The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) RAN, Russian: Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт океанологии имени П. П. Ширшова Российской академии наук (ИО РАН) or Институт океанологии им. П. П. Ширшова РАН) is the premier research institution for ocean, climate, and earth science in Russia. It was established in 1946 and is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is headquartered in Moscow. The institute is named after Pyotr Shirshov, who founded it in 1946.
Notable past or present researchers
Biologists
- Igor Akimushkin (d. 1993)
Climate scientists
Mathematicians
- Grigory Barenblatt (d. 2018)
- Andrei Monin, Director of the Institute 1965-1987 (d. 2007)[2]
Physical oceanographers
- Leonid Brekhovskikh (d. 2005)[3]
- Vladimir Shtokman (d. 1968)
Others
- Anatoly Sagalevich, explorer and pilot of the MIR submersible to the seabed under the North Pole (the Arktika 2007 project)
- Alexander Gorodnitsky, poet and geologist
Fleet
- RV Akademik Ioffe (ru:Академик Иоффе (судно))
- RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov
- RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
- RV Professor Shtokman (ru:Профессор Штокман (судно))
- RV Rift
- RV Akvanaft
- MIR (submersible)
- RV Vityaz - not active since 1979; now a museum in Kaliningrad.
See also
References
- ↑ Galey, Patrick (16 July 2020). "Siberia Heat 'Almost Impossible' Without Climate Change". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ↑ "A.S. Monin". Russian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ↑ Mikhalevsky, P; Godin, O; Naugolnykh, K; Dubrovsky, N (2005). "Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh". Physics Today. 58 (11): 70. Bibcode:2005PhT....58k..70M. doi:10.1063/1.2155769.
External links
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