The 48th scientific cruise of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov was carried out from October 29 to November 12, 2021 (15 days) in the territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation in the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea.

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.

On December 7, 2021, the 87th voyage began on the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, lasting 120 days with the departure and completion of the expedition in the port of Kaliningrad. The head of the expedition, DSc, Evgeny Morozov. The ship is sailing into the Weddell Sea to carry out research under the Antarctic program. There are 53 scientific personnel (from 10 organizations) and 39 crew members onboard .

For high professionalism, results of scientific and technical activities, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the honorary title "Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation" was awarded to Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the
Laboratory for Environmental Geology of the Atlantic Branch of the IO RAS, Vadim Timofeevich Paka.

On October 18-21, 2021, Sochi hosted the XVIII Annual Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. On October 20, Sergey Gulev, Corresponding Member of RAS, Head of the Sea-Air Interaction and Climate Laboratory at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS, took part in the fourth session on the topic "Environment: Russian Response to the Common Challenge".

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.

Moscow City Architecture Committee has approved the project of the Center for Biogeochemical and Information Technologies at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS, said the chief architect of the capital Sergey Kuznetsov. The total area of the complex will be 12 thousand square meters. The construction site is located at 36 Nakhimovsky Prospect, next to the main building of the Institute, erected in 1977 in the spirit of Soviet modernism.

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.

 

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.

September 13, 2021 20 years since the signing of the Order on the establishment of the North-West Branch of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS. The department was created on the basis of the Arkhangelsk Scientific Expeditionary Station.