ice conditions in the main export pathway of Arctic sea ice, the Fram Strait, and in the Lincoln Sea delivering the thickest ice to Fram Strait. Based on measurement data we will determine sea ice

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 of the expedition team gathered

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 details on this next week. But

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 in the second week of the

Distinct Water Masses and Summertime Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics (Fram Strait, 79°N). Frontiers in Microbiology, 12 (658803). Fadeev, E., Salter, I., Schourup-Kristensen, V., Metfies, K., Nöthig, E.-M. [...] Bienhold, C. (2018): Microbial Communities in the East and West Fram Strait During Sea Ice Melting Season. Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00429 Rapp, J.Z., Fernández Méndez, M., [...] : Biogeography of benthic bacteria at regional scale in the deep Fram Strait (LTER HAUSGARTEN, Arctic), PLOS One 8:9, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072779 Further Links: ERC-Project ABYSS

volume export rates through major gates of the Arctic, such as Fram Strait. The Sea Ice Physics group investigates to what extent ice volume loss through major export gates is changing. By combining [...] the Sea Ice Physics Section determines the sea ice volume flux in Fram Strait region and other key areas. Results are used to quantify whether coupled sea ice ocean models are capable of reproducing Fram

(2014) the focus was set to northern part of Greenland Sea only (Fram Strait). The western, sea ice-dominated, part of Fram Strait proved to have short, late (middle May) and time varying phytoplankton blooms. At the marginal sea ice zone of the western Fram Strait a stratification induced by sea-ice melt was shown to have promoted phytoplankton growth, which resulted in the enhanced [...] physical environment on phytoplankton blooms: a case study in the Fram Strait , Journal of Marine Systems, 132 , pp. 196-207. doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.11.008 , hdl:10013/epic.42744 Cherkasheva, A. ,

we monitor the Atlantic Water in the West Spitsbergen Current in Fram Strait by use of an oceanographic mooring array since 1997. Surface waters are densified through cooling and brine release during [...] that transfer the warm Atlantic water from the return flow in Fram Strait towards the 79°N glacier which is the main outlet glacier onto the shelf east of Greenland. The Shelf Seas The Shelf Seas [...] -1813 claudia.wekerle @ awi.de Associated projects MIDO project FRAM infrastructure Arctic LTOs

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. For example,

. This is indicated by data from long-term observations in the Fram Strait, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have now analysed. Their most important finding: even a short-term