Fedorov Konstantin Nikolaevich (1927-1988)

Fedorov Konstantin Nikolaevich
(1927, Leningrad - 1988, Moscow)

Oceanologist, DSc (Physical and Mathematical Sciences) (1973), Professor (1982), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1987),
from 1974 to 1988 - Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Ocean Physics (originally - the Laboratory of Mesoscale Ocean Physics),
from 1979 to 1988 - Head of the Department of Experimental and Space Oceanology, in 1988 - at the same time Deputy Director of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of  the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Science.

An outstanding Soviet oceanographer, whose contribution to physical oceanology has significantly expanded the understanding of mixing processes in the ocean. Having participated for almost three decades in the work of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, he was one of the key figures in international ocean science and has greatly contributed to the implementation of scientific contacts between East and West.

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He graduated from the Leningrad Arctic School (1947) with a diploma of a meteorological technician and the Admiral S.O. Makarov Higher Arctic Naval School (1952) as an engineer-oceanologist.

In 1953 he entered the graduate school of the Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (IO AS) and in 1955 under the leadership of the outstanding oceanologist V.B. Shtokman defended his Ph.D. thesis, which was awarded the prize of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. After defending his thesis, he took part in the Institute's marine expeditions.

A cycle of very important and in many ways fundamental works by K.N. Fedorov is associated with the study of the structure and variability of the near-surface layer of the ocean, which quickly responds to short-term and local effects of the atmosphere and solar energy, the lower limit of which is in most cases associated with the position of the diurnal thermocline. To study a thin boundary (thermal and salt) layer at the ocean-atmosphere interface, which is difficult to study under natural conditions, Konstantin Nikolaevich launched a laboratory experiment (1976). Subsequently, a group of experimenters created by him (A.G. Zatsepin, A.G. Kostyanoy, S.N.Dikarev, and others) set up a number of interesting laboratory experiments on modeling convection, intrusion processes in the ocean, instability of baroclinic vortices, dynamics of vortex dipoles, and intrathermoclinic eddies and other phenomena characteristic of the ocean.

K.N. Fedorov was one of the first oceanographers to use satellite data to gain new knowledge about the ocean. For 10 years, he and the staff of the Department of Experimental and Space Oceanology, created by him (1979), based on satellite information, obtained important scientific results on the dynamics of frontal zones and the identification of nonstationary ordered structures of various nature. He (co-authored with A.I. Ginzburg) discovered a previously unknown and widespread in the ocean form of unsteady vortex motions in the ocean - mushroom currents, or vortex dipoles (1983), identified unsteady jets and vortices characteristic of many frontal zones of coastal upwelling ( 1984). The results of studies of the variety of physical processes in the near-surface layer and the features of its dynamics based on measurements in the ocean, laboratory modeling and satellite data are presented in the latest monograph by K.N. Fedorov (co-authored with A.I. Ginzburg) "Near-surface layer of the ocean" (1988). All three monographs by K.N. Fedorov were translated into English and published abroad.

A wide range of directions that Konstantin Nikolaevich was simultaneously pursuing, his comprehensive approach to the study of the ocean (from laboratory modeling to interpretation of satellite images) and oceanological erudition allowed him to know the ocean in all the variety of processes taking place in it. Under the leadership of K.N. Fedorov, 12 Ph.D. theses were defended.


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Konstantin Nikolaevich was one of the few scientists who managed to successfully combine intensive scientific work with scientific and organizational work, including international scientific cooperation.

President (1976-1980) and Honorary President (1980-1988) of the Scientific Committee for Ocean Research (SCOR), chairman of SCOR working groups No. 36 (processes in coastal upwelling, 1973-1975) and No. 69 (small-scale turbulence and mixing in the ocean, 1980-1988). Member of the Interdepartmental Commission on International Maritime Law, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission on the Use of Natural Resources from Space (1975–1988), member of the Working Group on Remote Sensing (RGDZ) of the Intercosmos Council (1980–1988). Member of the editorial boards of the journals "Exploration of the Earth from Space" (1980-1988), Deep-Sea Research (Great Britain, 1982-1983), Limnologia o Oceanografia (Italy, 1982-1988), Atlas of the Oceans (1983-1988), section "Oceanology" Editorial Council of the publishing house "Gidrometeoizdat" (1985-1988).

He gave lecture courses to 5th year students of the Department of Oceanology of the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University on the fine thermohaline structure of ocean waters (1978-1979) and the basics of remote sensing of the ocean from space (1985-1987), advised the crews of Soviet orbital space stations on ocean exploration.

