On June 14, 2024, the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the authors of the “Voice of the North” project, Yana Shklyarskaya and Dmitry Olshansky, signed an Agreement on cooperation in the educational field.

The Cheryomushki Science City project unites scientific institutes located near Nakhimovsky Prospekt. Its main goal is to develop horizontal connections between employees of scientific institutes: within the framework of the project, scientists exchange experiences and ideas, hold events, go on excursions to neighboring institutes, and discuss the past and future of the “scientific region.”

 

On June 3-6, 2024, the international conference “Caspian Basin in Transition” was held in Baku (Azerbaijan), organized by the Franco-Azerbaijani University (UFAZ) and the International Association CASPISNET (Caspian Integrated Scientific Network).

Alexander Ivanenko

Head of Laboratory
PhD (Geological and Mineralogical Sciences)

Geophysical Fields Laboratory
Marine Geology

 

Natalya Tilinina

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

Laboratory of Marine Meteorology
Ocean Physics

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