years. In January 2016 the research network will start. Research partners in the project are the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Leipzig University, the University of Bremen, the University of Cologne and the

and Northwest Passages are mostly ice-free already. Scientists from Universität Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) estimate that the ice extent will not hit a record low in 2015 but confirm the

In 1999, the Alfred Wegener Institute launched an ambitious project: the HAUSGARTEN observatory in the Fram Strait between northeast Greenland and Svalbard. Spanning ice-covered waters and extending to

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Facilities, and Data Interaction with Stakeholders EU-PolarNet Work Package Leaders (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

decades of the 21st century. The establishment of multidisciplinary ocean observatories by the Alfred Wegener Institute will help to provide the means to accomplish this goal. Ecological time-series work

Ice-Tethered Profiler Working principle of an Ice-Tethered Profiler (Rick Krishfield, WHOI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITPs) are autonomous, freely drifting measurement platforms [...] from the IBCAO Atlas and is shown in blue shading (in meters from the water surface). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Images from the fish transport test run (Photo: S. Zeytin-Schüning, Alfred Wegener Institute) (Photo: S. Zeytin-Schüning, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The fish transporter is being prepared for the experiment

Solar altitude, daily maximum and minimum at Neumayer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Day and night at Neumayer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Civil Twilight: The sun is less that 6° below the horizon

Southern Ocean phytoplankton ecology? The diatom Chaetoceros debilis. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Primary production by phytoplankton is governed by several factors such as light and [...] under a changing climate. Contact: Franziska Pausch Franziska Pausch. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)