Partners/Collaborating team

Principal investigator (leder of each individual project) 1: Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), University of Oslo, Norway

Overall coordinator/principal investigator (PI) and co-PI for work package 1 is Prof. Nils Christian Stenseth. Specific involvement: Project management, coordinator and writing reports.

Other recognized researcher:

  • Dr. Per Erik Jorde. Specific involvement: microsatellite genotyping; statistical data analyses and modelling; computer simulations work package 1 and 5 (WP1, WP5).

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DOPPrinsipal investigator 2: Dept. of Oceanography and Fisheries (IMAR/DOP), IMAR-University of the Azores, Portugal

Local coordinator/Prinsipal investigator: Dr. Sergio Stefanni. Specific involvement: mitochondrial and genomic DNA sequencing (WP3, WP5). 

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MarBEEPrinsipal investigator 3: MarBEE, School of Biological & Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland

Local coordinator/Prinsipal investigator: Dr. Stefano Mariani. Specific involvement: coordination of part of microsatellite screening (WP1, WP5) and otolith trace element analyses (WP2). Associate partner: Dr Francis Neat.

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IMRPrinsipal investigator 4: Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway

Local coordinator/PI: Dr. Halvor Knutsen. Specific involvement: sample acquisition, microsatellite DNA-screening and data analysis (WP1, WP5).

Other recognised researcher:

  • Dr. M.D. Skogen, oceanographic modelling (WP4)

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