• Pre-Quaternary

    . , Knorr, G. , Jokat, W. and Lohmann, G. (2021): Opening of the Fram Strait led to the establishment of a modern-like three-layer stratification in the Arctic Ocean during the Miocene , arktos . doi:

  • peer-review

    interannual variability of phytoplankton community composition in Fram Strait using ship-based high-frequency spectrophotometric measurements from 2015 to 2024. Deep-Sea Research Part II 105568. Topical [...] Wiegmann S., Bracher A. (2018) Underway spectrophotometry in the Fram Strait (European Arctic Ocean): a highly resolved chlorophyll a data source for complementing satellite ocean color. Optics Express [...] Arctic Ocean – Overview of long-term summer measurements in the Fram Strait Variability of chlorophyll a distribution in the Fram Strait, Greenland Sea and Central Arctic Ocean. Polar Research34: 23349

  • Deep Sea

    . In 1999, the institute established a long-term observatory in Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. Today, the HAUSGARTEN observatory consists of 21 monitoring stations at depths of between 250 [...] responses in the deep-sea ecosystem. This can already be seen in Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland, where the composition of the phytoplankton has changed. Whereas, in past decades, more diatoms [...] untouched by time. Even in remote regions like the floor of Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, the number of these large bits of litter has grown substantially in recent years. Moreover,

  • Microplastics

    Claudia Lorenz (DBU stipend), Sebastian Primpke and Gunnar Gerdts) Fram Pollution Observatory / Microplastics in the Arctic (in-house project; PIs: Melanie Bergmann, Ilka Peeken and Gunnar Gerdts) “

  • Moorings

    biogeochemical sensors distributed over a certain area (e.g. in the Fram Strait or in the Weddell Sea) over a period of several years or even decades. This has been done at the AWI for a long time and forms

  • Members

    Scholz (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daniel Scholz - Within the FRAM project (Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring), my responsibilities are the development, deployment, calibration and data validation of [...] to monitor nutrients and carbonate chemistry parameters in the Fram Strait and the Central Arctic Ocean. To monitor such parameters in the ocean, it is common practice to analyze discrete water samples

  • Completed Projects

    ESM on Twitter @project_esm More information about this project FRAM FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring Our ability to understand the complex interactions of biological, chemical, physical, and [...] infrastructures. The main purpose of the open-ocean infrastructure FRAM is permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the provision of near real-time data on Earth system dynamics, climate [...] and ecosystem change. The Climate Dynamics section supports the FRAM infrastructure program with high-resolution ocean and sea-ice simulations. Vibe Schourup-Kristensen | Claudia Wekerle More information

  • Invited Talks

    community composition to temperature and sea ice properties in Fram Strait. GEOMAR Biogeochemistry Seminar, Kiel, Germany, 13 January 2026. 2025 Bracher A . (2025) Possible Use of Flex Data for Aquatic

  • Proxy Development

    Atlantic are pushing further north into the Arctic Ocean through the Fram Strait. This is a recent and ongoing phenomenon, and understanding its pace and extent requires archives with a very different kind

  • Projects

    surface-water characteristics in the (sub-) polar North Atlantic (Fram Strait, Greenland Sea, Baffin Bay) and their changes through late Quaternary times. Of special interest will be the interrelationship