News of the Institute
Monday, 12 December 2022 08:52
Expedition to Matveev Island in the Pechersk Sea
Scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with employees of the Nenetsky State Nature Reserve, managed to conduct unique bioacoustic work on a walrus rookery in the Pechora Sea. For the first time, Russian specialists have been able to…
Monday, 05 December 2022 15:56
Sailboat expeditions. To be continued
The 1st voyage on the schooner "Amazon" has ended. The expedition continues a series of voyages on sailing ships to remote areas of the World Ocean in order to study the stocks, biodiversity and evolution of oceanic plankton. In the current circumstances, sailing vessels allow…
Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:26
Scientists have figured out how life is distributed at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean
Scientists from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) RAS, for the first time in the world, have conducted a large-scale study of how life on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean changes with depth. This was reported on Friday in the press service of the…
Saturday, 22 October 2022 16:41
The 52nd voyage of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov
On October 17, 2022, the 52nd voyage of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov began, with a duration of 75 days. Research area: western tropical Atlantic. The head of the expedition is DSc E.G. Morozov. The purpose of the expedition: to study deep currents in the abyssal…
Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:59
Sub-Satellite Verification of Oil Shows Detected Based on Space Radar Data
Employees of the Ocean Optics Laboratory of the IO RAS Junior Researcher S.K. Klimenko and leading researcher A.Yu. Ivanov obtained interesting results on sub-satellite verification of natural oil shows detected as a result of satellite monitoring on the example of an oil show near the…
Wednesday, 05 October 2022 18:00
The 88th voyage of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh: passing expedition European Arctic 2022: geological record of environmental and climate change
From August 23 to September 04, 2022, a passing expedition on the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (the 88th voyage) took place to perform work on the topic: “The role of sedimentary matter of interacting geospheres in the sedimentation of the European Arctic and Subarctic under…
Monday, 03 October 2022 18:11
The 89th voyage (stage 1) of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh: a unique climate experiment using the Tu-134 Optik laboratory aircraft
On September 18, 2022, the 1st stage of the 89th voyage of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh to the Kara Sea with associated work in the southern part of the Barents Sea was completed in the port of Murmansk. Expedition "Ecosystems of the Seas of…
Friday, 26 August 2022 17:00
53rd voyage of the RV Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov
The Geological Institute of RAS organized and conducted the 53rd voyage of the RV Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov from July 7 to August 15, 2022 in the North Atlantic. Port of exit - Kaliningrad, port of arrival - St. Petersburg. The purpose of the expedition is…
Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:56
Employees of the North-Western Branch of the Institute of Oceanology of RAS conducted research at the mouth of the Indiga River (Nenets Autonomous Okrug)
Within the framework of the grant project "Peculiarities of mesotidal mouths of the rivers of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation in the conditions of summer low water (on the example of the Indiga River in the Nenets Autonomous District)" in the period from…
Saturday, 06 August 2022 13:02
The 61st voyage of the Akademik Ioffe to the Baltic Sea. Preliminary results
The RV Akademik Ioffe has returned from the 61st scientific voyage across the Baltic Sea, which lasted 15 days from June 28 to July 12. Traditionally, the main task of oceanologists has been to study the state of the marine environment, which is not only…
Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:52
49th scientific voyage of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov
The 49th scientific voyage of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov, which was carried out from June 1 to June 23, 2022 (23 days) in the territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation in the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea, has…
Friday, 17 June 2022 13:09
Damchik expedition
From May 25 to June 2, 2022, employees of the IO RAS (researcher Khlebopashev P.V. (head of the expedition), junior researcher Borisenko G.V., chief specialist Zubarevich V.L., Laboratory of Biohydrochemistry, and Senior Researcher Sapozhnikov F.V., Laboratory of Ecology of Coastal and Bottom Communities) conducted research…
Wednesday, 15 June 2022 18:56
The scientific “Seminar of the Laboratory of Sea Currents” begins its work
Seminar Leader – Corresponding Member of RAS Vladimir Zhmur. At the seminar, it is planned to listen to scientific reports on oceanological and atmospheric topics, including working reports. Not only employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, but also any specialists in these topics…
Monday, 06 June 2022 18:35
Election results for new members of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced
Congratulations to the new Corresponding Members of the RAS: Aleksey Valentinovich Sokov, Doctor of Geography, Director of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS and Anatoly Alexandrovich Rodionov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS.
Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:37
Abkhaz expedition of the IO RAS
Expedition "Abkhazia-2022", dedicated to the study of small river plumes, was held from April 25 to May 1 under the leadership of DSc Alexander Osadchiev. This year, the expedition took place in the estuary zone of the Bzyb River, one of the two largest rivers…
Thursday, 05 May 2022 17:00
National Subscription
Access to Web of Science has been interrupted by the decision of the copyright holder. From May 1, 2022, access to the Web of Science database for organizations participating in the 2021 centralized subscription has been interrupted by decision of the copyright holder. Clarivate Analytics has shown…
Thursday, 05 May 2022 16:21
The For Women in Science International Awards - 2023
The Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation announces the opening of a competition for the International Prize within the framework of the UNESCO L'OREAL program "For Women in Science" - 2023. Based on the results of…
Tuesday, 19 April 2022 10:31
XXIV International Scientific Conference (School) on Marine Geology
From April 11 to 15, the XXIV International Scientific Conference (School) on Marine Geology in memory of Academician A.P. Lisitsyn is being held at the Institute. The geography of the School is as always extensive: from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vladivostok to Kaliningrad, from Murmansk to Rostov-on-Don…
Monday, 14 March 2022 10:47
The 60th expedition of the RV Akademik Ioffe - completion of research
The 2nd stage of the 60th voyage of the R/V Akademik Ioffe to the tropical Atlantic (December 22, 2021 – February 7, 2022) has been completed. The expedition was organized by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS with the participation of the Faculty of Geography…
Monday, 14 March 2022 10:21
The Nauchny Mir publishing house published the monograph "Geosystem of the Anapa bay-bar"
The Nauchny Mir publishing house, with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 21-15-00031), published the monograph "Geosystem of the Anapa bay-bar". The authors are employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Southern Branch):…
