a wide range of molecular tools. One of our main study sites is the LTER observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait. The main tasks of the ABYSS are: to identify the most common bacterial taxa in deep-sea surface

Lohmann, M. Dima, and M. Prange, 2016: Linkages between atmospheric blocking, sea ice export through Fram Strait and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation , Scientific Reports, 6, doi: 10.1038/srep32881

floes bit by bit since Tuesday night. After successfully finishing our work in the eastern part of the Fram Strait, we sailed towards the ice edge. This marginal ice zone, the transition from pack ice to open

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

in the morning hours. These have been eventful weeks; our work has taken us north along the eastern Fram Strait, back repeatedly to selected ice floes in the marginal ice zone. We have made a detour to the

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

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

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