This thesis focuses on the Barents Sea South East (BSSE), and the overall goal has been to investigate the regional upper Paleozoic development in the SE part of the Barents Sea. After more than four decades of negotiation between Norway and Russia, a delineation agreement came in effect in 2011. Today, the area known as BSSE is opened up for petroleum operations. As part of the opening of the BSSE, ...

Each winter the Climate-Ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT) project deploys a range of small devices to measure and monitor the climate changes that occur in the Arctic regions in an attempt to gain better understanding of how the changes are affecting the Arctic tundra ecosystems. The deployed devices are often limited in terms of energy and connectivity range. Due to this, researchers ...

The Sulitjelma deposits, Nordland, Northern Norway, with more than 20 Zn-Cu ore bodies (total tonnage excesses 35 Mt of ore at 1.84 % Cu, 0.86 % Zn, 10 g/t Ag and 0.25 g/t Au) have been described as a classic example of the Zn-Cu volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) mineralization. The mineralization is spatially associated with metamorphosed mafic rocks of Ordovician age. Both, ore bodies and their ...

The air:bit project is a computer science education project that we developed in 2016 for use in North-Norwegian upper secondary (videregående) schools. Students build and code their own air quality sensor kits (air:bits), before collecting air quality data in their local areas. They create their own air quality related research questions, which they answer by analyzing the collected air:bit data ...

Distributed Arctic Observatory (DAO) aims to automate, streamline and improve the collection, storage and analysis of images, video and weather measurements taken on the arctic tundra. Automating the process means that there are no human users that needs to be involved in the process. This leads to a loss of monitoring capabilities of the process. There are insufficient tools that allow the human ...

Vurdering av skredfare og sikringstiltak i Kåfjord kommune i Troms viste i 2012 at en driftsbygning ved Holmen i Kåfjorddalen var utsatt for steinsprang fra Oksfjellet. Det er registrert flere steinsprang i tillegg til bevegelser i et mindre fjellparti under toppen av Oksfjellet. Studieområdet over Holmen har dermed et unikt potensiale for å studere flere problemstillinger tilknyttet steinsprang. ...

The 3D geometrical evolution of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet (BSIS), particularly during its late-glacial retreat phase, remains largely ambiguous due to the paucity of direct marine- and terrestrial-based evidence constraining its horizontal and vertical extent and chronology. One way of validating the numerous BSIS reconstructions previously proposed is to collate and apply them under a wide range ...

Snow avalanches endangers human lives and infrastructure situated in alpine environments during the winter season. Occurrence of avalanche activity is a product of processes taking place in the snow cover situated in steep terrain, which are governed by meteorological conditions induced by synoptic weather patterns. Avalanche forecasting can therefore better forecast avalanche activity if they ...

This thesis focuses on the lake Nordlaguna on Jan Mayen. Nordlaguna is closed basin separated from the ocean by a barrier and surrounded by steep mountains and valleys. The lake has the potential to be a paleoclimatic archive and provide information about the unknown sea-level history of the island. When lake sediments are used in paleoclimatic studies, it is useful to acquire knowledge about the ...

The Ottar basin is not yet formally defined, but is a known structural element situated under the Bjarmeland Platform in the southwestern Barents Sea, buried beneath thick, flay-lying Mesozoic strata. This thesis focuses on delineating the informal upper Paleozoic Ottar basin. The delineation presented, is based on lateral/vertical variations in lithology and the surrounding tectonic setting of the ...