Projects

37 matches

• Mass balance and flow dynamics of Austfonna

  This PhD project is a contribution to the IPY project GLACIODYN and focuses on the Austfonna ice cap on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. It aims at gaining knowledge of how a warming climate may change both surface processes and dynamic processes by combining multi-frequency radar measurements …

• Model of the thermal structure of a polythermal tidewater glacier

  Climatic changes cause changes in the glacier surface energy balance. They effect the hydro-thermal structure of glaciers. Main objective of the project is a model of the thermal structure of a polythermal tidewater glacier. …

• Norwegian-U.S. Scientific IPY Traverse of East Antarctica (2007-2009) (IPY Traverse)

  Research Joint Norwegian - U.S. scientific ground traverse in East Antarctica. The field expedition involved scientific investigations along two overland traverses: one going from the Troll Station in Dronning Maud Land to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2007-2008; and a return traverse by a …

• Multi frequency investigation of backscatter mechanisms within maritime glaciers

  A detailed glaciological study using GPR will be carried out with emphasis on a multi-frequency system operating at a L-, C-, and Ku-band. …

• Mass Balance of Svalbard Glaciers

  We are currently developing a spatially distributed numerical model that can be used to calculate the mass balance of Svalbard glaciers and ice caps in the past, and will be used to predict their changing mass balances and contributions to sea level change in the future. …

• Automatic weather stations and related glaciological field work at Kongsvegen and other glaciers

  Servicing and installing automatic weather stations on Ny-Ålesund mass balance glaciers.

• Calving of Arctic tidewater glaciers with reference to the climate regions.

  to be provided

• Monitoring (snow and) glacier ice properties from space: Towards an operational glacier monitoring system

  The aim of this project is to conduct research towards an operational glacier monitoring with satellite remote sensing. This involves continued research on existing problems, as well as the development of new methods. …

• Kunnskapsgrunnlaget for forvaltningsplanen Sentral-Spitsbergen

  Assessment Norsk Polarintistutt har i sitt tildelingsbrev for 2016 fra Klima - og miljødepartementet fått i oppdrag å lage kunnskapsgrunnlag for forvaltningsplanen Sentral-Spitsbergen. …

• Sensitivity of Svalbard glaciers to climate change (SvalGlac)

  Assessment The aim of SvalGlac research project, developed within the European Science Foundation PolarCLIMATE programme, is to estimate how changes in climate can affect the future mass balance of Svalbard glaciers and, consequently, its contribution to sea-level rise. …

• Glacial history of Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard

  The purpose of the project is to investigate the late quaternary glacial history of Prins Karls Forland and the oscillations of the Barents Sea ice sheet in the western margin of the Barents Sea area. …

• Marine environmental investigations in glacier influenced areas

  The multi-year variability of the sedimentation in Kongsfjorden is monitored using a sediment trap. The trap is programmed to change sample holders every 4 weeks. The trap is retrieved and overhauled every year.

• Physiological effects of plastic loading in northern fulmars, Fulmarus glacialis: A comparative study of colonies across a range of latitudes.

  The object of this master’s project is to assess the physiological impacts of plastic pollution on seabirds, by comparing differentially polluted populations of northern fulmars, Fulmarus glacialis, a bird known to regularly ingest marine plastics and to accumulate pollutants of high …

• Mass balance Ny-Ålesund glaciers

  NPI currently monitors mass balance on four glaciers in the Kongsfjorden area of north-western Spitsbergen, Svalbard (Fig. 1). They are: • Austre Brøggerbreen (BRG), with measurements from 1967. …

• Mass balance Austfonna

  Monitoring NPI and UiO currently monitor mass balance on Austfonna, Nordaustlandet

• Space borne measurements of Arctic Glaciers and implications for Sea Level (SPICE)

  The main goal of this research project is to develop a scheme in which satellite data of varying nature can be combined to give detailed information on the mass budget of ice caps. We will verify retrieval algorithms with in situ measurements. …

• Arctic climate system study of ocean, sea ice and glaciers interactions in Svalbard area (AWAKE2)

  Education Being a link land and ocean, Arctic fjords are highly vulnerable to warming and are expected to exhibit the earliest environmental changes resulting from anthropogenic impacts on climate. …

• Changes in glacier geometry and extent in Svalbard: implications for sea level rise in the 20th and 21st centuries

  The melt of small glaciers is making a substantive contribution to the rapid rise of global sea level. Climate change is predicted to have most effect on temperature in the Arctic, making glaciers in this region particularly vulnerable to melt. …

• Mass balance, dynamics, and climate of the central Dronning Maud Land coast, East Antarctica (MADICE)

  Assessment MADICE is an Indo-Norwegian research project co-funded by Research Council of Norway and Ministry of Earth Sciences, India. This project is investigating mass balance, dynamics and climate of the central Dronning Maud Land coast, East Antarctica. …

• Geoscience Atlas of Svalbard

  Education Geoscience Atlas of Svalbard is an outreach project that aims to provide information about geosciences in Svalbard to a broad group of potential users.

