• NordAqua, a Nordic Center of Excellence to develop an algae-based photosynthetic production platform 

      Allahverdiyeva, Yagut; Aro, Eva-Mari; Bavel, Bert van; Escudero, Carlos; Funk, Christiane; Heinonen, Jarna; Herfindal, Lars; Lindblad, Peter; Makinen, Sari; Penttilä, Merja; Sivonen, Kaarina; Chauton, Matilde Skogen; Skomedal, Hanne; Skjermo, Jorunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      NordAqua is a multidisciplinary Nordic Center of Excellence funded by NordForsk Bioeconomy program (2017–2022). The research center promotes Blue Bioeconomy and endeavours to reform the use of natural resources in a ...
    • Nordic Blue Carbon Ecosystems: Status and Outlook 

      Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Gundersen, Hege; Björk, Mats; Gullström, Martin; Dahl, Martin; Asplund, Maria E.; Boström, Christoffer; Holmer, Marianne; Banta, Gary T.; Graversen, Anna Elizabeth Løvgren; Pedersen, Morten Foldager; Bekkby, Trine; Frigstad, Helene; Skjellum, Solrun Figenschau; Thormar, Jonas; Gyldenkærne, Steen; Howard, Jennifer; Pidgeon, Emily; Ragnarsdóttir, Sunna Björk; Mols-Mortensen, Agnes; Hancke, Kasper (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Vegetated coastal and marine habitats in the Nordic region include salt marshes, eelgrass meadows and, in particular, brown macroalgae (kelp forests and rockweed beds). Such habitats contribute to storage of organic carbon ...
    • The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let’s cooperate! 

      Dulio, Valeria; Koschorreck, Jan; van Bavel, Bert; van den Brink, Paul; Hollender, Juliane; Munthe, John; Schlabach, Martin; Aalizadeh, Reza; Agerstrand, Marlene; Ahrens, Lutz; Allan, Ian; Alygizakis, Nikiforos; Barceló, Damià; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Boutroup, Susanne; Brack, Werner; Bressy, Adele; Christensen, Jan H.; Cirka, Lubos; Covaci, Adrian; Derksen, Anja; Deviller, Genevieve; Dingemans, Milou M. L.; Engwall, Magnus; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Gago-Ferrero, Pablo; Hernández, Félix; Herzke, Dorte; Hilscherová, Klára; Hollert, Henner; Junghans, Marion; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Keiter, Steffen; Kools, Stefan A. E.; Kruve, Anneli; Lambropoulou, Dimitra; Lamoree, Marja; Leonards, Pim; Lopez, Benjamin; López de Alda, Miren; Lundy, Lian; Makovinská, Jarmila; Marigómez, Ionan; Martin, Jonathan W.; McHugh, Brendan; Miège, Cécile; O'Toole, Simon; Perkola, Noora; Polesello, Stefano; Posthuma, Leo; Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Roessink, Ivo; Rostkowski, Pawel; Ruedel, Heinz; Samanipour, Saer; Schulze, Tobias; Schymanski, Emma L.; Sengl, Manfred; Tarabek, Peter; Hulscher, Dorien Ten; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Togola, Anne; Valsecchi, Sara; van Leeuwen, Stefan; von der Ohe, Peter; Vorkamp, Katrin; Vrana, Branislav; Slobodnik, Jaroslav (Others, 2020)
      The Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC) is currently under development as a joint research and innovation programme to strengthen the scientific basis for chemical risk assessment in the EU. The plan is to ...
    • A novel method for the quantification of tire and polymer-modified bitumen particles in environmental samples by pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectroscopy 

      Rødland, Elisabeth Strandbråten; Samanipour, Saer; Rauert, Cassandra; Okoffo, Elvis D.; Reid, Malcolm James; Heier, Lene S; Lind, Ole Christian; Thomas, Kevin V; Meland, Sondre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Tire and road wear particles may constitute the largest source of microplastic particles into the environment. Quantification of these particles are associated with large uncertainties which are in part due to inadequate ...
    • De novo Development of a Quantitative Adverse Outcome Pathway (qAOP) Network for Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Using Targeted Laboratory Tests and Automated Data Mining 

