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At the personal invitation of the First Deputy Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region – Chairman of the Government of the Arkhangelsk Region A.V. Alsufyev and the Lomonosov Foundation (President of the Foundation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences… 
By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Veniaminovich Kovalenko, a leading researcher at Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland," 2nd class,… 
On November 13, Acting Director of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.P. Shevchenko and Chairman of the Board of the newly established Kazakh Scientific Research Institute of the Caspian Sea in Astana S.K. Akhmetov signed… 
On October 22, 2025, a popular science lecture entitled "Water Dynamics and Stock Dynamics: What Links Tides and Pollock Populations?" was held at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 
A joint team of scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Kamchatka branch of VNIRO discovered that the influence of the tides must be taken into account to accurately predict the abundance of… 
At the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, staff members of the IO RAS, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Chief Researcher T.A. Shiganova and Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Leading Researcher A.S. Kazmin, visited the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese… 
S.K. Klimenko and A.Yu. Ivanov, employees of the Laboratory of Ocean Optics of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, analyzed the available data of Earth remote sensing (ERS) from space, which showed the fuel oil pollution… 
On August 11-12, a visiting meeting of the Council under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on issues of ensuring the development of carbon balance control technologies was held. The meeting was held in the… 
Scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences studied the Black Sea beaches for various types of pollution. In particular, oceanologies took samples of loose soil to assess the degree of pollution of the coastal strip,…
