column biogeochemistry. Daniel Scholz (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daniel Scholz - Within the FRAM project (Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring), my responsibilities are the development, deployment, calibration [...] in-situ sensor platforms that are used to monitor nutrients and carbonate chemistry parameters in the Fram Strait and the Central Arctic Ocean. To monitor such parameters in the ocean, it is common practice

comprises and continues all airborne ice thickness measurements obtained since 2002 in the central Arctic, Fram Strait and the last ice area with the objective to ensure the long-term availability of a unique data [...] balance buoy (SIMB3_2024J www.cryosphereinnovation.com/deployment/301434060407490 ) entering Fram Strait, but we could not get to it owing to fog. The flight on July 27th bisected the loops flown

keeping our fingers crossed until the last minute that we will still be able to sample the ice in the Fram Strait again this year. © Sebastian H. Schroeder Lander Findings – Feasting in the Deep Sea 31. July

scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic long-term observatory FRAM (Frontiers [...] and temporal resolution in the future. The foundation of the FRAM observatory is the preexisting long-term observatory 'Hausgarten' in the Fram Strait, which connects the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean. Different

over the course of a year. As part of a long-term data series, sediment traps are deployed in the Fram Strait every year to study the effects of climate change in the Arctic Ocean. © Sebastian H. Schröder

in ice, water column and sediment-surface samples, and in marine and lake sediment cores from the Fram Strait, Northwest Pacific, and Siberia (Samoylov, Central Yakutia). Research focus: High-latitude

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

ecological role of marine mammals in the Arctic Ocean. Data stem from the interdisciplinary Arctic FRAM ocean observatory, which provides a unique opportunity to gain insight into these interrelationships [...] environmental alterations triggered by climate change, such as sea-ice decline. Using data collected in Fram Strait, I am investigating potential impacts of climate change on the acoustic presence of endemic [...] Patterns in the Acoustic Presence and Vocal Behaviour of Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus) in Eastern Fram Strait Diandra Duengen (2019), Master Uni Oldenburg Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) distribution

for cold-air outbreaks in the Arctic are the Fram Strait and Barents Sea. The Figure shows an example of a cold-air outbreak with convection rolls over Fram Strait caused by a low pressure system over Svalbard [...] investigated. Impact of sea ice morphology on energy and momentum transport Marginal sea ice zone (Fram Strait, near Svalbard) with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Weg [...] Lüpkes, J. Hartmann, and M. Raschendorfer (2005), A case study on a polar cold air outbreak over Fram Strait using a mesoscale weather prediction model , Boundary Layer Meteorol. , 117 , 301–336, doi:

alkenones, etc.) to reconstruct surface-water characteristics in the (sub-) polar North Atlantic (Fram Strait, Greenland Sea, Baffin Bay) and their changes through late Quaternary times. Of special interest