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Asgeir Moe Haug
Helle Mølgaard Sommer
Trygve Heide
Research infrastructure
We deliver tailor-made solutions and facilities that enable NIVA's researchers to solve our clients' challenges in the best possible way.
Freshwater ecology
NIVA's sections on Freshwater Ecology have expertise in the monitoring and restoration of freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity. We develop knowledge and understanding that provide a basis for applied, evidence-based freshwater management.
Environmental data science
The Section for Environmental Data Science manages and quality assures NIVA's data and makes them available to NIVA's researchers.
Catchment biogeochemistry
The section for catchment biogeochemistry works to understand how various pollutants are spread in the environment and how they affect the water quality in rivers, lakes, and fjords. Our studies lay the foundation for and support political guidelines and improvements to reduce unwanted environmental impacts.
Analytical Chemistry
Ecotoxicology Laboratory
Microplastics lab
Lower levels of contaminants along the Norwegian coast – but still high concentrations of mercury in cod in some urban areas
ZeroPM: Zero Pollution from Persistent, Mobile Substances
Pollutants in an Urban Fjord
The program aims to map the levels of pollutants present in a fjord in a densely populated area and how the pollution is concentrated in the food web in the fjord system.
PlasticTrace
The PlasticTrace project addressed the urgent need to develop and harmonise methods for identifying, characterising, and quantifying small micro- and nanoplastics (SMPs/NPs) in drinking water, food, and environmental matrices, in line with the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP).
Microplastics in coastal areas, rivers and lakes (Mikronor)
"Monitoring of microplastics in coastal areas, rivers and lakes" is a monitoring programme that aims to increase knowledge about the extent of microplastic pollution in Norway.
Car tires and environmental impact
Environmental technology lab
The Membrane Lab
NIVA partner in two newly funded JPI Aquatic Pollutions projects
New research informs about environmental effects of pharmaceutical discharges from hospitals
A comprehensive Norwegian study has investigated the environmental effects of pharmaceutical discharges via wastewater from hospitals. Some drugs may pose a hazard to the environment, while for several drugs we lack knowledge about the effects on aquatic life.