• Climate change mitigation effects: How do potential CO2 leaks from a sub-seabed storage site in the Norwegian Sea affect Astarte sp. bivalves? 

  Bonnail, Estefanía; Borrero Santiago, Ana Rocío; Nordtug, Trond; Øverjordet, Ida Beathe; Krause, Daniel Franklin; Ardelan, Murat Van (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of the most promising mitigation strategies for reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere and may substantially help to decelerate global warming. There is an ...

• Inertial torque on a small spheroid in a stationary uniform flow 

  Jiang, Fengjian; Lihao, Zhao; Andersson, Helge Ingolf; Gustavsson, Kristian; Pumir, Alain; Mehlig, Bernhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  How anisotropic particles rotate and orient in a flow depends on the hydrodynamic torque they experience. Here we compute the torque acting on a small spheroid in a uniform flow by numerically solving the Navier-Stokes ...

• Constrained Autonomy for a Better Human–Automation Interface 

  Rødseth, Ørnulf Jan (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The concept of autonomous or uncrewed ships is not new. Japan investigated remote control of ships in the “Highly reliable intelligent ship” project from 1982 to 1988 (Hasegawa 2004). The rocket launching platform L/P ...

• Overexploitation, Recovery, and Warming of the Barents Sea Ecosystem During 1950–2013 

  Pedersen, Torstein; Mikkelsen, Nina; Lindstrøm, Ulf; Renaud, Paul Eric; Nascimento, Marcela C.; Blanchet, Marie-Anne; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Jørgensen, Lis L.; Blanchet, Hugues (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The Barents Sea (BS) is a high-latitude shelf ecosystem with important fisheries, high and historically variable harvesting pressure, and ongoing high variability in climatic conditions. To quantify carbon flow pathways ...

• Large-scale basin testing to simulate realistic oil droplet distributions from subsea release of oil and the effect of subsea dispersant injection 

  Brandvik, Per Johan; Davies, Emlyn John; Leirvik, Frode; Johansen, Øistein; Belore, Randy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Small-scale experiments performed at SINTEF, Norway in 2011–12 led to the development of a modified Weber scaling algorithm. The algorithm predicts initial oil droplet sizes (d50) from a subsea oil and gas blowout. It was ...

• Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) embryos are highly sensitive to short-term 3,4-dichloroaniline exposure 

  Hansen, Bjørn Henrik; Farkas, Julia; Piarulli, Stefania; Vicario, Silvia; Kvæstad, Bjarne; Williamson, David Roddan; Sørensen, Lisbet; Davies, Emlyn John; Nordtug, Trond (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  3,4-dichloroaniline (3,4-DCA) is one of the most widely produced anilines world-wide, used in plastic packaging, fabrics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, dyes and paints as well as being a degradation product of several ...

• The effect of white and green LED-lights on the catch efficiency of the Barents Sea snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) pot fishery 

  Cerbule, Kristine; Herrmann, Bent; Grimaldo, Vela Eduardo; Grimsmo, Leif; Vollstad, Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  In commercial snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) fishery, the catch efficiency of the conical pots is important for increasing the profitability of the industry. This study evaluated the effect of adding green and white light ...

• Energetic and Economic Evaluation of Zero-Waste Fish Co-Stream Processing 

  Venslauskas, Kęstutis; Navickas, Kęstutis; Nappa, Marja; Kangas, Petteri; Mozuraityte, Revilija; Slizyte, Rasa; Župerka, Vidmantas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  This study evaluates the possibility of recovery of high-quality valuable fish oil and proteins from fish co-streams by traditional means or a combination of several technologies. A techno-economically feasible and sustainable ...

• Clusters and coherent voids in particle-laden wake flow 

  Shi, Zhaoyu; Jiang, Fengjian; Zhao, Lihao; Andersson, Helge Ingolf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Inertial point particles suspended in a two-dimensional unsteady circular cylinder flow at Re = 100 are studied by one-way coupled three-dimensional numerical simulations. The striking clustering pattern in the near-wake ...

