• Dr. Wilken-Jon von Appen

    wilken-jon.von.appen@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-2903
    Klußmannstraße 3d, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Dr. Rebecca McPherson

    rebecca.mcpherson@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-2161
    Klußmannstraße 3d, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Sofia Kuzmina

    sofia.kuzmina@awi.de
    , Bremerhaven

  • M.Sc. Daniel Scholz

    daniel.scholz@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-2366
    Klußmannstraße 1, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Polarstern longterm cruise planning

    Logistics International/national collaboration: Expeditions 2024 to the Arctic PS143/1 & PS143/2; Project: FRAM HAUSGARTEN Frank Wenzhöfer & Katja Metfies (GPF23-1_013) Goals: • Long-term ecological research in [...] E-Mail Participants: 2 x 50 Free berths: - Period: June - August 2024 Days at sea : 61 Working Area: Fram Strait Disciplines: Marine Technology, Physical Oceanography, Long-Term Observations (LTO), Long-Term [...] forms part of a framework of international consortia (GEOTRACES, ArcWatch-LTO). It is supported by FRAM observatory technology, and contributes to a time series of four expeditions to the CAO in the POF4

  • non-peer reviewed articles

    (2018) Retrieval of phytoplankton pigments and functional types from underway spectrophotometry in the Fram Strait. Extended abstract to Ocean Optics XXIV conference, Dubrovnik, 7 October 2018 - 12 October

  • peer-review

    changing Arctic Ocean – Overview of long-term summer measurements in the Fram Strait Variability of chlorophyll a distribution in the Fram Strait, Greenland Sea and Central Arctic Ocean. Polar Research34: 23349 [...] Nöthig E.-M. (2026) Resolving the interannual variability of phytoplankton community composition in Fram Strait using ship-based high-frequency spectrophotometric measurements from 2015 to 2024. Deep-Sea [...] Summertime in situ chlorophyll a and particulate organic carbon standing stocks in surface waters of the Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean (1991 – 2015). Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 350. doi: 10.3389/fmars

  • Invited Talks

    (2026): Linkages of phytoplankton community composition to temperature and sea ice properties in Fram Strait. GEOMAR Biogeochemistry Seminar, Kiel, Germany, 13 January 2026. 2025 Bracher A . (2025) Possible

  • LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

    Wegener Institute established the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) observatory HAUSGARTEN in the Fram Strait. HAUSGARTEN observatory displays 21 permanent stations covering a water depth range of 250 [...] HAUSGARTEN observatory is successively extended within the frame of the HGF infrastructure project FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring). Contact: T. Soltwedel, M. Bergmann, C. Hasemann , E.-M. Nöthig

  • What calling and singing reveal about bowhead whales

    reproduce beneath the sea ice 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