Main research areas
The research work in NorSink is organised in six main work streams/work packages.
Building the Norwegian Community
Lead: Kjetil Aas (CICERO)
Aim: Structure and unify the Norwegian carbon cycle community, including relevant stakeholders.
Growth and Allocation
Lead: Rosie Fisher (CICERO)
Aim: Constrain prognostic models of processes occurring in plants, growth and allocation, through novel data-assimilation of high-resolution data, to enable more robust projections and comparisons with statistical models.
Disturbance and Mortality
Lead: Ryan Bright (NIBIO)
Aim: Build knowledge on emerging disturbance threats in Norwegian forests and apply it to better understand how these might affect Norwegian forest carbon sink resilience over the longer-term.
Decomposition and lateral fluxes
Lead: Heleen de Wit (NIVA)
Aim: Quantify the role of soils and rivers in the Norwegian carbon budget through i) building knowledge on strengths and weakness in soil carbon accumulation modelling approaches, ii) quantifying lateral riverine transport and fate of soil-derived carbon and its link to soil carbon storage.
Coastal and Oceans
Lead: Helene Muri (NILU/NTNU)
Quantify present day uptake of carbon in Norwegian ocean and coastal ecosystems, assess historical and future trends, and the potential of oceanic carbon management for increasing sinks.
Framing and synthesis
Lead: Glen Peters (CICERO)
Aim: Provide framing, model set up, gap-filling, and synthesis elements, and compile the final Norwegian carbon budget for the historical period and for future management and climate scenarios.