• The expedition comes to an end

    4 September 2016
    Today we have completed our research programme at the Knipovich Ridge south of Fram Strait. We are now on the transit toward Tromsø, where we will arrive in the morning of 6 September

  • Turbulent recirculation

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

  • The Expedition PS 99 from Bremerhaven to Tromsø

    lead to study areas northwest of Bear Island, south of Spitsbergen and in the central and eastern Fram Strait.

  • Human imprints and final considerations

    here on board assessing anthropogenic impacts on the marine ecosystem on our way from Bremerhaven to Fram Strait (and back) and at HAUSGARTEN observatory.

  • Freedom!

    indispensable “single punishment” on Pentecost Monday, May 24, and set sail for our expedition to the Fram Strait, the passage between Greenland and Spitsbergen.

  • Polarstern Sets Sail for the Arctic

    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

  • Hausgarten Expedition ends

    the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from its roughly one month-long Arctic expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten of the Alfred Wegener Institute

  • What calling and singing reveal about bowhead whales

    reproduce beneath the sea ice northwest of Spitsbergen, while using the open water in the eastern Fram Strait as a migration corridor. This conclusion comes from researchers in the Ocean Acoustics Group

  • Polarstern Departs on Arctic Expedition

    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

  • Anniversary in the far north

    Research (AWI) laid the “foundation stone” for a unique long-term observatory in the partly ice-covered Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, which they call their HAUSGARTEN. The deep-sea observatory