Shirshov Institute of Oceanology

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 edit

Biologists edit

Igor Akimushkin (d. 1993)^{[citation needed]}

Climate scientists edit

Olga Zolina^[1]

Mathematicians edit

Grigory Barenblatt (d. 2018)^{[citation needed]}
Andrei Monin, Director of the Institute 1965-1987 (d. 2007)^[2]

Physical oceanographers edit

Leonid Brekhovskikh (d. 2005)^[3]
Vladimir Shtokman (d. 1968)^{[citation needed]}

Others edit

Anatoly Sagalevich, explorer and pilot of the MIR submersible to the seabed under the North Pole (the Arktika 2007 project)^{[citation needed]}
Alexander Gorodnitsky, poet and geologist^{[citation needed]}

Fleet edit

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.

References edit

^ 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.