Leading researcher of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Glukhovets successfully completed training under the program for the development of the management personnel reserve of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. The ceremonial completion of the program took place at the Senezh Management Workshop on June 4, 2025.

 

Scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS and other leading Russian scientific institutions have developed proposals for organizing comprehensive monitoring of the ecosystems of the Black Sea coast after the oil spill resulting from the tanker accident in December 2024.

 

Scientists from the Laboratory of Bio-Hydrochemistry of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with employees of the Astrakhan State Nature Reserve, have completed an expedition to the Volga River Delta and the Northern Caspian Sea, conducted to study the impact of a decrease in the Volga River runoff and a drop in the Caspian Sea level on the state of the local ecosystem.

During a complex expedition of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Caspian Branch of the IO RAS and the Astrakhan State Nature Reserve to the Northern Caspian, scientists were able to confirm the existence of a new island 30 km southwest of Maly Zhemchuzhny Island.

The first meeting of the Interdepartmental Expert Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Marine Research Fleet and Marine Expeditions, chaired by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Gennady Krasnikov, was held at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

On the eve of Victory Day, the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences held the "Immortal Regiment" campaign for the first time. The institute's employees took an active part in the event, bringing portraits of their relatives and friends who participated in the Great Patriotic War.

 

Congratulations to: Viktor Zhurbas, Konstantin Lebedev, and Natalia Kuzmina, whose paper "Is There an Equatorial Water Mass in the Atlantic Ocean?" was recognized as the most viewed article among papers published in the Wiley journal Geophysical Research Letters between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, within 12 months of publication.

An interesting article on marine technology by a young team of authors from the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences was published in the prestigious and iconic journal Oceanography of the Oceanographic Society of the United States (official magazine of The Oceanography Society).

 

Scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have completed processing the results of an expedition to the Black Sea, the purpose of which was to study the consequences of the largest environmental disaster in the Black Sea in recent decades, associated with the accident of the Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 tankers in December 2024.

 

As part of the academic exchange between Russia and China, four scientists from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences presented reports on the results and prospects of research of the mesophotic zone of the ocean.