SHORT HISTORY AND MILESTONES OF THE TRANSPORT AND EFFECT PROGRAMMES (RESEARH PHASE: 1998 - 2004)

16.10.95
The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment asks NP to lead two working groups with the purpose of developing proposals for research on:

• "Transport and fate of contaminants in the northern seas" and

• "Effects of contaminants in northern food-webs"

11.09.96
Proposal for the transport and fate-programme delivered to the Ministry of Environment

24.3.97
Proposal for the effect-programme delivered to the Ministry of Environment

28.4.97
The Ministry asks NP to co-ordinate further work on the programmes and make an application with a proposed budget and schedule with two phases.

30.5.97
NP sends the application to The Ministry of Environment and to The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Total budget in the application: 19 mill. NoK for the Transport-programme and 18,3 for the Effects programme

12.2.98
Reply from The Ministry of Environment with an allocation of 1,8 mill. NoK to the Transport-programme and 1,6 mill. NoK to the Effects programme. The letter also contains conditions on the use of money and organisation of the programmes.

23.2.98
Reply from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an allocation of 4,2 mill. NoK to the Transport-programme and 3,4 mill. NoK to the Effects programme.

March 1998
NP starts the administrative work on the management of the programmes

17.4.98
Statutory meeting in a common steering group for the two programmes.

13./15.7.98
Call for proposals sent to selected institutions

7. – 8.10.98
Final evaluation of the proposals in the Scientific advisory group

12. – 13.10.98
First allocation of money from the steering group..

October 98 – april 99
The first projects starts their work in autumn.
Elaboration and evaluation of improved proposals for the last projects, signing of contracts.
 

14. – 16.5.99
AMAP-seminar on modelling in Bergen, sponsored by the Transport-programme. 
 

29.10.99

Application to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Environment on phase 2

21.11 - 22.11.00

Conference in Tromsø summarising the results from phase 1

March-april 01:

Allocation of 1 mill. NOK from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs  and 1 mill. NOK from the Ministry of Environment to phase 2

June 01:

Start of two integrated projects for phase 2:

• Advice on monitoring of polar bear, glaucus gull and arctic charr

• Advice on location and sampling strategies for monitoring in the abiotic environment

Autumn 2004:

Termination of the projects from phase 2.

Management of the Transport- and Effects-programme

Steering group: 

• Christopher Brodersen, Norwegian Polar Institute (chair)

• Per Strand, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority

• Else Løbersli, Directorate of Nature Management (replacing Kikke Bøgseth)

• Gunnar Futsæter, Norwegian Pollution Control Authority

Co-ordinator:

• Programme co-ordinator: Gunnar Sander, Environmental Management Department, Norwegian Polar Institute

Scientific reference group phase 1:

• Stig Falk-Petersen, Norwegian Polar Institute (chair)

• Harald Loeng, Institute of Marine Resources

• Arne Foldvik, University of Bergen

• Geir Wing Gabrielsen, Norwegian Polar Institute

• Anne Liv Rudjord, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority

• Bjørn Munro Jenssen, NTNU

In the initial evaluation of proposals and selection of projects for phase 1, the following scientists also participated:

• Lars Petter Røed, DNMI 

• Roger Colony, ACSYS 

• Vladimir Pavlov, AARI 

• Alexander Nikitin, SPA "Typhoon" 

• Arne Bjørge, NINA 

Scientific advisors, phase 2:

• Bjørn Munro Jensen

• Arne Foldvik

Allocation of funds to the Transport- and Effects programmes phase 1 
(million NOK)

Allocation of funds to the Transport- and Effects programmes phase 2 
(million NOK)

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