Langtidsovervåking av miljøkvaliteten i kystområdene av Norge. Bløtbunn. Datarapport 1996

Tokt for innsamling av bløtbunnsfaunaprøver ble gjennomført i mai/juni 1996 på strekningen Egersund - Ytre Oslofjord. Det ble gjort innsamling på 17 stasjoner. Foreliggende datarapport inneholder data for artenes individtall, faunaens artsmangfold, samt sedimentparametre i hver enkelt grabb. Primærdataene er lagret i databaser på NIVA. Videre bearbeidelse av data og vurdering av resultatene blir gitt i årsrapporten for 1996

Openings and Closings in Workplace Emails: How Do People Navigate without Clear Standards and Clearly Prescribed Formulae?

Languages vary when it comes to linguistic manifestations of formal politeness, but what particularly marks professional email communication is the flexibility of the genre compared to traditional, formal business letters. This poses the question of how individual email writers navigate without clear standards and clearly prescribed formulae. This study focuses on the individual email writer and, specifically, opening salutations and closing valedictions in 927Norwegian workplace emails, followed by metapragmatic interviews with their senders. In an egalitarian society with few explicit linguistic manifestations of formal politeness, individual choices of formulations provide a rich source of data. Linguistic content analysis reveals a significant degree of consistency in each person’s individual use, which indicates that when there are no commonly held norms, people make their own rules. The interviewees are aware ofwhich openings and closings they prefer, but often not why. Further analysis of the data reveals that hierarchical social distance is not a motivational factor, but the intentions to be either personally close or professionally distant are. Both are regarded as viable options in formal workplace emails by their users. However, the informants’ perception of which linguistic items represent these motivations depends on individual preferences rather than on any establishedor institutionalised practises. The latter is not a uniquely Norwegian problem, but concerns email correspondents in general because of the flexibility innate to the email genre

Depth-dependent varation in soft-bottom fauna

Depth is an important variable influencing soft-bottom-fauna communities. Lowest diversities were found at depths shallower than 40 m, probably due to stronger fluctuations in environmental factors. Maximum diversities were found at 65-115 m depth. The decline in diversity deeper than 100 m may be caused by different food supply and more homogenous silt/clay type of sediment, offering fewer niches. Great differences were found between different species. Most species showed a preference to either deep or shallow depths

Langtidsovervåking av miljøkvaliteten i kystområdene av Norge. Kystovervåkingsprogrammet. Bløtbunn. Datarapport 2002

Årsliste 2003Tokt for innsamling av bløtbunnsfaunaprøver ble gjennomført i juni 2002 på strekningen Lista - Ytre Oslofjord. Det ble gjort innsamling på 6 stasjoner. Faunaen og sediment er analysert på alle stasjonene. Foreliggende datarapport inneholder data for artenes individtall, faunaens artsmangfold i hver enkelt grabb, samt sedimentparametre fra én eller flere grabber pr. stasjon. Primærdataene er lagret i databaser på NIVA.Statens forurensningstilsyn (SFT