• MOSAiC expedition reaches the North Pole

      in the past, was densely covered with ice, including multiyear ice. The journey from the northern Fram Strait to the Pole only took six days to complete. To mark this momentous event, countless members

    • The seafloor of Fram Strait is a sink for microplastic from the Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean

      Marine Pollution
      Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found microplastic throughout the water column [...] explanation for this high level of pollution. According to their findings, the two main ocean currents in Fram Strait transport the microscopically small plastic particles into the region between Greenland and

    • Working in Hausgarten

      Helmholtz Infrastructure Initiative FRAM ( Fr ontiers in A rctic Marine M onitoring). The long-term observatory Hausgarten is a network of twenty stations in the Fram Strait, whose coordinates are re-visited

    • Anniversary in the far north

      Research (AWI) laid the “foundation stone” for a unique long-term observatory in the partly ice-covered Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, which they call their HAUSGARTEN. The deep-sea observatory

    • Polarstern departs for the Arctic

      studies at a major long-term monitoring station in the Arctic: the AWI’s Hausgarten observatory in the Fram Strait, where experts from various disciplines are investigating all aspects of the ecosystem, from

    • Chemistry on Board

      deployed. We also took many water and sediment samples and videos which are part of the work of the FRAM infrastructure. This has kept many of us busy, but also happy with the success. We will tell you more

    • Long-term investigations & catching micro plastics

      - Wochenbericht Nr. 3 | 7. - 13. August 2017
      We finished our scientific program in the western Fram-Strait at the East-Greenland slope and went back to our main research area of the long-term observatory

    • Homebound through the ice.

      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.

    • The expedition comes to an end

      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

    • Back at the Greenland Ice Shelf

      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