• Publications, Contributions & Outreach Activities - AWI OZA

    multi-year analysis of acoustic occurrence and habitat use of blue and fin whales in eastern and central Fram Strait. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0314369. DOI: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314369 Trathan PN, Savoca [...] Acoustic presence and vocal repertoire of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in eastern and central Fram Strait. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/f Contributions to books Boebel [...] Spiesecke S, Thomisch K (2020). Vocal behaviour of bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) in eastern Fram Strait. Paper SC/68/NH/03 presented at the Scientific Committee Meeting of the IWC. Available from:

  • Sofia Kuzmina

    sofia.kuzmina@awi.de
    Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • non-peer reviewed articles

    (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

  • peer-review

    changing Arctic Ocean – Overview of long-term summer measurements in the Fram Strait Variability of chlorophyll a distribution in the Fram Strait, Greenland Sea and Central Arctic Ocean. Polar Research34: 23349 [...] Nöthig E.-M. (2026) Resolving the interannual variability of phytoplankton community composition in Fram Strait using ship-based high-frequency spectrophotometric measurements from 2015 to 2024. Deep-Sea [...] Summertime in situ chlorophyll a and particulate organic carbon standing stocks in surface waters of the Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean (1991 – 2015). Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 350. doi: 10.3389/fmars

  • 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

  • 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