• 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

  • QUARCCS

    Structure (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Workpackages WP1 Variability of sea-ice thickness in the Fram Strait and ice formation processes in the source regions Compilation of sea-ice thickness information [...] sea ice on biodiversity and productivity Abundance and composition of zooplankton communities in the Fram Strait and Arctic Ocean Correlation of zooplankton population with sea-ice conditions (source, age [...] Dinter, W. von Appen, I. Morten, I. Salter, (2018), Properties of sediment trap catchment areas in Fram Strait: Results from Langrangian modeling and remote sensing, Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, doi:10

  • Arctic Species in Climate Change

    average, though 5,669 metres at its deepest point. Its only deep-sea connection to other oceans lies in Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. The Arctic Ocean is also characterised by record low temperatures: [...] element Apart from fish, have other newcomers from the south found their way to the Arctic? In fact, Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard has become a preferred travel route for new residents of the

  • results-S5POC

    L. , Bretagnon M., Bracher A. , 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

  • Projects

    in ice, water column and sediment-surface samples, and in marine and lake sediment cores from the Fram Strait, Northwest Pacific, and Siberia (Samoylov, Central Yakutia). Research focus: High-latitude

  • Aerosols & Clouds

    10.1525/elementa.2023.00016 Dahlke, S. , Solbès, A. and Maturilli, M. (2022) Cold Air Outbreaks in Fram Strait: Climatology, Trends, and Observations During an Extreme Season in 2020 , Journal of Geophysical