Maria Vasileva

Engineer

Laboratory of Paleoceanology
Marine Geology

Ekaterina Ovsepyan

PhD (Geological and Mineralogical Sciences)
Senior Researcher

Laboratory of Paleoceanology
Marine Geology

Dear colleagues! We regret to inform you that on February 26, 2022, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Board of the Russian Acoustic Society, President of the Russian Acoustic Society from 2008 to 2019, Viktor Anatolyevich Akulichev, passed away.

The 2nd stage of the 60th voyage of the R/V Akademik Ioffe to the tropical Atlantic (December 22, 2021 – February 7, 2022) has been completed. The expedition was organized by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS with the participation of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University and the FRC Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas RAS. Head of the expedition Chief Researcher of the IO RAS DSc (Geological and Mineralogical Sciences) E.V. Ivanova.

The Nauchny Mir publishing house, with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 21-15-00031), published the monograph "Geosystem of the Anapa bay-bar". The authors are employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Southern Branch): R.D. Kosyan, V.V. Krylenko, M.V. Krylenko.

The Springer publishing house published the monograph "The Ioffe Drift". The authors are employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences: I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, D.G. Borisov, N.A. Shulga, O.V. Levchenko, D.I. Frey, O.B. Dmitrenko, E.V. Dorohova, O.M. Dara, N.V. Libina.

The North-Western Branch of the IO RAS received a grant from the Project Office for the Development of the Arctic "PORA" for the project "Peculiarities of the mesotidal mouths of the Russian Arctic rivers in the conditions of summer low water (on the example of the Indiga River in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug)".

The purpose of the project is to identify the features of hydrological, hydrochemical and hydrobiological characteristics in the mesotidal estuary during the summer low water period (during the period of the greatest vulnerability of water and biological resources to anthropogenic impact).

Polar Explorer's Day is a professional holiday established by decree of the President of the Russian Federation in 2013 in recognition of the merits of polar explorers. It is celebrated on May 21st. The date for this professional holiday was not chosen by chance - on May 21, 1937, the first scientific research expedition of the polar drifting station "North Pole-1" ("SP-1") began its work.

Every year on February 19, the world celebrates International Marine Mammal Protection Day, or World Whale Day, reminding us that even the largest and smartest animals on the planet need protection.

The holiday has been celebrated since 1986, when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned whale fishing.

February 22, 2022 - April 17, 2022. State Darwin Museum. The exposition includes about 40 photographs of famous polar travelers, members of the Russian Geographical Society. The authors - oceanologist Mikhail Flint, director Leonid Kruglov, photographer Sergey Gorshkov - brought these shots from their numerous Arctic expeditions.