1: Old And Cold: Biology of the Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus. 3 year project funded by The Danish Research Council for independent Research. Link to: Old And Cold
2: Behaviour, biology and physiology of Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus. The project range from instrumenting sharks with Floy and advanced satellite pop-up-tags, determining the age with carbon 14 techniques, to investigate coronary circulation and measure the oxygen consumption of large sharks ion Greenland.
A cruise to Greenland with the Danish research vessel DANA and 18 scientist from seven countries took place in September 2012. In collaboration with Prof. Peter G. Bushnell, Dept of Biological Sciences, IUSB, USA; Dr. Rich Brill, VIMS, USA, and many others. Link to video trailer from the cruise
The project is financed by grants from the Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland, Save Our Seas Foundation, National Geographic Society, Danish Centre for Marine Research, Kommissionen til Videnskabelige Undersøgelser i Grønland (KVUG) og Carlsbergfondet.
More info concerning the cruise:
3: Feeding behaviour of Atlantic sailfish Istiophorus albicans - Cancun, Mexico. The project involves snorkelling with the sailfish + 20 nm offshore and filming them with high speed video cameras while they are feeding on sardine schools. Link to BBC recordings of similar event:
In collaboration with Professor Jens Krause, Dept. of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Humboldt University, Berlin Germany, and Senior Researcher Dr. Paolo Domenici, CNR - IAMC, Oristano, Italy and others.
Video sequence from February 2013.
Istiophorus albicans
3: DISTRIMUGES - Multidisciplinary approach to understand the role of temperature in the distribution of three cryptic species of flatlip grey mullet, Mugil cephalus, in the North West Pacific. In collaboration with Prof. Dave McKenzie, Dept. of Fish Diversity and Ecology, Univ. of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. Two expedition to Taiwan in 2013. Financed by the French Research Council in collaboration with Taiwan. Link to project web page: http://www.dis3muge.univ-montp2.fr/index.php?lang=2
Mugil cephalus
5: EU-COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) ACTION FA (Food and Agriculture) 1004 - Conservation Physiology of Marine Fishes:
The COST action will: Coordinate marine fish conservation physiology research, to collate existing knowledge, reduce overlap, identify critical gaps in knowledge, and devise common approaches.Coordinate interactions among physiologists, community ecologists and forecast modellers, to integrate physiology into models, improve their predictive power, and identify conservation priorities.
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6: EU-COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) ACTION FA (Food and Agriculture) 1304 - Swimming of fish and implications for migration and aquaculture (FITFISH)
7: HABFISH - Harmful Algal Bloom and effects on fish: Project leader: Associate prof. Per Juel Hansen, MARS, KU, DK. The fish physiology group will be responsible for investigating the effect of toxic algae on fish. The project is funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research.
8: Behaviour and coping of individual salmon in farm environments with fluctuating oxygen and hydrodynamics (Salmon Dynamics). Project is a collaboration between Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Sintef Fisheries and Aquaculture (SFA), Univ. of Bergen, and MARS. Project leader: Frode Oppedal, IMR, Bergen. Main project is carried out at Matre Research Station. Financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
9: Collaboration with University of Tromsø - Norwegian College of Fishery Science (UiT) in Tromsø, Norway. Biodiversity and physiology of Arctic Fishes - From Greenland and Svalbard. (pdf-file of project poster).
Research cruises' to Northeast Greenland in 2003, 2005, 2007 2009, 2011. Project leader: Prof. Jørgen Schou Christiansen, UiT. Cruise scheduled for 2013.
Terminated Projects
1: Swimming energetics of coral reef fishes from Lizard Island Research Station, the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. In collaboration with Dr. Jacob L. Johansen, James Cook Univ., Townsville and Dr. Chris Fulton, Research School of Biology, Australian National Univ., Canberra. Financed by the Danish and Australian Research Councils.
2: MADFish - Molecular Adaptation In Fish - Nordic collaboration sponsored by NordForsk. Among others experimental courses will be held in Reykjavik and Helsingør.
2: Galathea3 Expedition to Antarctica January-February 2007 - 5 weeks cruising from Christchurch, New Zealand to Valparaiso, Chile via Antarctica.
White-bloded "ice fish" from Antarctica. Foto: J. F. Steffensen.
6: FishNet - collaboration between Danish Universities and Danish Institute for Fisheries Research.
7: EU - Project - 5th Framework Program: Quality of life and management of living resources:
ETHOFISH = the Effect of Turbidity and Hypoxia On the behavior of coastal marine FISHes. Terminated December 2005.
8: Collaboration between Akvaforsk, Sundallsøra, Norway and the Marine Biological Laboratory on ENERGY UTILIZATION IN FISH: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT. Financially supported via Strategic Institute Program from the Research Council of Norway.
R/V Jan Mayen in Northeast Greenland and at the station Danmarkshavn. (Fotos: H. Schurmann).