      Song, You; Xie, Li; Lee, YeonKyeong; Tollefsen, Knut-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation is a natural non-chemical stressor posing potential hazards to organisms such as planktonic crustaceans. The present study was conducted to revisit the lethal effects of UVB on crustaceans, ...
    • Nuisance growth of Juncus bulbosus: the roles of genetics and environmental drivers tested in a large-scale survey 

      Moe, Therese Fosholt; Brysting, Anne Krag; Andersen, Tom; Schneider, Susanne Claudia; Kaste, Øyvind; Hessen, Dag Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      1. Invasive species can transform aquatic ecosystems, and the nuisance growth of the freshwater macrophyte Juncus bulbosus has become a problem in many lakes and rivers in northern Europe. It affects biodiversity strongly ...
    • Nutrient criteria for surface waters under the European Water Framework Directive: Current state-of-the-art, challenges and future outlook 

      Poikane, Sandra; Kelly, Martyn G; Salas Herrero, Fuensanta; Pitt, Jo-Anne; Jarvie, Helen P; Claussen, Ulrich; Leujak, Wera; Solheim, Anne Lyche; Teixeira, Heliana; Phillips, Geoff (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The aim of European water policy is to achieve good ecological status in all rivers, lakes, coastal and transitional waters by 2027. Currently, more than half of water bodies are in a degraded condition and nutrient ...
    • Nutrient retention by the littoral vegetation of a large lake: Can Lake Ohrid cope with current and future loading? 

      Vermaat, Jan E.; Matzinger, Andreas; Trajanovska, Sonja; Talevska, Marina; Schneider, Susanne C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets were compiled for the littoral (29 km2) and pelagic (329 km2) of ancient, deep, clear, and hard water Lake Ohrid (Albania and North Macedonia), to assess the importance of the littoral in ...
    • Observation of Floating Inorganic Macro-debris in The Downstream Citarum River using Manual Counting 

      Aisyah, S.; Hidayat, H.; Rahmadya, A.; Husrin, S.; Hurley, Rachel; Olsen, Marianne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Inorganic Macro-debris (IMD) such as plastics can negatively affect aquatic life and human wellbeing. Information about IMD transport in river systems is required to optimize prevention, mitigation, and reduction strategies. ...
    • Observations of turbulence caused by a combination of tides and mean baroclinic flow over a fjord sill 

      Staalstrøm, Andre; Arneborg, Lars; Liljebladh, Bengt; Brostrøm, Gøran (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      This study investigates the dissipation rates and flow conditions at the Drøbak Sill in the Oslofjord. The area was transected 13 times with a free-falling microstructure shear probe during 4 days in June 2011. At the same ...
    • Observing Temporally Varying Synoptic-Scale Total Alkalinity and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in the Arctic Ocean 

      Green, Hannah L.; Findlay, Helen S.; Shutler, Jamie D.; Sims, Richard; Bellerby, Richard; Land, Peter E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The long-term absorption by the oceans of atmospheric carbon dioxide is leading to the slow decline of ocean pH, a process termed ocean acidification (OA). The Arctic is a challenging region to gather enough data to examine ...
    • Occurrence and distribution of Pseudoscalibregma and Scalibregma (Annelida, Scalibregmatidae) in the deep Nordic Seas, with the description of Scalibregma hanseni n. sp. 

