Bear Island, south of Spitsbergen and in the central and eastern Fram Strait.

floristic and functional shifts in future climate scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic long-term observatory FRAM (Frontiers of Arctic Monitoring) . Based on innovative developments as well as approved technologies, this project will enable the [...] and temporal resolution in the future. The foundation of the FRAM observatory is the preexisting long-term observatory 'Hausgarten' in the Fram Strait, which connects the Arctic and the Atlantic

LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) Observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.

of expedition PS101 we are making our way home through the ice. A FRAM “superbuoy” station needs to be rescued before we leave the ice.

surveys. Our focus areas are the boundary current from the Fram Strait to the Siberian Arctic and the upper Arctic basin. There is a strong link between the variability of physical parameters in [...] Atlantic water in the Eurasian Basin and the contribution of the Fram Strait inflow branch to the Arctic Ocean heat budget ,Progress in Oceanography, 132 , pp. 128-152 .doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2014.04.003 [...] Arctic Ocean through the Barents Sea or Fram Strait. In the eastern Fram Strait, Atlantic Water flows northward in the West Spitsbergen Current… Find out more Central Arctic

and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany ( OCEANET , ACENMAP , FRAM ) Institute of Marine Sciences, Mediterranean Marine and Environmental Research Centre (ICM, CSIC), Barcelona, Spain ( Phytoscope ) [...] -3 ) Technical University of Denmark , Charlottenlund, Denmark ( FRAM , PhD R. Goncalves Araujo ) Norwegian Polar Institute , Tromsö, Norway ( FRAM , PhD R. Goncalves Araujo ) ACRI-ST , Sophia Antippolis

to Aug 2014 RV Polarstern, ARK XXIX-2.2 (PS93.2), Fram Strait, Tromsö to Tromsö, Jul-Aug 2015 RV SONNE, SO243 (ASTRA), Guayaquil (Equador) to Antofagasta (Chile), Oct 2015 RVHeincke, He462 [...] 2017 RV Polarstern, PS107, Fram Strait, Tromsö to Tromsö, Jul-Aug 2017 RV Polarstern, PS113, Atlantc Ocean, Punta Arenas-Bremerhaven, May-Jun 2018 RVHeincke, He535 [...] , MSM 93, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Bremerhaven, Jun-Jul 2020 RV Kormoran, BS2, Lake Constance, Langenargen to Langenargen, Aug/Sep 2020 References

will be taken in the future mainly as part of projects such as FRAM, LTER HAUSGARTEN, PEBCAO in different regions of the Arctic Ocean. The main goal of our arctic research is to understand and follow [...] Christiane Lorenzen in association with PEBCAO GROUP LTER HAUSGARTEN FRAM Investigations since 1991 Investigations since 1991 Phyto- and Protozooplankton Protist plankton in FRAM strait surface water: top [...] analysis between 1991 and 2013, during summer months. While in FRAM strait and on the arctic shelves, a relatively high proportion of biomass was being observed, the proportion of biomass in central

FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring) HGF infrastructur programme Duration: 01.08.2014 - 31.07.2021 Coordination: Antje Boetius, AWI, Bremerhaven The FRAM Ocean Observing System will be installed in the gateway between the North Atlantic and the Central Arctic, representing a highly climate-sensitive and rapidly changing region of the Earth system. FRAM will implement existing and next-generation sensors and observatory platforms, allowing synchronous observation of relevant ocean

, E., Nöthig, E.-M. (2019). Pelagic Amphipods in the Eastern Fram Strait With Continuing Presence of Themisto compressa Based on Sediment Trap Time Series , Frontiers in Marine Science 6 (311), doi [...] matter from upper waters to the seafloor in the deep eastern Fram Strait. Deep-Sea Research I 114: 78-89. Nöthig, E.-M., Bracher, A., Engel, A., Metfies, K., Niehoff, B., Peeken, I., Bauerfeind, E. [...] Bathmann, U. (2013): Amphipods in sediment traps of the eastern Fram Strait with focus on the life history of the lysianassoid Cyclocaris guilelmi . Deep-Sea Research I 73: 62-72.