workpackages within the Helmholtz PACES-II programme and the Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring (FRAM) strategic investment,Reviewer for several oceanographic and geophysical journals,Reviewer of funding

of October 2018 MARIA S. MERIAN-BERICHTE LTER HAUSGARTEN 2018 Long-Term Ecological Research in the Fram Strait Cruise No. MSM77 September 15 – October 13, 2018 Longyearbyen (Svalbard) – Edinburgh (Scotland) [...] Mineralization…………...….. 44 5.6 Experimental Work at the LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN…………………..…. 48 5.7 The FRAM Pollution Observatory: Marine Anthropogenic Litter and Microplastics in different Arctic Ecosyste [...] MERIAN contributed to various large national and international research and infrastructure projects (FRAM, ARCHES, INTAROS, ICOS, SIOS) as well as to the research programme PACES-II (Polar Regions and Coasts

The cruise had two main working areas: the deep-sea long-term observatory HAUSGARTEN in the eastern Fram Strait, and the long-term Kongsfjord transect (3 sites on the continental shelf off Svalbard). HAUSGARTEN [...] Die Fahrt hatte 2 Arbeitsgebiete: das Tiefsee Langzeit-Observatorium HAUSGARTEN in der östlichen FRAM-Straße und drei Stationen entlang des Kongsfjord Langzeit-Transektes am westlichen Kontinentalhang [...] now only open-ocean long-term station in a polar region. The HAUSGARTEN observatory in the eastern Fram Strait includes 17 permanent sampling sites (Fig. 3.1) along a depth transect from Vestnesa Ridge

inflow leaves the Arctic Ocean through Fram Strait so that the volume flow is not balanced to be zero. To quantify the variation of volume, heat and salt fluxes through Fram Strait, an array of moorings is [...] salinity in the WSC in Fram Strait were highest in the 10-year observation record. An increase of the AW spatial coverage was also observed. The current pattern in the northern Fram Strait is very irregular [...] 3 Narrative of the cruise 4-5 4.4 Preliminary results 4-9 4.4.1 Hydrography and circulation in the Fram Strait 4-9 4.4.2 Ecosystems time series studies and experimental work in the deep Arctic Ocean 4-24

Figure 1: Map with the sixteen sampling stations at HAUSGARTEN HAUSGARTEN observatory in the eastern Fram Strait includes 16 permanent sampling - 37 - sites along a depth transect (1000 - 5500 m) and along [...] 311-354. Soltwedel, T., M. Miljutina, et al. (2003). “The meiobenthos of the Molloy Deep (5600 m), Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean.” Vie et milieu 53(1): 1-13. - 44 - 3.3 The role of biological disturbance for [...] general, the disturbance by larger organisms is excluded. “HAUSGARTEN” is situated in the eastern Fram Strait off Spitsbergen and represents the first long-term station in polar regions. The central station

from the Fram Strait. The analyses of living and dead foraminifera in the "Hausgarten" area will contribute to the modern data Set to allow for palaeoproductivity reconstructions in northern Fram Strait [...] avait recupere un engin largue par le "Polarstern" quelques semaines auparavant dans le detroit de Fram. Tot dans la matinee du 27 aoŸt le "Lance" a ete apercu sur fond du magnifique paysage du Svalbard [...] "Lance" had a system of us onboard which was deployed several weeks before by "Polarstern" in the Fram Strait. In the early morning of the 2 7 of August "Lance" was sighted in front of the beautifully

deployed. We also took many water and sediment samples and videos which are part of the work of the FRAM infrastructure. This has kept many of us busy, but also happy with the success. We will tell you more

Alfred-Wegener-Institut) If we can realistically simulate the past and present processes at work in the Fram Strait, we can then calculate projections for the future. I work with FESOM, the Finite Element Sea [...] ocean currents, hydrography and sea ice. I’m currently using FESOM to simulate the circulation in the Fram Strait, which is located between Greenland and Svalbard and represents one of the most important

research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic, monitoring ocean currents at our deep-sea moorings in the Fram Strait and the Weddell Sea, and the data from our sea-ice buoys drifting through the Antarctic and

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