Head: Dr. Alexander Polukhin
Marine  Ecology Department

The main directions of study:

Chemical components of aquatic ecosystems; dynamics of nutrients.
Transport and transformation of nutrients at interfaces in marine environment.
Electronic data bases and atlases on regional hydrology and hydrochemistry.
Comprehensive hydrochemical analyses of natural waters and sediments.
Creation and maintenance of the autonomous seafloor station for registering chemical exchanges on the water-bottom interface.
CO₂ cycles in the ocean – atmosphere system at present and in the geological past of the Earth.