will focus on extended ecological fieldwork at the AWI’s deep-sea observatory Hausgarten and at the FRAM Ocean Observing System between Greenland and Svalbard. 50 researchers and a ship’s crew of 24 will

such changes, the research teams on board the Polarstern investigated Atlantic Water Recirculation in Fram Strait and in the marginal ice zone north of Svalbard, as well as ocean/glacier interactions off the

Arctic Expedition
On Whit Monday, 24 May 2021, the Polarstern will set sail for the Arctic. In Fram Strait, between Greenland and Svalbard, more than 50 participating scientists will resume the long-term

studies at a major long-term monitoring station in the Arctic: the AWI’s Hausgarten observatory in the Fram Strait, where experts from various disciplines are investigating all aspects of the ecosystem, from

Press release

Logistics International/national collaboration: Expeditions 2024 to the Arctic PS143/1 & PS143/2; Project: FRAM HAUSGARTEN Frank Wenzhöfer & Katja Metfies (GPF23-1_013) Goals: • Long-term ecological research in [...] E-Mail Participants: 2 x 50 Free berths: - Period: June - August 2024 Days at sea : 61 Working Area: Fram Strait Disciplines: Marine Technology, Physical Oceanography, Long-Term Observations (LTO), Long-Term [...] forms part of a framework of international consortia (GEOTRACES, ArcWatch-LTO). It is supported by FRAM observatory technology, and contributes to a time series of four expeditions to the CAO in the POF4

doi:10.1073/pnas.2301954120 Hossain, A. , 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

enumeration of toxic algae such as Pseudnitzschia sp. , or different species of the genus Alexandrium sp . FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic Marine Monitoring) The development of a standardized molecular observation strategy [...] marine eukaryotic microbes is tightly linked and directly contributes to the establishment of the FRAM microbial observatory that aims to monitor and understand how ongoing environmental changes affect [...] microbial communities and how these changes will alter their role in global element cycling. Within FRAM our group carries out all research related to the development, evaluation and standardization of molecular

alkenones, etc.) to reconstruct 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

varying resolutions, are not well understood. Emerging research suggests a complex interplay between the Fram Strait Sea Ice Export (FSSIE) and the AMO, pointing to a critical, yet underexplored, feedback mechanism