Prosjekter

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• Polar bear circumpolar health assessment in relation to toxicants and climate changing

  Anthropogenic pollution and climate change are the two most significant threats for Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Because of food chain biomagnification of lipophilic persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the polar bear is one of the species which have the highest levels …

• The effect of predator control and climate on common eider populations in Svalbard

  Both down harvesting and climate can affect the populations of the common eider. Down harvesting is managed with so-called predator control. This means protecting the eiders while incubating the eggs, against the egg predators. …

• N-ICE2015: Sea ice

  Research Core observations will be regular mapping of the snow and ice cover thickness and physical properties at the study site. Both temporal and spatial aspects will be investigated.

• 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. …

• Interdisciplinary study of Arctic sea ice changes and impacts for the society (ID Arctic)

  Research Improving international scientific collaboration between Arctic sea ice scientists in Norway, Canada, and the USA, and facilitating work for the AMAP SWIPA follow up process.

• The effects on population dynamical key-processes of a changing climate in arctic ecosystems

  The present project aims at understanding and predicting how variations and changes in climate can affect key-processes that operate both on population dynamical and ecosystem level. …

• Marine ecosystem consequences of climate

  Education The overall goal of this project is to determine the influence of climate variability and change on the energy transfer in the marine pelagic ecosystem in different water masses on the west coast of Spitsbergen. …

• Satellite Remote Sensing of Atmosphere-Surface Systems and Ground Truth Measurements

  Education It is proposed to collect data for construction of (1) bio-optical models for coastal waters, (2) snow-ice optical property models, (3) aerosol optical property models, and (4) surface albedo models, and to use these models to further develop and improve satellite remote sensing tools that …

• Development of ocean climate during the last 20 000 years around Svalbard

  The aim of the project is to reconstruct the paleoceanographic development of the waters around Svalbard since 20 000 yrs BP. This will be done by studying a suit of marine sediment cores taken around Svalbard.