• Effects of mine tailing exposure on early life stages of cod (Gadus morhua) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) 

  Farkas, Julia; Nordtug, Trond; Svendheim, Linn Hjelmeland; D Amico, Elettra; Davies, Emlyn John; Ciesielski, Tomasz Maciej; Jensen, Bjørn Munro; Kristensen, Torstein; Olsvik, Pål Asgeir; Hansen, Bjørn Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Mining and processing of minerals produce large quantities of tailings as waste. Some countries, including Norway, allow disposal of mine tailings in the sea. In this study we investigated the impacts of tailings from a ...

• UV treatment in RAS influences the rearing water microbiota and reduces the survival of European lobster larvae (Homarus gammarus) 

  Attramadal, Kari J.K.; Øien, John Vegard; Kristensen, Elisabeth; Evjemo, Jan Ove; Kjørsvik, Elin; Vadstein, Olav; Bakke, Ingrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The rearing environment is important for a stable production of good quality lobster juveniles. By providing an environment excluding pathogens and dominated by mutualistic bacteria, the probability of developing healthy ...

• Warm water treatment increased mortality risk in salmon 

  Bui, Samantha; Madaro, Angelico; Nilsson, Jonatan; Fjelldal, Per Gunnar; Iversen, Martin Haugmo; Brinchmann, Monica Fengsrud; Venås, Birger; Schrøder, Merete Bjørgan; Stien, Lars Helge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Thermal treatment is a controversial method to control sea lice in the Atlantic salmon farming industry. This study aimed to complement the growing evidence base to document the impact of thermal treatments on salmon ...

• Empirical estimation of low-frequency nonlinear hydrodynamic loads on moored structures 

  Sauder, Thomas Michel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Low-frequency (LF) motions of floating structures are commonly modeled as the response of an oscillator to a second-order wave excitation. We present here an empirical method that reliably estimates the oscillators parameters ...

• Sloshing in a rotating liquid inside a closed sea cage for fish farming 

  Tsarau, Andrei; Lugni, Claudio; Lucarelli, Alessia; Kristiansen, David; Lader, Pål Furset (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Sloshing in a sea cage with a slowly rotating liquid is investigated. The cage is axisymmetric, and the liquid is subjected to a nearly uniform angular velocity about the vertical axis of the cage. Both experimental and ...

• EspyInsideFunction.jl-extracting intermediate results from numerical functions 

  Maincon, Philippe Emmanuel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  EspyInsideFunction allows to write software in the Julia programming language Julia (2017) [1] to make the value of variables within a function’s local scope — variables that are neither arguments nor return values, available ...

• An integrated approach for monitoring structural deformation of aquaculture net cages 

  Su, Biao; Kelasidi, Eleni; Frank, Kevin; Haugen, Joakim; Føre, Martin; Pedersen, Magnus Oshaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  The majority of present marine finfish production is conducted in flexible net cages which can deform when they are subjected to water movements generated by currents. The ability to monitor net deformation is important ...

• The impact of exposure timing on embryo mortality and the partitioning of PAHs when cod eggs are exposed to dispersed and dissolved crude oil 

  Nordtug, Trond; Olsen, Anders Johny; Wold, Per-Arvid; Salaberria, Iurgi; Øverjordet, Ida Beathe; Altin, Dag; Kjørsvik, Elin; Hansen, Bjørn Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  During sub-sea oil spills to the marine environment, oil droplets will rise towards the sea surface at a rate determined by their density and diameter as well as the vertical turbulence in the water. Micro-droplets (< 50 ...

• The Case for Policy in Developing Offshore Wind: Lessons from Norway 

  Ringvej Dahl, Iben; Tveiten, Bård Wathne; Cowan, Emily Christine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Offshore wind (OSW) has the potential to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and halt damaging climate change. However, policies to foster an OSW industry in Norway have long been small and scarce. Recent events suggest ...

• 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 ...

• Different topologies of natural vortex dislocations in Mode A wake 

  Tian, Cai; Shi, Zhaoyu; Jiang, Fengjian; Andersson, Helge Ingolf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  The mode A wake behind a circular cylinder at Reynolds number 200 was simulated by directly solving the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations. A more detailed investigation of different topologies of natural vortex ...

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