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

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

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

in the Arctic Environmental Protection in the Polar Regions Brochures AWI image brochure Brochure FRAM FOCUS on: Climate Research Brochure Coastal Research Brochure Climate Research Brochure Polar Ecosystems

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

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

php/cleopatra-ii ) Transdrift: The transpolar system of the Arctic Ocean: ( www.transdrift.info ) Fram: Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring Members of the working group PD. Dr. Barbara Niehoff (head) Dr. Astrid

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