Member of 16 sea and ocean expeditions. Author of about 270 publications. He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (1969) and the Medal For Labor Valor (1982).

Expeditions. News feed

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  • Director of the Institute of Oceanology of RAS: "Academician Ioffe" released, goes home
    Director of the Institute of Oceanology of RAS: "Academician Ioffe" released, goes home The Russian research vessel Akademik Ioffe, detained in Denmark on November 1, has been released from arrest, has taken off anchor and is heading home. This news late on Tuesday evening, December 7, was confirmed by "RG" at the Institute of Oceanology of RAS with reference to its director Alexey Sokov.
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  • Cruise 59 of the RV Akademik Ioffe
    Cruise 59 of the RV Akademik Ioffe From September 12 to October 26, 2021, the next voyage of the RV Akademik Ioffe to the northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean took place. The main goal of the expedition is to obtain new data on the geomorphology of the bottom of deep-water passages and in the areas of distribution of contourite drifts, on modern hydrological conditions and features of sedimentation, as well as on the Pleistocene-Holocene sedimentation conditions in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.
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  • Aral Expedition of the IO RAS
    Aral Expedition of the IO RAS

    In the period from 10 to 18 October 2021, the 24th expedition of the IO RAS to the Aral Sea took place. Within the framework of a joint project, scientists from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS and the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Berlin), in cooperation with the Karakalpak Scientific Research Institute of Natural Sciences (Nukus), conducted comprehensive marine research in the central part of the western basin of the Great Aral seas.

     

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  • The 85th cruise of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
    The 85th cruise of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh The scientific program of the expedition "Investigation of the state of radioactive underwater potentially hazardous objects (UPHO) in the Kara Sea and their impact on regional ecology in 2021" has been successfully completed in full. The goals set for the expedition of the 85th cruise of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh to provide scientific support for the rehabilitation of the Arctic region from flooded and sunken objects with spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste (RW) in 2021 have been achieved, and the tasks have been successfully solved.
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  • 51 voyage of the RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov to the Baltic Sea have been successfully completed
    51 voyage of the RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov to the Baltic Sea have been successfully completed From June 30 to July 14, 2021, the next voyage of one of the flagships of the Russian scientific fleet - the vessel "Akademik Sergei Vavilov", carried out by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS (IO RAS). All tasks stipulated by the flight program were completed. The route of the expedition passed through the entire Baltic - from the southeastern part through the Central Baltic to the Gulf of Finland. Thanks to the permits received from the Baltic countries, studies were carried out not only in Russian waters, but also in Finnish and Swedish waters, which is extremely important for monitoring the state of the Baltic ecosystem as a whole, and not its individual basins, because nature knows no boundaries.
    Written on Friday, 06 August 2021 22:23 in News of the Institute Read more...
  • Fedor Konyukhov to conduct scientific research at the North Pole
    Fedor Konyukhov to conduct scientific research at the North Pole Fedor Konyukhov will spend two weeks alone on a drifting polar station in the Arctic Ocean. The main goal of his mission will be to study the intensity of polar ice melting and its drift routes. Konyukhov will dedicate his free time to creating a series of paintings featuring the beauty of the arctic landscapes.
    Written on Thursday, 29 April 2021 23:23 in News of the Institute Read more...
  • More than 50 young scientists and students will go on an expedition across the Kara Sea
    More than 50 young scientists and students will go on an expedition across the Kara Sea

    Young scientists and students will take part in the fourth season of the floating university IO RAS, which will be held in the Arctic from August 6 to September 5, 2021.

    Written on Thursday, 22 July 2021 17:23 in News of the Institute Read more...
  • 83rd voyage of the RV "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh"
    83rd voyage of the RV "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh"

    On June 19, 2021, the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh embarked on the 83rd voyage to carry out the next stage of research under the program “Ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic Seas - 2021”. The head of the expedition is Academician Mikhail Vladimirovich Flint. The organizer of the expedition is the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS. There are 75 scientists on board the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh.

     

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  • Institute of Oceanology and Fedor Konyukhov announced the beginning of scientific cooperation
    Institute of Oceanology and Fedor Konyukhov announced the beginning of scientific cooperation One of the first projects implemented within the framework of the created cooperation will be the environmental monitoring of the World Ocean, during which Fedor Konyukhov's NOVA solar-powered catamaran  will be equipped with a unique microplastic collection system developed by scientists of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS.
    Written on Wednesday, 01 April 2020 18:45 in News of the Institute Read more...
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