Larger fjords along the Norwegian coast are ice free all year due to the influence of warm Atlantic water, however, sea ice can form in the inner parts of fjords and in smaller fjord branches. While a wide breadth of work exists examining mainland Norwegian fjords often focused on water mass dynamics and their link to biological processes, little research has been conducted on specifically sea ice ...

Climate change is expected to alter the hydrological cycle in the Arctic, which would result in the increase in intensity and frequency of hydrological extreme events such as flooding. Noticeably, the changes in flooding due to climate change would severely affect human life, infrastructures, the environment, ecosystem, and socio-economic development in the impacted areas. Hydrological models are ...

Understanding the principles underlying autonomous navigation might be the most enticing quest the computational neuroscientist can undertake. Autonomous operation, also known as voluntary behavior, is the result of higher cognitive mechanisms and what is known as executive function in psychology. A rudimentary knowledge of the brain can explain where and to a certain degree how parts of a computation ...

Small rodents are some of the most important elements of boreal/arctic food webs, where they play essential functional roles. Their population dynamics are characterized by large amplitude multi-annual cycles regulated by direct and delayed density-dependence. These drastic variations in abundance have deep cascading effects into the whole ecosystem. Hence, the study boreal rodent population processes ...

A new, modern ionospheric radar, called EISCAT3D, is under construction in northern Fennoscandia. In the first stage, the radar will have three sites, one combined transmit/receiver site shouth of Skibotn, and receiver sites in Kaaresuvanto and Kaiseniemi. The radar will consist of large groups of dipole antennas that are steered by shifting the phase of the transmitted or received signal. The beam ...

Denne avhandlingen er basert på fire sedimentkjerner fra et område ved Vest Svalbard hvor metan siver opp fra havbunnen. Studien fokuserer på å rekonstruere graden av metanutsiving i fortiden, samt klimavariasjoner i Arktiske strøk med bruk av bentiske foraminiferer. Foraminiferer er encellede organismer som produserer en kalkholdig skall som bevares i sedimentene på havbunnen. Ved å se på geokjemiske ...

The Norwegian Barents Shelf (NBS) is an Arctic petroleum province with a complex geological history. Current geochemical work on oil discoveries in the region has identified Triassic mudstones as important petroleum source rocks. A review of the published literature found that several source rock-forming processes have been suggested as contributors to their formation. The aim of this thesis is thus ...

The cryosphere encompasses the seasonally and perennially frozen parts of the earth and its extent is both sensitive to and impacts upon the global climate through surface energy and moisture fluxes and feedbacks. The dynamics of ice and frozen ground also impact directly on, e.g., construction and maintenance of roads in cold regions or transportation across floating ice sheets. The aim of this ...

The Dom Feliciano Belt records the convergence between multiple South American and African cratonic bodies during the Neoproterozoic, and forms part of the larger South Atlantic Neoproterozoic Orogenic System (SANOS). Studying the evolution of the Dom Feliciano Belt allows the development of tectonic models spanning the time from pre-orogenic rifting to orogenesis, and the information recorded in ...

The Arctic marine realm is being transformed due to the anthropogenically-induced climate change. In the Arctic, the effects of climate change are intensified due to polar amplification and have led to processes in the ocean such as sea-ice retreat, ocean acidification and the increased presence of boreal species referred to as ‘Atlantification’. This thesis presents rare investigations of marine ...