate, er det mu...

Tildelt: kr 0,69 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2022

Sted: Svalbard

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

More than methane: quantifying melt-driven biogas production and nutrient export from Eurasian Arctic lowland permafrost

Karbonlagre i arktisk permafrost er sårbare ved klimaendring. Ny forskning har vist at økt mineralisering av karbon i jorden under oksiske forhold (som favoriserer CO2 produksjon) i stedet for under anoksiske forhold (som favoriserer CH4 produksjon), representerer de viktigste forsterkere av klim...

Tildelt: kr 2,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2018

Sted: Svalbard

NORRUSS-Nordområdene og Russland

Field studies and modelling of sea state, drift ice, ice actions and methods of icebergs management on the Arctic shelf

Design av offshore konstruksjoner og transport infrastruktur som tåler is planlegges for utviklingen av flere felter for olje og gass i den norske og russiske delen av Barentshavet. Vitenskapelig samarbeid mellom Norge og Russland skaper nødvendig grunnlag for sikkerhet og høgt teknologisk nivå p...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2015-2018

Sted: Svalbard

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

EU Marie Curie ITN GLANAM UNIS Top-financing

At the last glacial maximum (LGM), the Barents Sea-Svalbard region was covered by a marine-based ice sheet (the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet; SBIS) that extended from Svalbard in the northwest to Scandinavia in the south, and to the Novaya Zemlya in the east (Svendsen et al., 2004). This ice sh...

Tildelt: kr 0,73 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2017

Sted: Svalbard

FINNUT-Forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

From teaching to learning: how to successfully redesign university-level biology courses to increase quality and learning out-come

The Arctic Biology Department (AB) at The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is part of a new centre for excellence in education: bioCEED, and a partner in a newly funded Knowledge-building project (PRIME) within the FINNUT call from NFR, where the over all goal is to improve the quality of hig...

Tildelt: kr 0,11 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Sensitivity of vision in high Arctic krill to light and temperature change

A consequence of climate change in Arctic waters coincident with sea ice loss is likely to be an increase in light transmitted through the water column during the polar night. This period of the year, when the sun remains below the horizon throughout the diel cycle, has long been assumed to hav...

Tildelt: kr 83 999

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Outcrop-scale faults and micro-structures affecting the LYB C02 Reservoir

Extensive water injection tests in the Longyearbyen C02 reservoir show the presence of flow barriers. The most likely cause is the presence of impermeable faults too small to be imaged by seismics. This proposed study will take a closer look at these faul ts and investigate their influences on fl...

Tildelt: kr 7 403

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Detailed mapping of the active layer and top permafrost potential carbon release in central Svalbard. RiS ID:6650

The overall main objectives of the present work are to: (1) Investigate high potential SOC (soil organic carbon) areas where little data is available about permafrost and active layer carbon storage/release. Sites will be selected according to aerial pict ures study in landforms containing high a...

Tildelt: kr 30 013

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Holocene environmental change of Svalbard

We will analyse the Holocene environmental history in Kongsfjorden since deglaciation. At least three Ny-Ålesund flagships have identified the need for long-term climate records. Up to date no integrated temperature, precipitation or glacial variability r ecord exists for the entire Holocene for ...

Tildelt: kr 0,40 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Detailed mapping of the active layer and top permafrost organic carbon pool and potential carbon release in central Svalbard

In order to investigate spatial distribution and size of permafrost soil carbon pools in central Svalbard, soil samples will be taken in spring 2014. Data from earlier fieldwork (2013) is available to be combined into a detailed map of carbon pools for th e area, which has not been done before. T...

Tildelt: kr 52 999

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Fertilisation and carbon sequestration on tundra heath RiS ID 6598

This project will investigate the impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisation on carbon storage and nitrogen fixation in tundra heath by revisiting a long term experiment established at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, in 1991. I will investigate the mechanisms by which, after almost two decades: (1) ...

Tildelt: kr 37 999

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2014

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

DVM of zooplankton in the polar night: who, how and why? RiS ID 6575

In recent years, research carried out in the Svalbard archipelago has challenged the long-lasting paradigm of dormant ecosystems during the polar night at high latitudes due to low food availability and lack of light. Based on data collected with acoustic instruments moored in the water column o...

Tildelt: kr 39 999

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Fracturing and weathering in basement of the Billefjorden Trough, an analogue to top basement reservoirs

The study will concern a basement reservoir analogue in Billefjorden, Svalbard. The fundamental questions are: How is the fracture system in the basement around the Carboniferous Billefjorden Trough? How is the weathering profile in terms of thickness , intensity and mineralogy in this area?

Tildelt: kr 30 999

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2014

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Seasonal dynamics of nitrogen cycling communities associated with Oxyria digyna

My PhD thesis focuses on the diversity and functioning of microbial communities associated with an arcto-alpine plant Oxyria digyna, common in pioneer plant communities. O. digyna harbours a diverse and partially plant specific bacterial community, and in our previous study, we identified severa...

Tildelt: kr 17 780

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Layer parallel shortening and cataclastic flow by fractures in the Permian Kapp Starostin Formation, Mediumfjellet, Spitsbergen

The thesis addresses three fundamental questions related to fold-thrust belts of relevance to reservoir and cap rock studies; i. Can a link between LPS and small-scale fracture systems reflecting folding of layers by cataclastic flow (in line with Ismat and Mitra, 2005) within a pseudo-mechani...

Tildelt: kr 31 600

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Meiofauna Composition and Distribution: A Pan-Arctic Comparison

Sea ice is a unique medium composed of a solid ice matrix permeated by an extensive brine channel system. This channel system is host to a community of ice associated (sympagic) microbes, algae and invertebrates. Given the understudied nature of sea ice o rganisms, many sympagic organisms lack ta...

Tildelt: kr 35 999

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2016

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Turnover of trophic markers and lipid carbon in distinct Arctic marine food webs, RIS ID 6668

In a context of sea ice decrease in the Arctic, this PhD project focuses on a combination of field and laboratory investigations to improve the understanding of the basic lipid metabolism and physiological adaptations of distinct Arctic food webs. One of the main focuses of this project is the ...

Tildelt: kr 69 721

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Spatial variability of snow and avalanche conditions along a climatic gradient in Central Spitsbergen

This project will study the regional variability of snow conditions around Longyearbyen and how the regional conditions influence snow avalanche potentials. The fieldwork will run over one winter season (January to May, 2014) and will be the basis for an MSc thesis in Physical Geography. System...

Tildelt: kr 12 999

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Calving and Surging Glaciers: Observations, Modelling, Predictions

Calving and surging are both complex dynamic phenomena that exert strong controls of the flux of ice into the oceans. Calving - the breakaway of icebergs from glaciers into the sea - accounts for a large proportion of ice flux from Arctic glaciers and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and ...

Tildelt: kr 0,17 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2014-2015

Sted: Svalbard

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