Irina Chubarenko, Head of the Laboratory of Marine Physics of the Atlantic Branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Elena Yesyukova, Senior Researcher at the same laboratory, were among the top ten researchers with the greatest contribution to the study of microplastic pollution of sea beaches.

 

The goal of the first expedition of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences this year was to study the consequences of the fuel oil spill resulting from the sinking of two Volgoneft-class tankers on December 15, 2024.

The Open Russian Cup in Marine Robotics will be held in Astrakhan from March 24 to 30 at the corporate training center of LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft LLC.

 

The research of P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences is devoted to the impact of glacier melting on Arctic ecosystems. The material is dedicated to World Glacier Day, celebrated for the first time this year on March 21. The year 2025 has been declared by the UN General Assembly as the International Year of Glacier Conservation due to their intensive melting as a result of climate change.

An expedition organized at the end of February by the Atlantic Branch of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences made it possible to obtain new data on the development of plankton communities in the Baltic Sea during the winter period.

March 24-25, 2025, Moscow, IO RAS

March 21, 2025 marks the 80th birthday of Gregory Mikhailovich Reznik

The Russian Academy of Sciences, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS carry out a XXVI International Scientific conference (School) on marine geology from 17 to 21 of November 2025.

Daniil Mironov

Engineer

Laboratory of Paleoceanology
Marine Geology

New data on the state of the marine environment under the influence of climate change, obtained by scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University following the 56th voyage of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov, will form the basis for the development of a regional module for environmental and climate monitoring of the Baltic Sea.