      Bakken, Torkild; Oug, Eivind; Kongsrud, Jon Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Until recent years, only a few scalibregmatid species have been known from the Nordic Seas, largely from shelf and coastal waters. Access to a large collection from deep areas has made it possible to provide more knowledge ...
    • Occurrence and trophic transport of organic compounds in sedimentation ponds for road runoff 

      Grung, Merete; Meland, Sondre; Ruus, Anders; Ranneklev, Sissel; Fjeld, Eirik; Kringstad, Alfhild; Rundberget, Jan Thomas; Cruz, Majbrit Dela; Christensen, Jan H (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Sedimentation ponds have been shown to accumulate several groups of contaminants, most importantly polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) and metals. But also, other urban organic pollutants have shown to be present, including ...
    • Occurrence of tire and road wear particles in urban and peri-urban snowbanks, and their potential environmental implications 

      Rødland, Elisabeth Strandbråten; Lind, Ole Christian; Reid, Malcolm James; Heier, Lene Sørlie; Okoffo, Elvis D.; Rauert, Cassandra; Thomas, Kevin V; Meland, Sondre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      According to estimates put forward in multiple studies, tire and road wear particles are one of the largest sources to microplastic contamination in the environment. There are large uncertainties associated with local ...
    • Occurrence of UV filters, fragrances and organophosphate flame retardants in municipal WWTP effluents and their removal during membrane post-treatment 

      Krzeminski, P; Schwermer, C; Wennberg, A; Langford, K; Vogelsang, C (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Membrane filtration using ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF) or reverse osmosis (RO) membranes was evaluated as an efficient effluent polishing step at municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) for the removal ...
    • Ocean acidification and human health 

      Falkenberg, Laura J.; Bellerby, Richard; Connell, Sean D.; Fleming, Lora E.; Maycock, Bruce; Russell, Bayden D.; Sullivan, Francis J.; Dupont, Sam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The ocean provides resources key to human health and well-being, including food, oxygen, livelihoods, blue spaces, and medicines. The global threat to these resources posed by accelerating ocean acidification is becoming ...
    • The ocean's ultimate trashcan: Hadal trenches as major depositories for plastic pollution 

      Peng, Guyu; Bellerby, Richard; Zhang, Feng; Sun, Xuerong; Li, Daoji (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Plastic debris and marine microplastics are being discharged into the ocean at an alarming scale and have been observed throughout the marine environment. Here we report microplastic in sediments of the Challenger Deep, ...
    • OECD validation study to assess intra- and inter-laboratory reproducibility of the zebrafish embryo toxicity test for acute aquatic toxicity testing 

      Busquet, François; Strecker, Ruben; Rawlings, Jane M.; Belanger, Scott E.; Braunbeck, Thomas; Carr, Gregory J.; Cenijn, Peter; Fochtman, Przemyslaw; Gourmelon, Anne; Hübler, Nicole; Kleensang, André; Knöbel, Melanie; Kussatz, Carola; Legler, Juliette; Lillicrap, Adam David; Martínez-Jerónimo, Fernando; Polleichtner, Christian; Rzodeczko, Helena; Salinas, Edward; Schneider, Katharina E.; Scholz, Stefan; van den Brandhof, Evert-Jan; van der Ven, Leo T.M.; Walter-Rohde, Susanne; Weigt, Stefan; Witters, Hilda; Halder, Marlies (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The OECD validation study of the zebrafish embryo acute toxicity test (ZFET) for acute aquatic toxicity testing evaluated the ZFET reproducibility by testing 20 chemicals at 5 different concentrations in 3 independent runs ...
    • Olisthodiscus represents a new class of Ochrophyta 

      Barcytė, Dovilė; Eikrem, Wenche; Engesmo, Anette; Seoane, Sergio; Wohlmann, Jens; Horak, Ales; Yurchenko, Tatiana; Elias, Marek (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The phylogenetic diversity of Ochrophyta, a diverse and ecologically important radiation of algae, is still incompletely understood even at the level of the principal lineages. One taxon that has eluded simple classification ...
    • On the Possibility of Aerobic Methane Production by Pelagic Microbial Communities of the Laptev Sea 

      Samylina, O.S.; Rusanov, I.I.; Tarnovetskii, I. Yu.; Yakushev, E.V.; Grinko, A.A.; Zakharova, E.E.; Merkel, A. Yu.; Kanapatskiy, T.A.; Semiletov, I.P.; Pimenov, N.V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The taxonomic diversity and metabolic activity of microbial communities in the Laptev Sea water column above and outside the methane seep field were studied. The concentrations of dissolved methane in the water column at ...