Contact Person:

Duncan Halley

Calls that NINA researchers are interested in:

• LC-CLA-11-2020
• LC-CLA-17-2020
• SC5-33-2020

Areas of Expertise

NINA’s activities encompass resource assessment and monitoring, development of methodologies, environmental impact assessments, community-based resource management, and analysis of natural, anthropogenic and socio-economic aspects of biodiversity and resource management. Areas of research expertise include:

• Ecosystem services
• Sustainable harvesting of salmonid fish species, cervids and small game stocks
• Monitoring and analysing time series data of species including plants, terrestrial birds and seabirds, insects and ecosystems health (terrestrial, freshwater)
• Producing national indicators and reports on different aspects of biodiversity
• Climate change impacts and adaptation
• Environmental impact assessment related to land use change
• Nature restoration
• Land use and landscape analyses
• Analyses of conflicts related to utilization of natural resources including coexistence with large predators
• Recreational and traditional uses of nature
• Nature friendly development of renewable energy production (hydroelectric power, on- and offshore wind power plants, transmission lines)
• Evaluation of ecosystem condition and developing tools for ecosystem management
• Interpretation of remote sensing
• Green transformation