Mediatisation and regional campaigning in a party-centred system: How and why parliamentary candidates seek visibility

Election campaigns are central to political life as well as to the study of political communication and provides much empirical knowledge about the processes of mediatisation and mediation of politics. Most often studies focus on the campaigns featuring the national top politicians. However, most elections campaigns in Western democracies are run by party branches and candidates who rarely make the top headlines in the nationwide media, yet they are also dependent on media attention and agenda-setting to be visible and reach their voters. Relying on several data sets from studies of the Norwegian 2009 parliamentary election campaign, this study asks, first, how regional, mainly “non-celebrity politicians,” obtain visibility. We seek to unravel how the media logic works on the regional and local level. Second, we ask why it is important for candidates in a party-centred proportional (PR) system to be visible. Our findings suggest that we should recognise the mediatised and multileveled character of election campaigns in order to understand how media logics work below the nationwide setting. Javnost - The Public, Vol. 21 - 2014, No. 2 http://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2014/2/5/. Made available here with permission from the publisher

Overvåkning av vekstsesongen med automatiske kamera i Adventdalen, Svalbard

Dette notatet omhandler etablering av kameraovervåkning av vekstsesongen i Adventdalen.publishedVersio

Annual report on health monitoring of wild anadromous salmonids in Norway 2020 - Screening of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) postsmolts for viral infections

The Institute of Marine Research has investigated the prevalence of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) and salmonid alphavirus (SAV, PD-virus) infections in migrating wild Atlantic salmon postsmolts captured in 2019 in three fjord systems located in three aquaculture production areas (PO2-4). These areas have had a sporadic case of ISA and a stable high incidence rate of PD, as well as a very high aquaculture intensity. The fish were collected as part of the national salmon lice monitoring program in the outer parts of the Bokna (N=132), Hardanger (N=110) and Sogne (N=110) fjords by trawling during the period May-June. ISAV was detected in two postsmolts from Hardanger fjord and SAV in one smolt from Sogne fjord. The Ct-value of SAV-positive fish was very high (38.9) which may suggest a false positive result. The findings from the current report indicate a very low prevalence of these viruses in wild migrating postsmolts. These findings complement and corroborate our previously reported data and may suggest that prevalence of ISAV or SAV infections in wild salmon postsmolts are not significantly influenced by the occurrence of these infections in fish farming.publishedVersio

Annual report on health monitoring of wild anadromous salmonids in Norway 2021 - Screening of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) postsmolts for viral infections

Havforskningsinstituttet har undersøkt utbredelsen av infeksiøs lakseanemi virus (ILAV) og salmonid alfavirus (SAV, PD-virus) infeksjoner i utvandrende vill atlantisk postsmolt fanget i 2020 i tre fjordsystemer lokalisert i tre akvakultur produksjonsområder (PO3, 5, 12). Fisken ble samlet inn som en del av NALO-programmet i de ytre delene av fjordene; Hardangerfjorden (N = 100), Romsdalsfjorden (N = 100) og Altafjorden (N = 100) ved tråling i perioden mai-juni. SAV ble påvist i én postsmolt fra Hardangerfjorden og ILAV i én smolt fra Altafjorden. Høy Ct-verdi (37,6) i den SAV-positive fisken kan imidlertid tyde på et falskt positivt resultat. ILAV påvisningen var sannsynligvis av den apatogene HPR0-varianten av viruset. Funnene fra den nåværende rapporten indikerer en svært lav forekomst av disse virusene i vill migrerende postsmolt av laks. Disse funnene utfyller og støtter våre tidligere rapporterte data, og kan antyde at utbredelsen av ILAV- eller SAV-infeksjoner i villaks postsmolt ikke er signifikant påvirket av forekomsten av disse infeksjonene i fiskeoppdrett.publishedVersio

Annual report on health monitoring of wild anadromous salmonids in Norway 2022 - Screening of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) postsmolts from Boknafjorden, Hardangerfjorden and Romsdalsfjorden for viral infections