• Calving intensity of tidewater glaciers in NW Spitsbergen and its importance for contemporary evolution of glacier system

  Importance of glacier mass loss due to calving for rapid recession of tidewater glaciers observed recently will be studied. Tidewater glaciers in NW Spitsbergen are in focus of interest of the project (Kronebreen, Kongsvegen, Aavatsmarkbreen, Dahlbreen and additionally Comfortlessbreen). …

• The Biodiversity and fluxes in glacial arctic fjords (BIODAFF)

  Within the framework of BIODAFF, the current project will be undertaken in Kongsfjorden and other fjords on Svalbard. The objective of the project is to study how the biodiviersity of pelagic and benthic communities is structured by steep environmental stress gradients in salinity, …

• Terrestrial nutrient delivery from glacierised basins to high Arctic fjords

  We will examine the loading of critical, productivity-limiting nutrients in two glacierised basins: Austre Brøggerbreen and Midre Lovénbreen. In addition, runoff and nutrient transport from the two glacier basins will be monitored throughout the summer. …

• Ellasjøen, Bear Island - A mass balance study of a high contaminated Arctic area

  The overall objective of this work is to contribute significant new information to the understanding of contaminant pathways in the Arctic hydrosphere and to provide a better understanding of contaminant focusing in a sensitive polar environment. …

• How the biodiversity benthic communities is structured in an arctic glacial fjords (BIODAFF)

  The Project is conducted in Kongsfjorden, Ny-Ålesund. One object of the project is to study how the biodiversity of benthic hard-bottom communities is structured by steep environmental stress gradients in salinity, sedimentation etc. …

• Ice Rises: Evolution of ice rises during the late Holocene and implications for mass balance in the Antarctic coastal area

  Research The primary goal of this project is to elucidate the mass-balance history of the Fimbul ice shelf vicinity, western Dronning Maud Land, over the past several millennia. …

• TideWater Glaciers: function and importance for Arctic wildlife (TW-ICE)

  Research Tidewater glaciers creates a local arctic environment in front of the glacier. Glacier calving creates large and small icebergs that serve as platforms for resting seals. The icebergs together with the glacier front itself cools the seawater creating a local arctic environment. …

• How the biodiversity benthic communities is structured in an arctic glacial fjords (BIODAFF)

  The Project is conducted in Kongsfjorden, Ny-Ålesund. One object of the project is to study how the biodiversity of benthic hard-bottom communities is structured by steep environmental stress gradients in salinity, sedimentation etc. …

• Relations between glacier seismicity and glaciodynamical processes

  The study of icequakes due to release of stresses accumulated in ice and stress release at spring season. Radioechosounding profile research of structure of glaciers.

• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP)

  Assessment AMAP is mandated: • To monitor and assess the status of the Arctic region with respect to pollution and climate change issues. • To document levels and trends, pathways and processes, and effects on ecosystems and humans, and propose actions to reduce associated threats for consideration …

• Glacial history and paleoclimate, Northern Spitsbergen

  The project operates jointly with the geological mapping activities of the Norwegian Polar Institute. Two main purposes: 1. Increase knowledge about the extent of glacier ice during the last glaciation in the Northern Svalbard. 2. …

• Geometry changes of Svalbard glaciers during the last 10 years

  Over the past century, sea level has slowly risen. This is in part due to the addition of water to the oceans through either the melting of or the calving of icebergs from the world's land ice. …

• Parameterisation of snow and ice albedo in the ECHAM5 General Circulation Model (GCM).

  Research Snow and ice albedo is known to be crucial for heat exchange at high latitudes. Even so, the way snow and ice albedo is parameterised in GCMs today is strongly simplified. …

• Environmental monitoring of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (MOSJ)

  Monitoring Environmental monitoring of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (MOSJ) is an environmental monitoring system and part of the Government’s environmental monitoring in Norway. …

• The material balance and structure of selected rockglaciers on Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard

  Rockglaciers located on the northwestern coast of Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard, will be investigated to calculate their volume, form and surface changes during historical time, a.o. using Digital Elevation Models (DEM), generated based on photogrammetic and surveying methods. …

• Glacial history of Sjuøyane

  The purpose of the project is to get data on the late Quaternary glacial history of the Barents Sea ice sheet. Study objects on Sjuøyane are raised beaches, glacial landforms, stratigraphical sections in coastal outcrops. …

• Present and recent past glacier balances in Svalbard

  To estimate recent past net balances in accumulation areas by detection of dated radioactive layers on Kronebreen; to map its ablation area by detection of concentrated deposit at the surface. To carry out direct ablation measurements by stake reading. …