first drift expedition of its kind on his sailing ship Fram. Nansen’s goal was to take his ship beyond the Siberian islands. Once there, the Fram would – accord- ing to his projections – be carried across [...] ships a proper send-off, complete with speeches, music and a ceremo- ny, just as was done for Nansen’s Fram expedition 126 years ago. Let’s all get our handkerchiefs ready, because giv- en all the emotions [...] expedition was planned to include twelve men and take five years to complete. On 25 June 1893 the Fram left the port of Oslo, departing for its unprecedented polar expedition. Nansen had his (wooden) research

Marine Pollution
Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found microplastic throughout the water column [...] explanation for this high level of pollution. According to their findings, the two main ocean currents in Fram Strait transport the microscopically small plastic particles into the region between Greenland and

export freshwater. Major pathways of the export are the East Greenland Current and sea ice flux through Fram Strait. Inflow of saline water from the South is equivalent to a fresh water export. Fresh water from [...] satellite remote sensing and regional airborne sea ice thickness measurements. Oceanographic moorings in Fram Strait provide estimates of liquid fresh water transport. Once validated, the models can be used for [...] by the Transpolar Drift, which carries water and sea ice from the Siberian Shelves to exit at the Fram Strait, and the Beaufort Gyre, a large clockwise rotating gyre in the Canadian Basin (Fig 1). This

Investment, planned for submission ATWAICE ATlantic WAter pathways to the ICE in the Nansen Basin and Fram Strait AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle AVT RWTH Aachen Process Engineering Proposal of the PoF IV [...] Vegetation Model for Forests FP7 7th EU Framework Program for Research and Technological Development FRAM Frontiers in Arctic Marine Monitoring, Arctic long-term observatory FRET Förster Resonance Energy

Helmholtz Infrastructure Initiative FRAM ( Fr ontiers in A rctic Marine M onitoring). The long-term observatory Hausgarten is a network of twenty stations in the Fram Strait, whose coordinates are re-visited

Research (AWI) laid the “foundation stone” for a unique long-term observatory in the partly ice-covered Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, which they call their HAUSGARTEN. The deep-sea observatory

Arctic, which will grow thicker as the winter progresses. One year later, we should have reached the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. In the course of that year, a total of 600 people will take

studies at a major long-term monitoring station in the Arctic: the AWI’s Hausgarten observatory in the Fram Strait, where experts from various disciplines are investigating all aspects of the ecosystem, from

atmospheres FESOM 1.4 and FESOM 2.0 Mesh refinement in FESOM2 Wekerle et al., 2017 Eddy resolving in the Fram Strait Wekerle et al., 2017 Wekerle et al., 2017 Global FESOM2 setup with 4.5 km Arctic Ocean Sea

data P*(x) k2(x) kT(x) P*(x) k2(x) Presentation Title | 22U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Future plans Fram 1893-1996 www.mosaic-expedition.org Beaufort Sea Moorings (USA), ~10 years www.whoi