Fishing is a main activity in the Barents Sea. Improving fishing vessel trip planning is a feasible way to improve fishing efficiency, profitability, sustainability and at the same time reducing accidental risk from hazardous weather conditions and reducing environmental impact by reducing fuel consumption. Today, fishing trip planning and route optimization is all up to skippers`s experiences. ...

In an earlier reflection, we drew on our experiences, especially in Indigenous contexts, to consider how detachment connects with abstraction (Huru, Andersson & Wagner, 2023). We described abstraction as a process that attaches an idea to an experience—e.g., the realization that a line carved into a bone can represent a real thing, or five such lines, or the symbol 5 referring to the five lines. But ...

The Kåfjord area in northern Norway hosts numerous Cu deposits that were subjected to mining activities back in the nineteenth century. Relicts of the historical mining activity are still visible at several abandoned mines and associated mine waste disposal sites that may represent an environmental threat. The area was subjected to mining activities during the nineteenth century and abandoned mines ...

This master thesis examines the intricacies of fluid migration, gas seep areas, and fault dynamics in the southwestern Barents Sea. Acoustic evidence, such as pockmarks and gas flares, indicates active fluid movement within the below seabed sedimentary structures, such as clinoforms and the Upper Regional Unconformity (URU). Challenging lowermost reaches of gas chimneys, obscured by acoustic masking, ...

Sea-spray icing poses a significant risk to maritime operations in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, threatening the stability, safety, and efficiency of vessels and offshore structures. Current icing estimation models are constrained by limited data and are often tailored to specific vessels or structures. A critical challenge lies in accurately estimating spray flux, which is the amount of water ...

Uncertainty is commonly present in accelerated life test (ALT) data. The combination of a general log-linear model with a statistical distribution model—using the Weibull distribution in this paper—allows for addressing both multiple operational factors and uncertainty within a single model. This paper interprets the Weibull General Log-Linear (WGLL) model from the ALT perspective. Two parameter ...

It has been noted that a number of metaheuristics are applied with success to power system optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) challenges. These algorithms’ convergence rates are also determined to be low, and the results they provide are deemed to be inadequate. It suggests that there is insufficient investigation and exploitation in the algorithm. Therefore, an appropriate approach is needed ...

Accelerometers are increasingly used to observe human behavior such as physical activity under free-living conditions. An important prerequisite to obtain reliable results is the correct calibration of the sensors. However, accurate calibration is often neglected, leading to potentially biased results. Here, we demonstrate and quantify the effect of accelerometer miscalibration on the estimation of ...

Xenophyophores are large, agglutinated foraminifera that dominate the benthic megafauna in some parts of the deep sea. Here, we describe an assemblage of largely fragmentary specimens from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an area of the eastern abyssal Pacific hosting large, commercially significant deposits of polymetallic nodules. We recognised 18 morphospecies of which eight yielded DNA sequences. ...

When H₂O is present along grain boundaries, the deformation processes responsible for plasticity in silicate mineral aggregates can deviate from what may be conventionally expected. Although a necessary component of understanding crustal deformation processes, there is no theoretical framework that incorporates grain boundary processes into polycrystalline quartz rheology. To address this ...