The 3D seismic enable a better understanding of phreatomagmatic activity that occurred at the Gjallar ridge in the Vøring basin, mid-Norway. Structures associated with this activity were imaged and a causality relationship was established. Those structures included hydrothermal vent complexes, sill complexes and faults. The Kai formation significantly affected by polygonal faulting that were likely ...

A large up-to-date compendium of integrated genomic data is often required for biological data analysis. The compendium can be tens of terabytes in size, and must often be frequently updated with new experimental or meta-data. Manual compendium update is cumbersome, requires a lot of unnecessary computation, and it may result in errors or inconsistencies in the compendium. We propose a transparent ...

A marine sediment core (JM09-KA11-GC) from the Kveithola Trough at the western Barents Sea margin has been investigated in order to reconstruct sub-surface temperatures and sea ice distribution at a sub-centennial resolution throughout the Holocene. The relationship between past variability of Atlantic water inflow and sea ice distribution has been established by measurement of planktic foraminifera, ...

Noreg har ein særeigen redningsteneste. Me har ein redningsteneste der mykje er tufta på dugnad og samvirke. Den seinare tida har fleire kritiske hendingar, både menneskeskapte og naturskapte, ramma Noreg. Terrorhendinga 22 juli 2011 førte til at samvirke har vorte nedfelt som eit prinsipp for den norske redningstenesta. Denne masteroppgåva ser på kva faktorar som kan fremja og hemma samvirke i ...

If disaster strikes, people who are nearby will very often contribute in the emergency response. Emergency responders will have to interact with unorganized volunteers. However, research on unorganized volunteers in emergencies has paid little attention on how to best utilize the average citizen. To contribute to better understanding of the interaction between actors present in emergencies we need ...

The aim of this PhD thesis is to deliver improved quantitative reconstructions of sub-surface temperatures, salinities and seasonal sea ice distribution. Additionally, the natural variability of Atlantic water inflow and seasonal sea ice distribution and possible forcing mechanisms such as solar insolation, atmospheric circulation patterns (e.g. North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)) and atmosphere-sea ...

Rising energy demands and a growing focus on sustainable development have made electricity production from wind energy an attractive alternative to fossil fuels. However the natural variability of wind makes it challenging to implement wind energy into the electrical grid. Accurate and reliable wind power predictions are seen as a key element for an increased penetration of wind energy. This ...

The machine learning method, Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), has lately been introduced for chlorophyll content mapping from remotely sensed data. It has been shown that GPR has outperformed other machine learning and empirical methods in accuracy, speed and stability. Moreover, GPR not only estimates the chlorophyll content, it also provides the certainty level of the prediction, allowing the ...

Norwegian fjords have a great potential for providing high-resolution sedimentary records that reflect local terrestrial and marine processes and therefore, fjords offer unique opportunities for the investigation of sedimentological and geochemical climatically induced processes. However, the complexity of fjord systems in terms of bathymetry and oceanography requires a profound knowledge of the ...

The hydrothermal Vannareid Cu-Zn mineralization is located on the island of Vanna, West Troms Basement Complex. It was discovered in 2008 and was subject of Store Norske Gull AS' exploration project in 2012. The mineralization is situated along the border between the Archean granitoid basement intruded by tholeiitic and calc-alkaline dykes, and the overlying Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks of ...