week was characterized by intense station work both in the West Spitsbergen Current and in central Fram Strait.

and an updated Arctic Ocean climatology. This work was funded by the FRAM project: www.awi.de/en/expedition/observatories/ocean-fram.html Publication : Behrendt, A., Sumata, H., Rabe, B., and Schauer, U

investigated what these organisms are and how they are affected by the melting ice in the northern Fram Strait. They present their findings in the journal Science of The Total Environment .

the marine habitats of the High North. This is indicated by data from long-term observations in the Fram Strait, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have now analysed. Their most important

operating in our study area, i.e. the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) Observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.

produced onboard from seawater, has noticeably changed. The closer we got to our research area in the Fram Strait, the stronger the characteristic slight sulfurous taste became. This is a sign of large amounts

Helmholtz Infrastructure Initiative FRAM ( Fr ontiers in A rctic Marine M onitoring). The long-term observatory Hausgarten is a network of twenty stations in the Fram Strait, whose coordinates are re-visited

first drift expedition of its kind on his sailing ship Fram. Nansen’s goal was to take his ship beyond the Siberian islands. Once there, the Fram would – accord- ing to his projections – be carried across [...] ships a proper send-off, complete with speeches, music and a ceremo- ny, just as was done for Nansen’s Fram expedition 126 years ago. Let’s all get our handkerchiefs ready, because giv- en all the emotions [...] expedition was planned to include twelve men and take five years to complete. On 25 June 1893 the Fram left the port of Oslo, departing for its unprecedented polar expedition. Nansen had his (wooden) research

2 , Fram Strait, Bremerhaven-Tromsö; 6 Jun-3 Jul 2014 SHIVASonne SO235 (OASIS-2), Indic Ocean, Port Luis (Mauritius) to Male (Malediven), Jul to Aug 2014 RV Polarstern, ARK XXIX-2.2 (PS93.2), Fram Strait [...] Polarstern, PS99, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Jun-Jul 2016 RV Polarstern, PS103, Atlantic Southern Ocean, Capetown to Punta Arenas, Dec 2016-Feb 2017 RV Polarstern, PS107, Fram Strait, Tromsö to [...] 2019 RV Polarstern, PS121, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Aug-Sep 2019 RV Kormoran, BS1, Lake Constance, Langenargen to Langenargen, Mar 2020 RV Maria S. Merian, MSM 93, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to

(2018) Retrieval of phytoplankton pigments and functional types from underway spectrophotometry in the Fram Strait. Extended abstract to Ocean Optics XXIV conference, Dubrovnik, 7 October 2018 - 12 October