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

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 .

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

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

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

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LOGISTICS 05 Heli Service 06 Secondary users: 06 Southern Ocean 06 Southern Ocean 06 B. FIEDLER 06 06 FRAM2025 06 Chief Scientist: 06 06 GPF 24-1/009 06 06 06 NO 07 GPF 23-2_015 07 Weddel-Sea 07 Weddel-Sea [...] CONTRASTS 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 Areas: 11 (ArcWatch 3) 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 Area: 12 12 Fram Strait 12 12 12 Project: 12 12 Bremerhaven 12 13 13 13 13 Atlantic Transit 13 SHIPYARD 13 E Greenl [...] Atlantic Transit 25 25 25 25 25 25 Areas: 25 25 OceanCapX 25 GPF 2024/029 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 Fram Strait 26 26 (ex. POGO) 26 GPF 2024/031 27 Helicopter 27 27 Heli Service 27 27 27 27 27 27 Greenlandshelf

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Warm water is mixing up life in the Arctic

the marine habitats of the High North. 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

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

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Research Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 17 November 2014 - 21 November 2014 . 8. Schewe, I. , FRAM-Konsortium (2014): FRAM: A multidisciplinary observatory in the North Atlantic - Arctic Ocean transition zone [...] HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait) , Deep Sea Research I, 58 (11), pp. 1069-1083 . doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2011.08.002 94. Kraft, A. (2010): Amphipods observed in sediment trap samples in the eastern Fram Strait (Arctic [...] Somavilla, R. , Bauerfeind, E. and Beszczynska-Möller, A. (2015): Exchange of warming deep waters across Fram Strait , Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 103 , pp. 86-100 . 2. Soltwedel,

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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