Leading researcher at the Laboratory of Hydrological Processes of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Dmitry Ilyich Frey, was awarded the Moscow Government Young Scientist Prize for 2023 in the Earth Sciences category for his work "Study of the deep circulation of the World Ocean from Antarctica to the Arctic seas of Russia and its influence on the Earth’s climate".

Dear colleagues, We congratulate the employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on its birthday - the establishment of the Institute of Oceanology through the reorganization of the Laboratory of Oceanology on January 31, 1946, headed by Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Minister of the Navy of the USSR, Academician Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov.

Tamara Shiganova

Chief Researcher
DSc (Biological Sciences)

Laboratory of Plankton Communities Structure and Dynamics
Marine Ecology

This year, employees of Zenkovich Laboratory of the Sea Shelf and Coasts completed instrumental monitoring of the accumulative relief of the coastal zone in the Baltic Spit section, where 11 series of measurements have been carried out since 2019.

Mikhail Krinitsky, senior researcher of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the Laboratory of Machine Learning in Geosciences at MIPT, at the Congress of Young Scientists 2023, as part of a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, discussed global warming and the perception of artificial intelligence methods both among Russian scientists and in international arena.

An employee of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS, together with colleagues from Latvia and Luxembourg, obtained interesting results when revising inclusions in Baltic amber.

One of the most surprising properties of ocean water is the close relationship between temperature and salinity, with vertical profiles of temperature and salinity measured over hundreds or even thousands of kilometers showing a similar relationship between temperature and salinity.

From November 13 to 17, 2023, the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the XXV International Scientific Conference (School) on Marine Geology, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founder of the School, Academician Alexander Petrovich Lisitzin.

On November 14, a meeting of members of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held at the Russian Academy of Sciences, during which the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Gennady Krasnikov, awarded young scientists and university students who became laureates of RAS medals following the 2022 competition. The IO RAS employees D.I. Glukhovets and E.S. Tsukanova received the RAS medals.

A new article by an international team of paleontologists with the participation of a senior researcher at the Atlantic Branch of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Eduard Mychko, reports on the discovery of a fossil hermit crab in mid-Cretaceous (110 million years) deposits of the Vladimir region.