SINTEF SeaLab

SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture has several laboratories for analyses and testing of models and processes

Our laboratories in Trondheim, SINTEF SeaLab, are now located at Brattørkaia in Trondheim harbour.  Most of the marine water related activities are now located at one location. The SINTEF SeaLab includes close to 3500 m2 of exposure facilities and laboratories. The laboratories were officially opened August 9. 2005

The laboratores are equipped with a continuous supply of high quality natural sea water and waste water system for pollutants and are certified for work with higher organisms. The activities are basically divided into two categories:

• Marine environmental technology with a focus on experimental, monitoring and modelling studies connected with both acute and regular releases of oil and chemicals to the marine and terrestrial environment, and
• Fisheries and Aquaculture where the focus is on exploiting renewable marine resources throughout the marine value chain - from the biological basis of marine production through aquaculture and fish capture techniques to processing and distribution.

The marine environmental facility includes support laboratories for physical and chemical tracing of oil spills, produced water, drilling discharges and organic/inorganic pollutants, for microbiology and ecotoxicology. It offers several large scale facilities specialised for low temperature work (down ti -20C) simulating arctic conditions. A meso scale flume basin of 12x4 m (depth 2 m) is located in a temperature controlled room.  Contact:

The fisheries and aquaculture related laboratories include laboratories for a wide range of processes and chemical analyses related to marine biomass including extensive lipid analyses, DNA, microbiology. Facilities for production and studies of live feed, hatching and juveniles of different species and a processing facility for marine raw material including the possibility to follow a complete processing line and optimise the technological solutions, or to study different processes and equipment included in different phases of such a line. (Contact: Harry Westavik)