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

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

2017. Figure 1: Mooring sites maintained during 2008-2009. The four major Arctic gateways (Davis, Fram, Bering Straits and BSO) are highlighted by orange circles. Each box shows length of observations [...] Tromsø, Norway and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway for the Barents Sea [...] von Appen; Dr. B. Rabe; Prof. Dr. T. Kanzow; Dr. M. Karcher AWI and Arctic boundary PIs in Davis , Fram, Bering Straits and Barents Sea opening (BSO)

05 05 05 LOGISTICS 05 06 Secondary users: 06 Southern Ocean 06 Southern Ocean 06 B. FIEDLER 06 06 FRAM2025 06 06 06 06 06 06 07 GPF 23-2_015 07 Weddel-Sea 07 Weddel-Sea 07 07 07 07 Chief Scientist: 07 [...] 09 09 09 WASCAL-III 09 09 Areas: 09 09 YES 09 09 09 09 10 GPF 24-1_029 10 10 10 Floating-Uni 10 10 Fram Strait 10 Project: 10 10 10 10 10 Heli Service 11 11 11 11 11 11 E Greenl. shelf 11 CONTRASTS 11 11 [...] Weddel-Sea 23 23 23 SHIPYARD 23 23 23 23 23 Areas: 23 23 23 24 24 24 Heli Service 24 24 24 24 24 24 Fram Strait 24 24 Chief Scientist: 24 Chief Scientist: 25 25 25 NO 25 25 25 25 25 25 Greenlandshelf 25

important to monitor how long it takes before Pacific Water again exits Fram Strait and to compare the Pacific Water outflow through Fram Strait and the Canadian Archipelago. [...] distinguish between water of Pacific and Atlantic origin in the Arctic. Nutrient data from 1984 to 1997 in Fram Strait showed that a surface layer of about 50 m of pure Pacific Water is present above the slope

and an updated Arctic Ocean climatology. This work was funded by the FRAM project: www.awi.de/en/expedition/observatories/ocean-fram.html Publication : Behrendt, A., Sumata, H., Rabe, B., and Schauer, U

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

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

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

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