This project is supported by a personal frame-grant (336,960 DKR) to Professor Hans Ulrik Riisgård from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences, DFF-4002-00494, (Det Frie Forskningsråd/Natur og Univers, sagsnummer 4002-00494) in the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2017.

The project focuses on several basic problems, among these the following questions: What is the energetic cost of jellyfish water processing (swimming and filter feeding), and to what degree is viscosity (i.e. pure physics) rather than biological mechanisms controlling the effects of temperature? The suggested studies on swimming, feeding and other bio-mechanical activities in jellyfish are designed to answer these questions of fundamental importance for understanding the impact of jellyfish in the sea with expected future creasing temperatures. See full application on this link.