News of the Institute
Monday, 20 March 2023 13:01
Alexander Moiseevich Gorodnitsky is 90 years old!
March 20 marks the 90th anniversary of the leading Russian scientist in the field of geology and geophysics of the ocean - chief researcher of the Laboratory of Geophysical Fields of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor, Academician…
Monday, 20 February 2023 18:48
IO RAS scientists discover previously unknown near-bottom currents in the Atlantic Ocean
Russian scientists from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have discovered near-bottom currents of Antarctic bottom water in the equatorial part of the Atlantic Ocean. These currents fill the deepest depressions in this region with depths of more than 7800…
Wednesday, 15 February 2023 18:03
The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences presented the medals of the Russian Academy of Sciences to Irina Aleksandrovna Migdisova and Dmitry Ilyich Frey
On February 7, 2023, a meeting dedicated to the Day of Russian Science was held in the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. During the meeting, a ceremony was held for the solemn awarding of medals of the Russian Academy of…
Friday, 10 February 2023 13:24
The President presented awards in the field of science and innovation to young scientists
On the Day of Russian Science, Vladimir Putin presented awards in the field of science and innovation for young scientists for 2022. Alexander Osadchiev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is among those…
Monday, 06 February 2023 13:35
Igor Medvedev was awarded the Moscow Government Prize for Young Scientists
On January 18, 2023, on the eve of Science Day, the names of the young scientists who won the competition for the Moscow Government Prizes for young scientists in 2022 were announced. Head of S.L. Soloviev Tsunami Laboratory of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS PhD (Physical and…
Monday, 26 December 2022 17:56
63rd voyage of PS Akademik Ioffe to the eastern tropical Atlantic
The 63rd voyage of PS Akademik Ioffe to the eastern tropical Atlantic (September 29, 2022 – December 7, 2022) has ended. The expedition was organized by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, with the participation of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow…
Friday, 16 December 2022 11:03
Complex of coastal observations in the equatorial Amazon
The 52nd voyage of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov started on October 17, 2022. On November 21, the Brazilian phase of research work began. A detachment of coastal observations was created from 4 specialists from the IO RAS, who have solid experience in working in new…
Monday, 12 December 2022 09:26
About the carbon polygons project
Today, 17 carbon polygons operate in different regions of the Russian Federation. The Institute of Oceanology is the operator of one of these polygons based on the Southern Branch in Gelendzhik: 7 ha + 4 ha + connection of a 15 ha + 12 km…
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…
