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    • Human imprints and final considerations

      here on board assessing anthropogenic impacts on the marine ecosystem on our way from Bremerhaven to Fram Strait (and back) and at HAUSGARTEN observatory.

    • Hausgarten Expedition ends

      the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from its roughly one month-long Arctic expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten of the Alfred Wegener Institute

    • Research icebreaker Polarstern departs for the Fram Strait

      oceanographic measurements and biological research in the water column and on the seafloor of the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard.

    • Meltwater influences ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean

      Arctic Ocean
      In the summer months, sea ice from the Arctic drifts through Fram Strait into the Atlantic. Thanks to meltwater, a stable layer forms around the drifting ice atop the more salty seawater [...] as a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now determined with the aid of the FRAM ocean observation system. Their findings have just been published in the journal Nature Communications

    • Polarstern Returns to Bremerhaven

      such changes, the research teams on board the Polarstern investigated Atlantic Water Recirculation in Fram Strait and in the marginal ice zone north of Svalbard, as well as ocean/glacier interactions off the

    • Polarstern Departs on Arctic Expedition

      will focus on extended ecological fieldwork at the AWI’s deep-sea observatory Hausgarten and at the FRAM Ocean Observing System between Greenland and Svalbard. 50 researchers and a ship’s crew of 24 will

    • Occurrence of blue and fin whales in the Arctic

      The long-term analysis of blue whale and fin whale vocalisations in the eastern Fram Strait offers valuable insights into seasonal and annual patterns regarding these species’ occurrence in the region

    • Unique communities directly under the Arctic ice

      investigated what these organisms are and how they are affected by the melting ice in the northern Fram Strait. They present their findings in the journal Science of The Total Environment .

    • Pioneering research reveals Arctic matter pathways poised for major shifts amidst climate change

      fresh water, and suspended matter from the Siberian shelves across the central Arctic towards the Fram Strait channel, which connects to the Nordic Seas. This cross-Arctic flow influences the delivery

    • Little researched current impacting on winter sea ice in the Arctic

      that flows from Europe’s Norwegian Sea into the Arctic Ocean, passing through the Barents Sea and the Fram Strait in the process. However, not all the Atlantic water flowing into the Barents Sea reaches the