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The the annual meeting of the Norwegian Association of Marine Scientists (Havforskermøtet) will this year take place in Tromsø 25-27 November at Clarion Hotel the Edge. This year’s theme is Effects of climate change and climate mitigation measures on marine ecosystems. As usual, we also welcome presentations on other topics within marine research.

The meeting will focus on effects on climate change in the ocean, and on the consequences of climate mitigation measures such as offshore wind and deep sea mining on marine life. This year’s theme is highly relevant for researchers and students who work with various aspects of climate change and climate measures on marine nature. We will invite relevant experts from various disciplines and institutions to create a broad conversation about trade-offs between technological solutions to the climate crisis and what this entails in terms of areal use and other environmental costs.

The registration was due by 31 October. Email us at havforsk@havforsk.no if you have any questions.

Tentative program:

Monday 25.11.2024 

  • 17:00: Annual meeting Norsk Havforskerforening
  • 19:00: (Open meeting held in Norwegian): Klima, hav og klimaomstilling med et populært, men vitenskapelig perspektiv fra ulike disipliner om dilemmaene vi står overfor.

Tuesday 26.11.2024 The green shift and ocean life? How climate mitigation actions influence marine ecosystems.

  • Invited presentations
  • Contributed scientific presentations
  • Poster session
  • Dinner

Wednesday 27.11.2024 Ocean warming and marine life – how do organisms adapt to climate change?

  • Invited presentations
  • Contributed scientific presentations. Program closes around 15:00.

Contributions to the scientific program should ideally be in English, but can also be in Norwegian. Abstracts must be submitted in this folder by 1st of November. Please use the template for the abstract that you can find here.

We are looking forward to another insightful and social meeting of marine researchers, and hope to see you there!

First name | Last name
Please indicate whether you would like to give a presentation at the meeting, in the form of oral presentation or poster. Contributions can be in English (preferably) or Norwegian. You are not guaranteed an oral presentation if the program is full. Please upload your abstract separately by 1st of November (link above).
Sign up soon to secure a room in the conference venue, Clarion Hotel The Edge. We have reserved 50 rooms. If these are fully booked, participants will need to arrange their own accommodation.
Write the name of the participant you wish to share with in the "Other information" field below. The price for a the whole meeting will be 4000 NOK per person in a double room.
We encourage students to present at the meeting. We cover the meeting fee for up to 10 students, these slots are currently taken (we do not have funds to cover the meetings costs for additional students at this stage).
In order for your registration to be confirmed, we require a completed registration form and payment before October 31st. Payment to bank account no. 0531 08 83850. Remember to mark the payment with the name of the participant(s).
Food allergies or other needs that we need to know about. If you wish to share a double room with another participant, please write the name of the person here.

Registration for the annual meeting (Havforskarmøtet) 2023

Note: New registration deadline: 27th October 2023!

This year, the annual meeting of the Norwegian Association of Marine Scientists (Havforskermøtet) will take place on Monday 20th - Wednesday 22nd November on the island of Runde. The main theme is Food from the Sea.

On Monday evening we start with the annual meeting and popular science entertainment before dinner. On Tuesday and Wednesday we continue with the scientific programme. More detailed information about the programme will follow.

We plan to organize transport by bus from Ålesund to Runde on Monday and back on Wednesday, departing from Ålesund ca. 15:30 on Monday and back in Ålesund at 17:00 on Wednesday. If necessary we may also arrange transport from Ørsta-Volda airport, Hovden.

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Date: 20 – 22 November 2023

Place: Runde

Theme: Food from the sea

This year, the annual meeting of the Norwegian Association of Marine Scientists (Havforskermøtet) will take place on Monday 20th - Wednesday 22nd November on Runde island. The main theme is Food from the Sea.

On the outer west coast of the Sunnmøre region you find the island of Runde, home to the southernmost bird cliff of Norway. Runde is a place off the beaten track, where we can disconnect from the outside world and just be present together.

The meeting is held at the visitors’ centre Opplev Runde. Accommodation is available in comfortable flats at the centre, and at neighbouring Christineborg Gjestehus. We also have a deal with Thon Hotel in nearby Fosnavåg, to make sure there is room for all participants.

Runde is a two-hour journey outside Ålesund. You can travel via Ålesund airport (well connected via bus and boat) or fly to Ørsta/Hovden and continue by car or minibus (50 minutes).

On Monday evening we start with the annual meeting and and popular science entertainment before dinner. On Tuesday and Wednesday we continue with the scientific programme. See the full programme of the meeting here.

