we monitor the Atlantic Water in the West Spitsbergen Current in Fram Strait by use of an oceanographic mooring array since 1997. Surface waters are densified through cooling and brine release during [...] that transfer the warm Atlantic water from the return flow in Fram Strait towards the 79°N glacier which is the main outlet glacier onto the shelf east of Greenland. The Shelf Seas The Shelf Seas [...] -1813 claudia.wekerle @ awi.de Associated projects MIDO project FRAM infrastructure Arctic LTOs

maintained during 2008-2009. The four major Arctic gateways (Davis, Fram, Bering Straits and BSO) are highlighted by orange circles. Each box shows length of observations maintained by six different research [...] Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway for the Barents Sea Opening (BSO); and the University [...] T. Kanzow; Dr. M. Karcher AWI and Arctic boundary PIs in Davis , Fram, Bering Straits and Barents Sea opening (BSO)

an updated Arctic Ocean climatology. This work was funded by the FRAM project: www.awi.de/en/expedition/observatories/ocean-fram.html Publication : Behrendt, A., Sumata, H., Rabe, B., and Schauer, U.:

- Barents Sea CAO - Central Arctic Ocean CS - Chukchi Sea FS - Fram Strait GS - Greenland Sea LaS - Laptev Sea LiS - Lincoln Sea IceBird Impressions IceBird-Impressions IceBird-Impressions IceBird-Impressions

working group Dr. Katja Metfies HIFMB Cooperations HIFMB PEBCAO FRAM PrimePrevention MareExtreme Obama_Next Scientific approach Technology Projects Team

will be taken in the future mainly as part of projects such as FRAM, LTER HAUSGARTEN, PEBCAO in different regions of the Arctic Ocean. The main goal of our arctic research is to understand and follow [...] Christiane Lorenzen in association with PEBCAO GROUP LTER HAUSGARTEN FRAM Investigations since 1991 Investigations since 1991 Phyto- and Protozooplankton Protist plankton in FRAM strait surface water: top [...] analysis between 1991 and 2013, during summer months. While in FRAM strait and on the arctic shelves, a relatively high proportion of biomass was being observed, the proportion of biomass in central

2022. Phytoplankton functional types observation from space in the Fram Strait (2002-2020). ESA Ocean Carbon from Space Workshop, Online event, 14 – 18 February 2022. Poster.​ Bracher A. (2021) S5P+-I-OC

Isotope Facility Bremerhaven Nutrient Facility Observatories Ocean: FRAM Water: COSYNA Meteorology Geophysics Ships Polarstern Heincke Uthörn Mya II Aade Stations Neumayer Station III Arctic Station AWIPEV

analysis of blue whale and fin whale vocalisations in the eastern Fram Strait offers valuable insights into seasonal and annual patterns regarding these species’ occurrence in the region. For example,

. In 1999, the institute established a long-term observatory in Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. Today, the HAUSGARTEN observatory consists of 21 monitoring stations at depths of between 250 [...] responses in the deep-sea ecosystem. This can already be seen in Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland, where the composition of the phytoplankton has changed. Whereas, in past decades, more diatoms [...] untouched by time. Even in remote regions like the floor of Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, the number of these large bits of litter has grown substantially in recent years. Moreover,