The Institute of Marine Research has investigated the prevalence of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV), salmonid alphavirus (SAV, PD-virus), piscine orthoreovirus 1 (PRV-1), piscine myocarditis virus (PMCV) and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) infections in migrating wild Atlantic salmon postsmolts captured in 2021 in three fjord systems located in three aquaculture production areas (PO2, 3 and 5). The fish were collected as part of the national salmon lice monitoring program in the outer parts of Boknafjord (N = 50), Hardangerfjord (N = 57) and Romsdalsfjord (N = 73) by trawling during the period May-June. SAV was detected in 2 postsmolts from Romsdalsfjord. PRV-1 was detected in 11 (6%) of postsmolts (8 from Boknafjord, 1 from Hardangerfjord and 2 from Romsdalsfjord). Low concentrations of PMCV-RNA were detected in 19 (11 %) of postsmolts (13 from Boknafjord and 6 from Romsdalsfjord). ISAV and IPNV were not detected in any of the test fish. Generally, the virus-positive fish had high Ct-values which may indicate very low virus concentrations. The results in the current report showed that migrating postsmolts from fjords had a very low occurrence of virus infections common in Norwegian aquaculture. These findings complement and corroborate our previously reported data and may suggest that prevalence virus infections in wild salmon postsmolts is not significantly influenced by the occurrence of these infections in fish farming.Annual report on health monitoring of wild anadromous salmonids in Norway 2022 - Screening of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) postsmolts from Boknafjorden, Hardangerfjorden and Romsdalsfjorden for viral infectionspublishedVersio

Changes in Onset of Vegetation Growth on Svalbard, 2000–2020

The global temperature is increasing, and this is affecting the vegetation phenology in many parts of the world. The most prominent changes occur at northern latitudes such as our study area, which is Svalbard, located between 76°30′N and 80°50′N. A cloud-free time series of MODIS-NDVI data was processed. The dataset was interpolated to daily data during the 2000–2020 period with a 231.65 m pixel resolution. The onset of vegetation growth was mapped with a NDVI threshold method which corresponds well with a recent Sentinel-2 NDVI-based mapping of the onset of vegetation growth, which was in turn validated by a network of in-situ phenological data from time lapse cameras. The results show that the years 2000 and 2008 were extreme in terms of the late onset of vegetation growth. The year 2020 had the earliest onset of vegetation growth on Svalbard during the 21-year study. Each year since 2013 had an earlier or equally early timing in terms of the onset of the growth season compared with the 2000–2020 average. A linear trend of 0.57 days per year resulted in an earlier onset of growth of 12 days on average for the entire archipelago of Svalbard in 2020 compared to 2000.This work (S.R.K.) was supported by the Research Council of Norway under the project Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System—Infrastructure Development of the Norwegian Node (SIOS-InfraNor Project No. 269927). This SIOS project (InfraNord instrument #51) is funded by the Norwegian Space Agency (NoSA). The research was also partially funded (S.R.K., H.T.) by the Horizon 2020 project ArcticHubs, grant agreement no 869580. This work (S.B.) was also partially supported by Generalitat Valenciana (SEJIGENT/2021/001), the European Union–Next Generation EU (ZAMBRANO 21-04), and European Research Council (ERC) under the ERC-2017-STG SENTIFLEX project (grant agreement 755617)

Using Ordinary Digital Cameras in Place of Near-Infrared Sensors to Derive Vegetation Indices for Phenology Studies of High Arctic Vegetation

We thank Mark Gillespie, Nanna Baggesen, and Anne Marit Vik for field assistance. The University in Svalbard (UNIS) provided logistical support. This work was funded by the Norwegian Research Council through the ‘SnoEco’ project (project No. 230970) and Arctic Field Grant (No. 246110/E10). It was supported by the ESA Prodex project ‘Sentinel-2 for High North Vegetation Phenology’ (contract No. 4000110654), the EC FP7 collaborative project ‘Sentinels Synergy Framework’ (SenSyF), funding from The Fram Centre Terrestrial Flagship, also from the EEA Norway Grants (WICLAP project, ID 198571), and from the GRENE Arctic Climate Change Research Project, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan.Peer reviewedPublisher PD