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Venue: Holmen Fjordhotell, Oslo 

Dates: 21-23 November 2022

Theme: Use or protection – Land use at sea
This year, the annual meeting in the Norwegian Association of Marine Scientists (NHF) will take place Monday 21 – Wednesday 23 November at Holmen Fjordhotell in Asker outside Oslo. The main theme is Use or protection – Land use at sea.

The registration deadline was Wednesday 19 October 2022. If you didn’t sign up in time but still want to participate, please contact us directly at havforsk@havforsk.no and we’ll see what we can do. Presentations or posters are welcome, these can be on the main theme or other topics within marine research. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 01.11.2022 (sent to havforsk@havforsk.no, mark the email with Abstract).

We start Monday evening with the annual meeting and a popular scientific lecture before dinner. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we continue with an exciting academic program with invited posts and discussion, presentations and posters. In addition, there will be a joint meals, breaks and social gatherings. The meeting ends on Wednesday 23 November at 15:30. The detailed program will be updated (available in Norwegian here).

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Deadline for registration: 19.10.2022

The registration deadline has passed! If you didn’t sign up in time but still want to participate, please contact us directly at havforsk@havforsk.no and we’ll see what we can do.

We start with the annual meeting Monday evening with a popular science lecture before dinner. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we continue with an exciting scientific program with invited plenaries and discussions, presentations and posters. In addition, there will be joint meals, breaks and social gatherings. The meeting ends on Wednesday 23 November at 15:30. The detailed program will be updated on the websites and should be ready in early November.

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The deadline to register for the Annual Meeting of the NHF (Havforskermøtet) 2021 was on 15th October.

This year we will meet in person at Solstrand Hotel & Bad outside Bergen, Monday 22nd – Wednesday 24th November. The theme is New methods to meet future challenges. We focus on new technology and methods for measurement and observation of the ocean.

The programme which will include the annual meeting, invited talks and discussion, oral presentations and posters, breaks and social activities begins at 17:00 Monday 22nd November and ends at 15:00 on Wednesday 24th. The programme will be updated on our web page and will be finalized by early November.

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Welcome to the annual meeting in the Norwegian Association of Marine Scientists (NHF)!

Venue: Solstrand Hotell, Os utanfor Bergen

Dates: 22-24 November 2021

Practical information:

Upload your oral presentation in this form: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=11663182  – select your presentation and upload your file, one day in advance. Make sure the presentation fits the 12 minutes time slot and allow time for questions (3 min).

Posters must be in the A1 or A0 format. We have no print service, so bring the printed poster.

How to get there: Use the Skyss web page or app to find the best route to Osøyro, Bjørnafjorden. From the airport: Take the tram to Nestun, change to bus 600 to Osøyro. From Bergen bus station, bus number 600 leaves every 10 or 15 minutes to Osøyro. From the bus station in Osøyro, there is a nice 1,5 km walk along the sea to the hotel, passing by Steinneset and Solstrandsfjøra.

Link to collection of songs – Norsk havforskerforening

Program Havforskermøtet 2021:

Link to all abstracts: https://www.havforsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/all_abstracts_NHF_2021-2.pdf

Links to case documents and annual report for the annual meeting:

https://www.havforsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Arsmelding-NHF-2020.docx

https://www.havforsk.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Sakliste-arsmote-NHF-2021.docx

