he competition “Russian Open Cup for Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles (ROV)” and the Round Table “Experience and Prospects for the Use of Marine Robotic Systems (MRTC)” were held in Astrakhan from March 21 to 27. 15 teams from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Severodvinsk, Volgograd and Astrakhan took to the start.

In February-March 2024, employees of the North-Western Branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS conducted expeditionary studies of the geochemical characteristics of the snow cover in the western sector of the Russian Arctic: on the territory of the Kola Peninsula, the White Sea-Kuloi Plateau, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, on the coast of the Dvina, Onega, Mezen Bay of the White Sea.

As part of the “Marine Robotics” seminar, held under the auspices of the St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University (MINOTS), the United Shipbuilding Corporation and the Academician Krylov Scientific and Technical Organization, Soviet and Russian scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, chief researcher, professor of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the RAS, Anatoly Sagalevich presented a report “Research of the ocean using manned submersibles.”

An expedition of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS lasting almost 3 months took place on the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh and ended in the port of Kaliningrad on February 25, 2024. Scientists have made hydrological measurements for the first time in the Vidal Abyssal Channel northwest of the Vema Fracture Zone. This channel records the flow of Antarctic bottom water, which then fills the entire North American Basin and the deep-sea basin of Puerto Rico, where the greatest depth of the Atlantic is located. Previously, no hydrological measurements were carried out in this channel.

Mikhail Popov

Engineer

Laboratory of Paleoceanology
Marine Geology

Petr Perfilov

Laboratory assistant

Laboratory of Paleoceanology
Marine Geology

Dmitrii Borisov

PhD (Geological and Mineralogical Sciences)
Leading Researcher

Laboratory of Paleoceanology
Marine Geology

 

Sergey Malkov

Head of the Center for Applied Hydrophysical Research
PhD (Technical Sciences)

Center for Applied Hydrophysical Research
St. Petersburg Branch of the IO RAS

Konstantin Filin

Head of the Laboratory

Laboratory complex
St. Petersburg Branch of the IO RAS

Anton Dvornikov

Head of Laboratory
Leading Researcher,
PhD (Physical and Mathematical Sciences)

Laboratory for modeling ocean biogeochemical cycles
St. Petersburg Branch of the IO RAS