In the period from February 14 to 16, 2022, at six sites in five cities of Russia: Moscow, Astrakhan, Vladivostok, Kaliningrad and Sevastopol, the Floating University 2022 scientific school will be held, organized with the participation of leading scientific, educational and commercial organizations associated with the study of the ocean. The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology is one of the main organizers and represents a platform for conducting full-time scientific and practical events of the scientific school in Moscow and Kaliningrad.

 

The Springer publishing house issued the book “Antarctic Peninsula Region of the Southern Ocean” Oceanography and Ecology, the editors of the book are employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny G. Morozov, Mikhail V. Flint, Vasily A. Spiridonov. The book is dedicated to the results of research in the Antarctic during the expedition onboard the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (cruise 79) in 2019-2020.

The Springer publishing house issued the monograph "Bottom Gravity Currents and Overflows in Deep Channels of the Atlantic Ocean" Observations, Analysis, and Modeling. The authors are employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny G. Morozov, Roman Yu. Tarakanov and Dmitry I. Frey.

The 2nd stage of the 60th voyage of the RV Akademik Ioffe to the tropical Atlantic continues. The scientific program of the expedition includes conducting geological, geophysical, hydrophysical and hydrochemical studies of deep and near-bottom circulation and its impact on sedimentation, as well as observations of cetaceans along the way, collection of microbiological data and meteorological information in the Central Atlantic, along the route of the vessel from the port of Kaliningrad to the Vima test site - a section through the Guiana Basin (including the uplift of Ceara) - to the port of Kaliningrad.

In the article “Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates”, published in the New Year's issue of Nature Geoscience, the authors Joshua Studholme, Alexey V. Fedorov, Sergey K. Gulev, Kerry Emanuel and Kevin Hodges analyze the dynamics of tropical cyclones over the past few million years.

An exhibition “Outpost of Russian Oceanology. To the 75th anniversary of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences" will be held in the RAS Archive at st. Novocheremushkinskaya, 34 from December 15, 2021 to January 15, 2022.

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.