• Team

    Steinhöfel-Sasgen, Grit Postdoc Terbrüggen, Anja Engineer Torres Valdes, Sinhue Senior Scientist, "FRAM" Völker, Christoph Senior Scientist Wuttig, Kathrin Postdoc Wollenburg, Jutta Senior Scientist Ye

  • Ocean biogeochemical modelling

    Surface chloropyll a concentration in an eddy-resolving simulation (1 km horizontal resolution) in the Fram Strait ( Schourup-Kristensen et al. 2021 ) Research Media echoes Members Publications Methods Projects

  • Ocean Acoustics Group - AWI OZA

    whales and seals and their underwater acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic

  • Main Research Topics

    whales and seals and their underwater acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic…

  • Projects

    ed by the land masses of North America, Greenland and… Find out more Arctic Long-term Observatory FRAM 5,000 metres seawater plus ice separate the seafloor from boisterous life in the upper water layers

  • Projects

    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

  • Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet

    Trieste, Italy Prof. Dr. Brendan Reilly , Lamont, Palisades, New York, USA IODP project webpage: Eastern Fram Strait Paleo-Archive (FRAME), Expedition 403

  • Tara Polar Station

    starting in summer 2026. Before this, different test campaigns are planned, including a shorter drift in Fram Strait in summer 2025 and winter experiments in Svalbard. Tara Polar Station in Lorient, France, in

  • Projects

    INDIFUN-AI With the help of AI approaches the overall diversity of the entire plankton community of the Fram Strait (Arctic) is assessed. This data is then applied to forecast future scenarios of Arctic planktonic

  • Deep Sea

    deep-sea focus has been on the Arctic. In 1999, the institute established a long-term observatory in Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. Today, the HAUSGARTEN observatory consists of 21 monitoring [...] temperatures are provoking rapid responses in the deep-sea ecosystem. This can already be seen in Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland, where the composition of the phytoplankton has changed. Whereas [...] As such, it’s quite possible that climate change will reduce diversity in the biotic communities of Fram Strait. To FAQ element How will it affect the Arctic deep sea when the sea ice continues to melt?