• Invited Talks

    (2026): Linkages of phytoplankton community composition to temperature and sea ice properties in Fram Strait. GEOMAR Biogeochemistry Seminar, Kiel, Germany, 13 January 2026. 2025 Bracher A . (2025) Possible

  • LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

    Wegener Institute established the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) observatory HAUSGARTEN in the Fram Strait. HAUSGARTEN observatory displays 21 permanent stations covering a water depth range of 250 [...] HAUSGARTEN observatory is successively extended within the frame of the HGF infrastructure project FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring). Contact: T. Soltwedel, M. Bergmann, C. Hasemann , E.-M. Nöthig

  • 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

  • Brochures and Reports

    Regions Knowledge on fish and their ecology in the Arctic Ocean Brochures AWI image brochure Brochure FRAM FOCUS on: Climate Research Brochure Coastal Research Brochure Climate Research Brochure Polar Ecosystems

  • Team

    Steinhöfel-Sasgen, Grit Postdoc Terbrüggen, Anja Engineer Torres Valdes, Sinhue Senior Scientist, "FRAM" Völker, Christoph Senior Scientist Wuttig, Kathrin Postdoc Wollenburg, Jutta Senior Scientist Ye

  • Completed Projects

    Thomas Rackow | Tido Semmler Follow 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 [...] and interdisciplinary observation 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 variability and ecosystem change. The Climate Dynamics section supports the FRAM infrastructure program with high-resolution ocean and sea-ice simulations. Vibe Schourup-Kristensen

  • Sea Ice Thickness - Mass Balance

    determines the sea ice volume flux in Fram Strait region and other key areas. Results are used to quantify whether coupled sea ice ocean models are capable of reproducing Fram Strait sea ice volume fluxes correctly [...] of Arctic sea ice are changes of ice volume export rates through major gates of the Arctic, such as Fram Strait. The Sea Ice Physics group investigates to what extent ice volume loss through major export

  • Arctic Zooplankton

    php/cleopatra-ii ) Transdrift: The transpolar system of the Arctic Ocean: ( www.transdrift.info ) Fram: Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring Members of the working group PD. Dr. Barbara Niehoff (head) Dr. Astrid

  • Little researched current impacting on winter sea ice in the Arctic

    that flows from Europe’s Norwegian Sea into the Arctic Ocean, passing through the Barents Sea and the Fram Strait in the process. However, not all the Atlantic water flowing into the Barents Sea reaches the

  • Tara Polar Station

    starting in summer 2026. Before this, different test campaigns are planned, including a shorter drift in Fram Strait in summer 2025 and winter experiments in Svalbard. Tara Polar Station in Lorient, France, in