NORCE Research AS

It depends on the question: How survey format shapes the measurement of public attitudes to carbon capture and storage in Norway

Public attitudes towards emerging, technically complex climate technologies are difficult to measure with standard closed-ended items. When an issue is unfamiliar and low in salience, closed formats may invite low-effort, weakly held answers that mask uncertainty and ambivalence....

Seasonal presence, movements and behaviour of Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua ) in Isfjorden, Svalbard

Abstract Atlantification is increasing the inflow of warm, salty Atlantic water into the Arctic region. The fjords on the western coast of Svalbard are experiencing Atlantification, enabling boreal species, such as Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua ), to expand their distribution north...

Economic Feasibility of Acoustic Emission Monitoring in CO2 Pipelines: An Experimental Study

CO 2 pipelines are critical for carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) and industrial applications. Gas leaks from these pipelines can pose a significant safety hazard, impact the environment, and cause economic losses. When leakage occurs from the high-pressure pipeline...

A global consistent database of plankton and detritus from in situ imaging by the Underwater Vision Profiler 5

Plankton and detritus are essential components of the Earth's oceans influencing biogeochemical cycles and carbon sequestration. Climate change impacts their composition and fluxes, and marine ecosystems as a whole. To improve our understanding of these changes, standardized obse...

Mountain glacier evolution since the last interglacial

Abstract. Mountain glacier evolution since the last interglacial remains poorly constrained, with limited spatial and temporal coverage. Conventional modelling approaches typically target major climatic events, operate at coarse spatial resolution over limited spatial domains, or...

Linking NDVI and Leaf Senescence in High Arctic Tundra Plants: Soil Moisture Control on Senescence Phenology Revealed by Direct Observations and NDVI Sensors

A comprehensive understanding of the drivers of tundra plant senescence phenology and climate-related changes in senescence timing across tundra landscapes is currently lacking. Near-surface remote sensing (NRS) holds the potential to bridge this gap by overcoming problems common...

Coupled Reconstruction of 2D Blood Flow and Vessel Geometry from Noisy Images via Physics-Informed Neural Networks and Quasi-conformal Mapping

Abstract. Blood flow imaging provides important information for hemodynamic behavior within the vascular system and plays an essential role in medical diagnosis and treatment planning. However, obtaining high-quality flow images remains a significant challenge. In this work, we a...

Predation Risk and Depth Use During Migration of Atlantic Salmon Smolts Through a Fjord Impacted by Hydropower Discharge

ABSTRACT Atlantic salmon ( Salmo must survive the transition from river to fjord in order to migrate to northern latitudes where they feed and grow at sea. In the River Suldalslågen in southern Norway, hydropower regulated water discharge determines the timing and extent of river...

Prenatal stress and gestational epigenetic age: no evidence of associations based on a large prospective multi-cohort study

Psychological stress during pregnancy is known to have a range of long-lasting negative consequences on the development and health of offspring. Here, we tested whether a measure of prenatal early-life stress was associated with a biomarker of physiological development at birth,...

Impact of meteorological and oceanographic conditions on the state of sea ice in Hornsund, Svalbard over 23 years

Abstract. Sea ice in fjords affects local hydrography, ecosystems, glacier stability and coastal erosion. The full archive of historical SAR imagery at ∼50 m resolution (Envisat ASAR, RADARSAT-2 and Sentinel-1) capturing the Hornsund fjord, Svalbard was used to create an unpreced...

Shifting shorelines and hydroclimate changes in southern South Africa: Insights from sediment provenance during the Middle Stone Age (90-50 ka)

Southern South Africa houses some key archaeological sites, which document the behavioural and technological development of Homo sapiens . During Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5 and 4, this region experienced marked climate variability, particularly in temperature and precipitation...

Availability and representativeness of freshwater macroinvertebrate data to enable Europe-wide assessment of biodiversity trends

Freshwater ecosystems, though covering less than 1% of Earth's surface, harbor around 10% of all species. Pressures like pollution, water extraction, and habitat loss can exhibit complex interactions in their effects on freshwater biodiversity. Understanding the effects of these...

No Differences in Blood Pressure or Anthropometric Measures in 3‐Year‐Old Children After a Randomized Mediterranean Dietary Intervention During Pregnancy in Norway

AIM: The randomized controlled Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Diet in Pregnancy (CARRDIP) study demonstrated that a Mediterranean diet during pregnancy could alter maternal lipid levels, improve fetoplacental perfusion, and reduce preterm delivery rate. Here, we examine whether th...

The Effects of Stop Sexual Harassment: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Abstract Sexual and gendered harassment is prevalent among adolescents and associated with health outcomes. Evidence from randomized controlled trials of school-based interventions addressing such harassment outside dating contexts among students under 16 years is limited. This s...

The value of electronic tagging and tracking studies for understanding fish–hypoxia interactions

Abstract Objective Hypoxia (i.e., low dissolved oxygen availability) is a natural phenomenon but can also be induced by human activities (e.g., nutrient enrichment from runoff). Given that dissolved oxygen is essential for aquatic life, periods of hypoxia tend to have negative co...