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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2016, edited by Torsten Kanzow 704 (2016) The Expeditions PS99.1 and PS99.2 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2016, edited by Thomas

2015, edited by Ilka Peeken 693 (2015) The Expedition PS93.2 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2015, edited by Thomas Soltwedel 692 (2015) Antarctic Specific Features of the Greenhouse

data will help us to quantify the role of clouds in the lower Arctic atmosphere over the Northern Fram Strait. Similar to ACLOUD our strategy during AFLUX is to measure in, above, and below clouds with [...] weather maps from different prediction models showed that a cold-air outbreak began to evolve over Fram Strait. The maps predict that this outbreak will last over several days so that we can expect good [...] over sea ice was flown and combined cloud radar and drop sonde measurements followed over the open Fram Strait during the way back from North to South. Total campaign flight hours this week (airtime: 11