• With high-tech in the deep sea

    operating in our study area, i.e. the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) Observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.

  • Arctic_en

    methods successfully reproduce the degree and spatial distribution of the average ice coverage in the Fram Strait and Nordic Seas ( Müller et al., 2011 ; Spielhagen et al., 2015). At the AWI (partly in cooperation

  • Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

    later, when the ice has drifted towards Greenland via the North Pole and leaves the Arctic through Fram Strait. This study also includes data from the MOSAiC expedition.

  • Human imprints and final considerations

    here on board assessing anthropogenic impacts on the marine ecosystem on our way from Bremerhaven to Fram Strait (and back) and at HAUSGARTEN observatory.

  • Hausgarten Expedition ends

    the research icebreaker Polarstern 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

  • ABYSS

    a wide range of molecular tools. One of our main study sites is the LTER observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait. The main tasks of the ABYSS are: to identify the most common bacterial taxa in deep-sea surface

  • Experimental work at the deep seafloor

    Hasemann, C., Vedenin, A., Bergmann, M., Taylor, J. , Krauß, F. (2018): Bioturbation rates in the deep Fram Strait: Results from long-term in situ experiments at the arctic LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN. Journal

  • Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

    Observatory (HAFOS) and the Frontiers in Arctic Marine Science (FRAM) observatory, which are distributed across the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait, respectively. See the maps to the right for of the recording [...] depth, i.e. 2m above the sea floor, and the anchor (old railroad wheels). FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic Marine Science) The AWIs FRAM moorings also host a set of underwater recorders in the northern Greenland [...] Greenland. Further moorings in the adjacent Arctic Ocean extend this array slightly to the North. MAP of FRAM moorings hosting PAM recorders an AZFPs. Please note, that not all locations were occupied at all

  • Research icebreaker Polarstern departs for the Fram Strait

    oceanographic measurements and biological research in the water column and on the seafloor of the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard.

  • Meltwater influences ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean

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    In the summer months, sea ice from the Arctic drifts through Fram Strait into the Atlantic. Thanks to meltwater, a stable layer forms around the drifting ice atop the more salty seawater [...] as a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now determined with the aid of the FRAM ocean observation system. Their findings have just been published in the journal Nature Communications