Projects funded by the Marine Research Programme
BlueOcean - Blue whiting recruitment, distribution and Ocean-climate processes in the north Atlantic Ridge area
Project leader: Brian MacKenzie
Cooperation between DTU-Aqua and Faroe Marine Research Institute
Funding: DKK 3,998,000
Project period: 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2026
TOPLINK - Marine top predators as ecosystem indicators in the central North Atlantic
Project leader: Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen
Cooperation between Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Faroe Marine Research Institute and University of Copenhagen
Funding: DKK 3,973,000
Project period: 01.01.2022 - 30.10.2025
COPS - Dynamics of Calanus species linked to Oceanographic processes, Predators and Carbon Sequestration
Project leader: Eilif Gaard
Cooperation between Faroe Marine Research Institute, DTU-Aqua and University of Strathclyde
Funding: DKK 2,366,250
Project period: 01.01.2022 - 31.09.2025
FjordProcess - Key processes governing pelagic productivity in sub-arctic North Atlantic fjord ecosystems
Project leader: Eydna í Homrum
Cooperation between Faroe Marine Research Institute, Aquaculture Research Station of the Faroe Islands, Aarhus University and Institute of Marine Research in Bergen
Funding: DKK 3,699,024
Project period: 01.01.2022 - 31.05.2025
BlueCea - Tracing the fate of Macroalgae with a focus on blue carbon processes in sub-arctic North Atlantic fjord ecosystems and beyond
Project leader: Nadescha Zwerschke
Cooperation between Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Department of Ecoscience at Aarhus University, the Aquaculture Research Station in the Faroe Islands, TARI – Faroe Seaweed, and Faroe Marine Research Institute.
Funding: DKK 3,899,358
Project period: 01.05.2023 - 30.09.2025
ClimeFishLink - Linking 80 years of variation in fish growth to climatic effects on food webs, temperature and field metabolic rates using otolith microchemistry
Project leader: Peter Grønkjær
Cooperation between Department of Biology at Aarhus University and Faroe Marine Research Institute
Funding: DKK 2,844,921
Project period: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026
DolphinUnit - Defining management units and genetic health of cetacean top predators in the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe-Scotland Ridge and beyond
Project Leader: Marie Louis
Cooperation between Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, University of the Faroe Islands, and University of Copenhagen
Funding: DKK 3,036,213
Project period: 01.02.2025 - 31.01.2027
PHYTO-TRAITS - Morphological and nutritional traits of phytoplankton blooms in the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Ocean-Shelf systems of the North Atlantic
Project Leader: Ian Salter
Cooperation between Faroe Marine Research Institute, University of the Faroe Islands, Firum, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, DTU Aqua, Finnish Environment Institute, and Research Institute for Water and the Environment (Norway).
Funding: DKK 3,199,852
Project period: 01.10.2025 - 30.09.2028
Si-4-Eco - Silicate – gyre dynamics: consequences for north Atlantic ecological productivity
Project Leader: Brian MacKenzie
Cooperation between DTU Aqua, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, and Faroe Marine Research Institute
Funding: DKK 3,200,000
Project period: 01.10.2024 - 31.09.2027
AXIS - An extended time series of deep overflow: how variable is the AMOC?
Project Leader: Camilla S. Andresen
Cooperation between Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Faroe Marine Research Institute, Faroese Geological Survey and Arctic University of Norway.
Funding: DKK 3,597,718
Project period: 01.01.2026 - 30.06.2029
GL Halibut - Genomic Architecture of Sex: exploring the role of environmental clines in the sex determination of Greenland halibut
Project Leader: Daniel Estévez Barcia
Cooperation between Greenland Institute of Natural Resource, DTU Aqua, University of the Faroe Islands and Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Iceland
Funding: DKK 3,553,450
Project period: 20.09.2025 - 20.09.2027
MeDNA - Tracking spatial and temporal distribution of marine mammals in the Atlantic Arctic with environmental DNA
Project Leader: Anni Djurhuus
Cooperation between University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Marine Research Institute, Greenland Insitute of Naturel Resources, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GLOBE Institute University of Copenhagen and DHI Group
Funding: DKK 3,597,693
Project period: 01.11.2025 - 01.04.2028
REDADVANCE – Harnessing genomics to improve future sustainable management of redfish on the Ridgegyre dynamics: consequences for North Atlantic ecological productivity
Project Leader: Einar Eg Nielsen
Cooperation between DTU Aqua, University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Marine Research Institute, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Institute of Marine Research and University of Agder
Funding: DKK 3,598,686
Project period: 01.04.2026 - 31.03.2029