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August 2023 PolarFront cruise team in front of the research vessel Helmer Hanssen. Frida Cnossen from Akvaplan-niva participated in the cruise but is missing from the picture (Photo: Njaal Heddle)

Multi-seasonal and high-resolution studies of the Polar Front

Environmentally sustainable industry operations require comprehensive ecosystem understanding, safe and effective monitoring technologies, and a reliable data archive for assessing risk and driving management strategies. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in sensitive Arctic regions where the knowledge base is incomplete, operational risk is high, and databases are fragmented and not user-f

Forskning for økt matproduksjon - fra verdensrom til havrom

Forskning for økt matproduksjon - fra verdensrom til havrom

Forskningsmiljøene utforsker nå kombinert bruk av fjernmåling og havdroner for å bygge kunnskap som kan effektivisere fisket etter lavtrofiske marine arter som fôr-ingrediens i oppdrettsnæringen.
Av Trude Borch, Akvaplan-niva


Økt matproduksjon fra havet
Bare 1 til 2 prosent av verdens proteinforbruk kommer fra havet, og for å sikre matforsyning til en voksende global befolkning e

The Sailbouy is an Uncrewed Surface Vehicle used for many Akvaplan-niva ocean research projects (Photo: Offshore Sensing)

Contributions to a Global Ocean Observing System: Uncrewed surface vehicles for monitoring air-sea interactions

Observing air-sea interactions on a global scale is essential for improving Earth system forecasts. These exchanges are however challenging to quantify. The reasons for this are extreme conditions, remote and under-sampled locations, requirements for the study of a multitude of co-located variables, and high variability of fluxes in space and time. A new publication with contributions from Akvapla

Photo: Bodil Bluhm/UiT

Last chance to see? The Central Arctic Ocean on the threshold of change

Long cold winters, thick year-round sea-ice, and great distances from major logistics centers have kept many secrets regarding the status and processes of the central Arctic Ocean ecosystem. Occasional research cruises, remote sensing technology, models, and our imagination provided the basis for our understanding through the end of the 20th century. Longer navigation seasons due to reduced sea-ic

POMP project members at the GRC 2025: Karl Attard, Maya Dalby, Antoine Haddon, Sina Müller, Marit Reigstad, Eva Leu, Marlena Szeligowska (front), Mathieu Ardyna and Sebastien Guerin (Photo: Linda Rehder).

The role of ice algae in the future Arctic carbon cycle - presentation at the Gordon Research Conference

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Polar Marine Science took place in Tuscany, Italy, March 9. - 14.. The conference topic was Sea Ice as a Nexus in Polar Seas Between the Ocean and the Atmosphere. Prof Marcel Babin was chairing the conference with Lisa Miller as vice chair.
Akvaplan-niva was represented by Eva Leu who presented a poster about the role of Melosira arctica in the future A

Sampling from a polar bear (Photo: Magnus Andersen / Norwegian Polar Institute).

From Sea to Lab- studying the effects from pollutants and stress on marine mammals

Text by Audrey Youjia Su
Large marine mammals are some of the most polluted animals on the planet. This is a result of a process known as biomagnification, where chemical pollutants get ingested by small marine organisms and build up in the fatty tissues of larger animals as they move up the food chain. Animals at the top of the chain, such as killer whales, can end up carrying over 100x the ha

Landfast sea ice (Photo: Dyre Dammann)

IceView is the first project to receive financing from the Arctic Phi-Lab

The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute gets support to develop an application for remote sensing of the coastal ice, called IceView.
The IceView project is led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) with the goal to develop algorithms to continuously map coastal ice using InSAR, a technique that enables observations of small movements from space. The Alfred Wegner Institute in Germany and

Pedersen gets an introduction to our autonomous platforms and ocean data sensors (Photo: Trude Borch/Akvaplan-niva)

Stakeholder meeting investigating new methodologies for zooplankton mapping

A workshop to highlight the use of Calanus finmarchicus as a sustainable resource and ingredient for aquaculture feed took place at Akvaplan-niva January 29th. We invited Ole Petter Pedersen, Scientific Advisor to Calanus AS to discuss our EU funded project on the mapping of zooplankton Calanus. The company Calanus AS, holding the brand name Zooca, is a Norwegian first mover company which has deve

From left to right, moderator Tor Eldevik (UiB) and panellists Endre Tvinnereim (UiB), Claude Véron-Réville (EU), Kai Simon Eikli Yuen (Arctic Economic Council), Eirik Frantzen (Nordkraft), and Hilde Røed (Equinor). (Photo: David Jensen @jensenmedia)

Discussing the green transition in the Arctic

In the side event “License to Operate – The Arctic Energy Transition” at Arctic Frontiers 2025, stakeholders from across sectors joined forces to discuss the challenges lying ahead for the Arctic and the green transition of energy markets in a geopolitically challenging situation.
By Sverre Ole Drønen, UiB
The global energy transition is ongoing, but time is short, and stakes are high. Throu

Eirik Haugstvedt Henriksen (Photo: Jesu Valdés Hernández)

The Emerging Leaders program - new perspectives for work and everyday life in the Arctic

This year Emerging Leader from Akvaplan-niva, Eirik Haugstvedt Henriksen, is born and raised in Tromsø and holds a PhD in biology from UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His expertise is on freshwater biology working with fish and parasite ecology. Eirik is fascinated by the way that parasites are embedded in food webs and provide information on the state and functioning of Arctic ecosystems. Fo

Photo: Trude Borch/Akvaplan-niva

Restoration and Development of Low-Trophic Blue Economies in the North

This year we at Akvaplan-niva started out the first day of the Arctic Frontiers conference arranging a side-event with NIVA, SINTEF Ocean and Ava Ocean. The event had two sub-themes and two panels, focusing on both kelp forest restoration and low-trophic blue economy. The background for the event is that one positive effect of climate change it that the Arctic can offer an increasing potential for

LEDIG STILLING/AVAILABLE POSITION Seksjonsleder Havobservasjon og miljø/Section Manager Ocean Observations and Environment

LEDIG STILLING/AVAILABLE POSITION Seksjonsleder Havobservasjon og miljø/Section Manager Ocean Observations and Environment

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Akvaplan-niva AS er et forsknings- og rådgivingsselskap i NIVA-gruppen (Norsk institutt for vannforskning). NIVA-gruppen består av stiftelsen NIVA, og de heleide datterselskapene Akvaplan-niva AS, NIVA Chile og NIVA China Ltd med over 400 ansatte og sterke fagmiljø. Akvaplan-niva har hovedkontor i Framsenteret i Tromsø og kontorer i Alta, Bodø, Trondheim, Oslo, Bergen og Reykjavik. Vi har pr i dag 130 ansatte. Vår forskningsstasjon FISK ligger på Kvaløya, ca 2 mil fra Tromsø sentrum.

Vi tilbyr rådgivningstjenester og FoU-bistand innen akvakultur for alle vann-tilknyttede miljøutfordringer. Forskning er en meget viktig del av vår virksomhet og våre forskere har kompetanse innen biologi, økologi, økotoksikologi, kjemi og oseanografi. Våre viktigste kundegrupper er havbruksnæringen, energi-sektoren og ulike forskningsfond. Akvaplan-niva er ISO 9001 sertifisert og har egne kjemiske og biologiske laboratorier som er akkreditert i henhold til anerkjente standarder.

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