Claudia Lorenz (DBU stipend), Sebastian Primpke and Gunnar Gerdts) Fram Pollution Observatory / Microplastics in the Arctic (in-house project; PIs: Melanie Bergmann, Ilka Peeken and Gunnar Gerdts) “

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.

expeditions. Our expeditions mainly take us to three focus regions: Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, the Eurasian sector of the Arctic Ocean, and the Weddell Sea in the Atlantic sector of the

). Deep-sea benthic communities and oxygen fluxes in the Arctic Fram Strait controlled by sea-ice cover and water depth. Biogeosciences 15: 4849-4869. Braeckman, U., Janssen, F., Lavik, G., Elvert, M.

): Deep-sea benthic communities and oxygen fluxes in the Arctic Fram Strait controlled by sea-ice cover and water depth. Biogeosciences 15: 4849-4869. Braeckman, U., Janssen, F., Lavik, G., Elvert, M. [...] margins - A case study at the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait). PLoS ONE 10(10): e01383. Boetius, A., Wenzhöfer, F. (2013): Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane from cold seeps

board the Polarstern investigated Atlantic Water Recirculation in Fram Strait and in the marginal ice zone north of Svalbard, as well as ocean/glacier interactions off the coast of Greenland. Central

Gelatinous zooplankton from the Fram Strait region, Arctic Ocean (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/AWI) Gelatinous zooplankton, comprising cnidarians, ctenophores and tunicates, [...] newcomers” and community changes in rapidly changing regions such as Fram Strait, the gateway to the Arctic, and the Atlantic-influenced Kongsfjorden (Svalbard). Eventually, these data on abundances, [...] diversity, distribution patterns and abundances. During the FramJelly project, a collaboration between AWI and GEOMAR, on PS126 (schematic below), we compared the outcome of jellyfish diversity

concentrations during POLARSTERN cruise PS121 from North Sea to Fram in August to September 2019. PANGAEA , doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.941011 Bracher, Astrid; Dinter, Tilman (2022): Mean

to Underwater Soundscapes. The portal will give access to HAFOS, FRAM and PALAOA recordings by audio and synchronized spectral visualizations at staggered temporal resolution to enjoy underwater (night

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