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

Arenas Chief Scientist: M. Schröder Cruise track (planned) Programme (planned) PS93.1 | ARK-XXIX/2.1 | Fram Strait/Greenland Sea Start: 2015-06-29, Longyearbyen End: 2015-07-17, Tromsö Chief Scientist: R. Stein

methods successfully reproduce the degree and spatial distribution of the average ice coverage in the Fram Strait and Nordic Seas ( Müller et al., 2011 ; Spielhagen et al., 2015). At the AWI (partly in cooperation

Trieste, Italy Prof. Dr. Brendan Reilly , Lamont, Palisades, New York, USA IODP project webpage: Eastern Fram Strait Paleo-Archive (FRAME), Expedition 403

outbreaks over Fram Strait. One of our goals is to compare in situ measurements with satellite measurements and we could manage this week one flight following exactly the track of CloudSat over Fram Strait. This

whales and seals and their underwater acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic…

collect on our regular ship-based 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

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over Svalbard during a flight of the Polar 5 aircraft on its way towards the measurement region over Fram Strait during ACLOUD. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar 6 after touch-down in Longyearbyen, Svalbard

Hasemann, C., Vedenin, A., Bergmann, M., Taylor, J. , Krauß, F. (2018): Bioturbation rates in the deep Fram Strait: Results from long-term in situ experiments at the arctic LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN. Journal