Welcome to the annual meeting of NorMER - Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change.

ABOUT THIS ANNUAL EVENT: A series of influencial and scientific strong people will address the challenges and direction for solutions on the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems and marine resources. See the program for details.

Read more: Annual Nordic meeting 'Ecosystems & Resources under Climate Change' (by NorMER)

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En bred sammensatt chilensk embetsdelegasjon besøkte Aqua Gens avlsstasjon på Kyrksæterøra under Aqua Nor 2011. Delegasjonen med fiskeriminister Pablo Galilea og fiskeridirektør Juan Luis Ansoleaga i spissen hadde samtaler med Aqua Gens ledelse. Samtalene omhandlet hovedsakelig om hvordan videreutvikle samarbeidet mellom Norge og Chile knyttet til teknisk-vitenskapelige innsatsfaktorer i verdikjeden, og hvordan en internasjonal kompetansebedrift som Aqua Gen kan bidra til økt innovasjonskraft i den chilenske akvakultursektoren.

Read more: Chile's fisheries minister visiting AquaGen.

CEES-led team make ground-breaking discovery about the Atlantic cod immune system, published in Nature and featured in Nature News.

Official press release:

Unique immune system in Atlantic codAn international team of researchers used high throughput sequencing technology to make a striking discovery that changes fundamental ideas about the evolution of the immune system in vertebrates. These results are published in this week’s issue of Nature.

Read more: Ground-breaking discovery about Atlantic cod immune system

On behalf of the Top-level Research Initiative (TRI), Nordforsk has awarded funding for a new Nordic Centre of Excellence on Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems and Resource Economics with CEES's Nils Chr. Stenseth as the PI and Carl Folke at the Stockholm Resilience Centre as the co-PI. Funding is scheduled to begin in 2011 and will be available for 5 years.

The Centre will implement a broad international and multidisciplinary research strategy to explore the biological, economic, and societal risks and opportunities of global climate change on fisheries resources in the Nordic region, with a primary focus on the Atlantic cod. The Centre will achieve this through a program of primary research that will train a new generation of Phd students and Postdocs to develop internationally collaborative projects that integrate biology, economics, and policy. More information on the structure of the partnership and the research program is available at the web address.

Read more: Funding awarded for cod research