Effects Programme

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Effects

Programme objective

The overall objective of the effects programme was to provide the Norwegian authorities with reliable knowlege on the flux of contaminants in Arctic marine food chains and their effect on Arctic marine ecosystems. This also includes the potential effect on humans.

Complete objective here

Effects Programme Overview

Programnotat på norsk

List of personnell affiliated with projects in the Effects programme.

Projects in phase 1

Topic/Title		Co-ordinating institution	Funding* (1000 NOK)
Food chains and POPs:
	Persistent organic pollutants in marine organisms in the marginal ice zone in the Barents Sea; Bioconcentration and biomagnification	NP	300
	Transfer of organic pollutants from the abiotic environment to the lowest trophic levels of the ice associated food chain	Akvaplan-NIVA	400
	Persistent organic contaminants in the food-web of the Barents Sea	IMR	400
Food chains and model development, radionuclides
	Radionuclide uptake and transfer in pelagic food chains of the Barents Sea and resulting doses to man and biota	NRPA & IFE	1 400
Top predators - Glaucous Gull
	Distribution and effects of PCB in Glaucous Gulls: an ecological approach	NINA	100
	Biological effects of POPs on Svalbard Glaucous Gulls	Akvaplan-NIVA	100
	Genotoxic effects in Glaucous Gulls	NTNU	100
	Effects of persistant organic pollutants (POPs) on the immune response and retinoid- and thyroid hormone status of Glaucous Gulls	NP	450
Top predators and monitoring methods - Polar Bear
	Immune response and Chlorinated Organic Pollution in Polar Bears	NP	650
Arctic Charr
	The effect of PCBs on fecundity and endocrine control mechanisms in captive Svalbard charr	NTNU	200
	Ecological and physiological effects of PCB in a sympatric charr (Salvelinus alpinus) population in lake Ellasjøen, Bjørnøya	NINA	200
Monitoring methods for environmental management
	Exploration of sampling regimes to monitor the level of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in arctic marine birds and mammals.	NP	200
	Environmental monitoring of the marine environment - development of a cost-effective and rapid screening method for persistent organic pollutants.	NILU	100
	Development of a monitoring programme for the Arctic - Standards for methodology and measurement routines.	Akvaplan-NIVA	100
	SUM		4 700
* Only funding through the Effects programme is presented in this table. For complete budgets, please refer to the indivdual project descriptions.

Project in phase 2
In phase 2, there was one common project with the overall goal of giving concrete recomendations on how to monitor contaminants in Polar Bear, Arctic Charr and Glaucus Gull.

Geir Wing Gabrielsen m. fl.:
Anbefaling av forskning og overvåking av miljøgifter i isbjørn, polarmåke og røye
(Final report - only in Norwegian)

Goals of the project (English)

Complete project description (only in Norwegian)

Final recommendations on monitoring
The last report of the programme looks across transport and effects and makes recommendations on monitoring of contaminants in the Northern Seas.

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