• Projects

    INDIFUN-AI With the help of AI approaches the overall diversity of the entire plankton community of the Fram Strait (Arctic) is assessed. This data is then applied to forecast future scenarios of Arctic planktonic

  • Pre-Quaternary

    doi:10.1073/pnas.2301954120 Hossain, A. , Knorr, G. , Jokat, W. and Lohmann, G. (2021): Opening of the Fram Strait led to the establishment of a modern-like three-layer stratification in the Arctic Ocean during

  • 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

  • Deep Sea

    deep-sea focus has been on the Arctic. In 1999, the institute established a long-term observatory in Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. Today, the HAUSGARTEN observatory consists of 21 monitoring [...] temperatures are provoking rapid 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 [...] As such, it’s quite possible that climate change will reduce diversity in the biotic communities of Fram Strait. To FAQ element How will it affect the Arctic deep sea when the sea ice continues to melt?

  • Microplastics

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

  • Members

    column biogeochemistry. Daniel Scholz (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daniel Scholz - Within the FRAM project (Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring), my responsibilities are the development, deployment, calibration [...] in-situ sensor platforms that are used to monitor nutrients and carbonate chemistry parameters in the Fram Strait and the Central Arctic Ocean. To monitor such parameters in the ocean, it is common practice

  • Moorings

    several moorings with physical and biogeochemical sensors distributed over a certain area (e.g. in the Fram Strait or in the Weddell Sea) over a period of several years or even decades. This has been done at

  • Completed Projects

    Thomas Rackow | Tido Semmler Follow ESM on Twitter @project_esm More information about this project FRAM FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring Our ability to understand the complex interactions of biological [...] and interdisciplinary observation infrastructures. The main purpose of the open-ocean infrastructure FRAM is permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the provision of near real-time data on Earth [...] system dynamics, climate variability and ecosystem change. The Climate Dynamics section supports the FRAM infrastructure program with high-resolution ocean and sea-ice simulations. Vibe Schourup-Kristensen

  • 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

  • Projects

    alkenones, etc.) to reconstruct surface-water characteristics in the (sub-) polar North Atlantic (Fram Strait, Greenland Sea, Baffin Bay) and their changes through late Quaternary times. Of special interest