Access to naturhistoriska riksmuseet - high latitude

Project Information

HIGH LAT

Grant agreement ID: HPRI-CT-2001-00125

Project closed

Start date 1 November 2001

End date 29 February 2004

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Total cost € 895 022,00

EU contribution € 895 022,00

Coordinated by

SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Sweden

Objective

NRM holds scientifically important biological and geological collections of nine million specimens. At the Research Department, with a staff of 150 persons, basic and applied research is performed within Botany, Zoology, Paleontology and Geology, covering various topics related to biodiversity, anthropogenic impact on the environment, and the evolution of the Earth and life. The collections cover wide taxonomic, temporal and geographic ranges, especially high-latitude and tropical material, and incorporate several special and unique collections. The Environmental Specimen Bank with tissues and other biological material includes long series of homogeneous matrices from terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems all over Sweden. Much of the key specimen information is available via internet enabling project pre-planning by IHP users and intensive time utilisation while at NRM.. NRM's high-quality infrastructure and excellent scientific and technical staff are well suited to support research on its collections and in related areas. Visiting scientists have access to a fully equipped molecular laboratory, new scanning and transmission electron microscopes, and a gas chromatography laboratory. Geological research facilities offer equipment for high precision analysis of isotopic and elemental compositions, and spectroscopic studies of minerals. The Nordic ion microprobe facility NORDSIM, based around a Cameca 1270 instrument for in-situ isotope microanalysis, is one of two such installations in Europe.

Application:

Scientists and students conducting their research in EU Member States or Associate States can apply for financial support for a visit at NRM by submitting a formal application available at NRM's website (http://www.nrm.se/highlat/application.html) or on request from HIGH LAT, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE - 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden ([e-mail], Fax: [phone]).

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › biological sciences › zoology
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › microscopy
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › palaeontology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › botany

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Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Topic(s)

• 1.4.1.-2. - Access to Research Infrastructures

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

LFC - Access to Research Infrastructures

Coordinator

SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Frescativaegen 40 ; 104 05 STOCKHOLM ; Sweden
• Total cost: No data