European network for arctic-alpine multidiciplanary environmental research

Objective

Description:

Objectives:
ENVINET is a research infrastructure network focusing on multidisciplinary environmental research in Europe. The network involves representatives from 18 environmental research infrastructures from the European Alps to the Arctic, representatives of their users and representatives from relevant international organizations and networks. The participating infrastructures cover a broad range of environmental sciences primarily within: - Atmospheric physics and chemistry - Marine and terrestrial biology. ENVINET is put together for the main purpose of fostering new cross-discipline and cross-infrastructure collaboration and multidisciplinary merging of environmental research activities. Joint scientific and technical studies are generated under the network in the crossing fields of environmental sciences under the fields of Climate Change, Ozone and UV-radiation, Long Range Transport of Pollutants and Biodiversity. Working groups are established for the purpose of improving the quality of the research by elaborating and exchanging information related to the improvement of data sets, analyses tools, data processing methods, measurement protocols and comparability, quality assurance, instrument inter-comparison and networking, and needs for complementary and cross-disciplinary activities. The network will organise 4 general meetings during the3 year contract. Exchange of information will be through email and fax, newsletters and Web-pages.

ENVINET will significantly improve the exchange of information and experience among the partners, increase the co-ordination of activities within the network and between the users and the operators, and increase the cross-disciplinary research at and between the network stations. The working groups will prepare physical and biological data within the network that are more homogeneous, compatible and suitable for both atmospheric investigation and biological effect studies and prepare the ground for complementary programs, both on the individual research stations and across the stations. This will enable the scientific user community to access better data and produce higher quality results, which again will be beneficial for the environmental protection agencies and management, improving our ability to better understand and protect the environment and to better assess the effects of global environmental change. The network will be used to promote concerted calls for proposals and research activities related to multidisciplinary environmental research in Arctic - Alpine regions. Towards the end of the activity an assessment of the needs of main cross-discipline and cross-infrastructure challenges in Arctic-Alpine environmental research will be carried out, as a basis for hosting an international workshop.

Project Manager:

Jon Boerre Oerbaek
Research Department
Hjalmar Johansens G.14
Tromsoe
9296
Norway

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Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › environmental sciences
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › data science › data processing

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

THN - Thematic network contracts

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Coordinator

NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT

Address

Hjalmar Johansens G.14
9296 Tromsoe
Norway

Participants (19)

ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH

Germany

Address

Telegraphenberg 43 A
14473 Gross Glienicke Potsdam

ARCTIC MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT PROGRAM

Norway

Address

Stroemsveien 96
0032 Oslo

BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY

Switzerland

Address

3801 Jungfraujoch

DANISH POLAR CENTER

Denmark

Address

Strandgade 100 H
1401 Koebenhavn K/copenhaegen

FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE

Finland

Address

Taehtelaentie 71
99600 Sodankylae

GOETEBORG UNIVERSITY

Sweden

Address

Kristineberg 2130
450 34 Fiskebaeckskil

INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC SCIENCE COMMITTEE

Norway

Address

Stromsveien 96
0032 Oslo

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ITALY

Italy

Address

Viale Marx 15
00137 Roma

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

Ireland

Address

University Road
Galway

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

United Kingdom

Address

Madingley Road, High Cross
CB3 0ET Cambridge

NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH

Norway

Address

15,hjalmar Johansensgatan 14
9296 Tromsoe

NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH

Norway

Address

Brekkevn 19
0411 Oslo

NORWEGIAN SPACE CENTRE

Norway

Address

8483 Andenes

ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Sweden

Address

133 36 981 07 - Abisko

SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS

Sweden

Address

981 28 - Kiruna

THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE

United Kingdom

Address

Oban
PA37 1QA Dunbeg Oban Argyll

UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER - GRENOBLE 1

France

Address

Rue De La Piscine Batiment D
38041 Grenoble

UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN

Norway

Address

55,thormoehlensgt. 55
5020 Bergen

VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Austria

Address

Getreidemarkt 9/151
1060 Wien