Monday 22 
1700  
1800
Annual meeting Norsk havforskerforening. (In Norwegian)  
Opening discussion: Models or data – how do we best see the ocean?  
Morten D. Skogen (HI): Are models better than observations?
Tom Langbehn (UiB): Models and observations combined  
Moderator: Anders F Opdal, UiB
2000Dinner
  Tuesday 23   
0900Observation technology in modern ocean science.
What is state of the art in ocean observation technology? What news do technology bring to the table about organisms in the ocean?  
Tonje Sørdalen (Universitetet i Agder): Monitoring coastal fishes with computer vision
Nils Olav Handegard (HI): Observing fish and plankton with acoustics
Kasper Hancke – (NIVA): Mapping coastal habitats with drones SeaBee
Keno Ferter (HI): Tagging bluefin tuna  
Moderator: Natalya Gallo, UiB  
1045-11Break
1100-1300Presentations  
11:05 Knut Wiik Vollset: Tracking sea trout, cod, wrasse, salmon and sharks around Bergen
11:20 Terje Thorsnes: Mareano på store dyp i Norskehavet
11:35 Yalei Li: Quantifying blue carbon beach deposits using high-resolution UAV imagery
11:50 Hartvig Christie: Benthic mesocosms, a tool to understand complex ecological processes in the coastal zone
12:05 Sünnje L. Basedow: The use of optics and acoustics on gliders and satellites to understand the Lofoten-Vesterålen Marine Ecosystem
12:20 Emilie Hernes Vereide: Impacts of airgun blasts used in seismic surveys on mortality and growth in the copepod Acartia tonsa
12:35 Jonas Thormar: Marine basemaps in the coastal zone – the Fjøløy pilot study of remote sensing-methods for shallow coastal habitat mapping
12:50 Trygve Olav Fossum: Autonom optisk kartlegging av havbunn – Erfaringer fra kartlegging sjav Store Lungegårdsvann
1305-1400Lunch
1400-1520Presentations
14:05 Anders Frugård Opdal: Behavioural plasticity offset thermal drivers of spawning phenology in cod 14:20 Geir Ottersen: Hva spiser torsken – modellstudier på torskens diett og næringsnettet i Barentshavet 14:35 Marta Moyano: The role of food limitation and increased temperature in the recent recruitment failure of North Sea herring
14:50 Maria Grigoratou: Hot and hungry: a trait-based theoretical approach to the direct and indirect effects of heatwaves on plankton communities.
15:05 Josefin Titelman: Parasite disease in coastal zooplankton.
1530-17Poster session
The HypOnFjordFish project – effects of oxygen loss on fish in West Norwegian fjords. Anne Gro Vea Salvanes.
Temperature tolerance and distribution of the invasive non-indigenous red algae Agarophyton vermiculophyllum in seagrass meadows in Norway. Ingvild Sundal Joys.
ScandiFish: A metabarcoding reference database for Scandinavian fish based on MiFish primers. Eivind Stensrud.
eDNA as a monitoring tool for the invasive Neogobius melanostomus. Lars Martin Myhre.
Deep-sea community responses to deoxygenation and reoxygenation in a western Norwegian fjord. Natalya D. Gallo.
A potential laboratory approach to expose animals to pressure drops that occur around a seismic airgun. Karen de Jong.
Correlation between underwater light attenuation and dissolved oxygen. Martine Røysted Solås.
Validation of a species-specific eDNA-based test system for detecting non-indigenous American lobster Homarus americanus. Maud Ødegaard Sundt
  
1930Dinner
  
Wednesday 24 
0900Genetic methods.
What is state-of-the-art in population genetics, genome sequencing, eDNA and metabarcoding? Can we expect a revolution?  
Torild Johansen (HI) Can we separate populations with genetics?
Sissel Jentoft (UiO). Uncovering ecology and evolution of marine fishes using genome sequencing
Kim Præbel (UiT) What can eDNA and meta-barkoding tell us?  
Moderator: Lise Øvreås, UiB  
1045-1100Break
1100-1300Presentations  
11:05 Anders Goksøyr: dCOD 1.0: decoding Ocean Health through a systems toxicology approach
11:20 Gaute W. Seljestad: A cleaner break: Genetic divergence between geographic groups and sympatric phenotypes revealed in ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta)
11:35 Knut Sivertsen: Populasjonsdynamikk og livshistorie hos kråkeboller Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis i tareskog og nedbeitede områder langs norskekysten og Svalbard
11:50 Kristina Øie Kvile: The unknown copepod link between kelp forests, the pelagic ecosystem and deep-sea carbon sequestration
12:05 Miriam Brandt: Metabarcode data for marine biomonitoring – bridging the gap between science and management
12:20 Andreas Altenburger: Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum
12:35 Erwann Legrand: Effect of sea lice chemotherapeutant hydrogen peroxide on the photosynthetic characteristics and bleaching of the coralline alga Lithothamnion soriferum
1300-1400Lunch
1400-1500Presentations  
14:05 Anna Nikolopoulos: Hydrography and circulation in northern Norwegian fjords
14:20 Haakon Hop: The Arctic melt-down with loss of sea ice-associated species
14:35 Setting sail for the future – Statsraad Lehmkuhl’s One Ocean Expedition Katja Enberg
1500Programme ends

Havforskermøtet 2020 on a digital platform

We are moving the 2020 Annual Meeting of Norske Havforskeres Forening online in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There is no participation fee, and the conference will take place October 20-21, 2020 on a digital platform to be announced. Please sign up for attendance by Tuesday September 15 through the link below.

This year’s main topic for Havforskermøtet is “Ocean and Climate”, but as always, we welcome contributions covering any marine subject. Presentations may be given orally or in the form of a digital poster, but are not required for registration.

Sign up here for the Online Annual Meeting Havforskermøtet 2020!