lead to study areas northwest of Bear Island, south of Spitsbergen and in the central and eastern Fram Strait.

week was characterized by intense station work both in the West Spitsbergen Current and in central Fram Strait.

oceanographic, biological and biogeochemical workload planned along the zonal transect through central Fram Strait along 78°50’N. Subsequently we added to the mooring array deployed along the Greenwich Meridian

4 September 2016
Today we have completed our research programme at the Knipovich Ridge south of Fram Strait. We are now on the transit toward Tromsø, where we will arrive in the morning of 6 September

FT-PVR-D2.4 PVR Date: 15 September 2016 summer measurements in the Fram Strait Variability of chlorophyll a distribution in the Fram Strait, Greenland Sea and Central Arctic Oce. Polar Research, 34, 23349 [...] ria and other phytopicoplankton has been reported also in the Atlantic Arctic (ARCT) region (e.g. Fram Strait and the Greenland Sea, D́ıez et al. (2012)), where also the best performance of cya-SynSenPFT

October 2016
During the sixth week of expedition PS101 we are making our way home through the ice. A FRAM “superbuoy” station needs to be rescued before we leave the ice.

went with RV Polarstern, PS93.2 und PS99.2, to the long-term observatory of Alfred-Wegener-Institute 'FRAM'.

the context of the large-scale multi-disciplinary project “Frontiers of Arctic Monitoring” Project (FRAM), we illustrate how the proposed O2A framework will assist scientists in developing enhanced data [...] being tested in the context of the large-scale multi-disciplinary “Frontiers of Arctic Moni- toring” (FRAM) project funded by the Helmholtz Alliance for the time frame 2015-2019 [7]. In this project, data [...] described above. So all scientific devices and respective sensors are being optimally described by FRAM engineers and data scientists using the sensor description solutions mentioned in section III. This

through ice 34 FRAM Pollution Observatory – Where is all the plastic? 35 FRAM at a glance 36 - 37 Imprint 38 - 39 4 5 societal questions. These three points represent the core of the FRAM mission. Since [...] monitoring. How does the AWI data portal boost FRAM? Ana: By setting FRAM as a highly customized stand- alone collection, we hope to facilitate the discovery of FRAM-related sensors, expeditions/dives, data [...] future development of the Fram Strait region. (3) complements the global observational system by providing additional information of the Arctic. FRAM Data Integration The FRAM modelling system. Left: Surface

aircraft crews. Tue, 20 June Weather conditions were favourable for a boundary layer flight over the Fram Strait under north-westerly wind conditions. It was interesting to observe that the boundary layer [...] boundary layer in a region of roughly 120 km times 30 km over a still sea ice covered part of the Fram Strait. The flight was very successful, the data look promising. Wed, 21 June A visit on RV Polarstern [...] very lucky in this regard. We suppose that one reason for the large sea ice cover in the Northern Fram Strait during the entire campaign was the prevailing northerly winds. Collocation with Polarstern