• Projects

    Pseudnitzschia sp. , or different species of the genus Alexandrium sp . FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic Marine Monitoring) The development of a standardized molecular observation strategy for marine eukaryotic microbes [...] tightly linked and directly contributes to the establishment of the FRAM microbial observatory that aims to monitor and understand how ongoing environmental changes affect Arctic marine prokaryotic and [...] 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 methods for surveillance

  • Freedom!

    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

    , 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 observations that began at

  • Higher life at the deep seafloor

    in deep-sea meiofauna at the LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait (Arctic Ocean). MDPI - Diversity 12 (7). doi: 10.3390/d12070279 Käß, M., Vedenin, A., Hasemann, C., Brandt, A., Soltwedel, T. (2019). Community structure of macrofauna in the deep Fram Strait: A comparison between two bathymetric gradients in ice-covered and ice-free areas. Deep-Sea Research I 152 (103102). doi: [...] at the long-term ecological research observatory HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait). Journal of Marine Systems 172: 160-177. Taylor, J., Krumpen, T., Soltwedel, T., Gutt, J., Bergmann, M. (2017): Dynamic

  • Hausgarten Expedition ends

    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 there, the approximately 50

  • What calling and singing reveal about bowhead whales

    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 at the Alfred Wegener Institute

  • Polarstern Departs on Arctic Expedition

    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 be on board.

  • Unique communities directly under the Arctic ice

    are and how they are affected by the melting ice in the northern Fram Strait. They present their findings in the journal Science of The Total Environment .

  • Anniversary in the far north

    ” 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 is the first, and still the only

  • Polarstern sets course for the HAUSGARTEN Arctic long-term observatory

    launched an ambitious project: the HAUSGARTEN observatory in the Fram Strait between northeast Greenland and Svalbard. Spanning ice-covered waters and extending to depths of more than 5,500 metres, this