From September 26 to September 30, 2022, The Seas of Russia: Challenges of the National Science All-Russian Scientific Conference was held in Sevastopol, physically based in the Marine Hydrophysical Institute.
The aim of the Conference was to improve the coordination of marine research programs, advance sea state monitoring systems, develop scientific potential, optimize planning of maritime space, and reduce maritime risks to improve the management of resources in marine and coastal zones.
The Conference was organized in the form of plenary, sectional and poster presentations in the following areas – Processes of the Marine Environment Formation and Evolution: from Research to Forecasting; Marine Observing Systems: Methods, Means and Results; Safe Use and Exploration of the Marine Environment Resources.
The Seas of Russia-2022 Conference was attended by 158 ocean scientists from the Russian Federation, representing 67 scientific and research organizations.
During the plenary sessions, 9 reports were presented by leading experts in the field of theoretical and experimental studies of dynamics and thermodynamics of the Russian seas, study of the atmosphere and ocean interaction, analysis of biogeochemical cycles in the marine environment, description of coastal dynamics in the Arctic region, as well as by the members of the scientific and expert council of the Marine Board under the Government of the Russian Federation and representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense (Naval Command-in-Chief). As part of the work of three sections, 84 reports were made.
The conference participants noted high scientific level of the reports and applied significance of the presented research, wide interest of scientists in the conference topics, significant potential of scientific organizations of the Russian Federation in studying the problems of the World Ocean.
According to the results of the competition for the best report among young scientists, the winners were: Andrey Sebin (Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University) – the best oral presentation in the Processes of the Marine Environment Formation and Evolution: from Research to Forecasting section on the use of small ice experimental basins in icebreaking research; Ilya Kopyshov (MHI, Sevastopol) – Marine Observing Systems: Methods, Means and Results section, topic of the report – Investigation of Short-Period Internal Waves in the Kara Strait in the Summer Period according to In Situ Data; Vasilina Medvedeva (World Ocean Museum, Kaliningrad) – the best presentation in the Safe Use and Exploration of the Marine Environment Resources section, topic of the report – Problems of Representation of Natural Processes in the Expositions of Natural Science Museums. Among the poster session presentations, the report of Valentina Rubakina (MHI, Sevastopol) was recognized as the best one – Daily Variation in the Temperature of the Near-Surface Water Layer and its Effect on the Heating of Deep Layers according to the Results of Calculating a POM One-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Model.
For the conference participants, an excursion was organized to the unique Sevastopol Konstantinovskaya Battery open-air museum, in the casemates of which a historical exposition reflecting the role of the Konstantinovskaya fortress during the First Defense of the city and during the Great Patriotic War, is open to the public.
During the final plenary session, Sergey Konovalov, Director of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that such conferences as The Seas of Russia contribute to the formation of the scientific community: “These conferences have another very important component. You not only share your results. Here, interactions among different scientific organizations and teams are discussed and built. You get to know each other, understand the scope of research and the level, at which these studies are carried out. At such conferences the scientific society of Russia is built. This is great and important”.
The conference was organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Section of Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics and Geography of the Department of Earth Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Research Center Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conference was held under the aegis of the Marine Board under the Government of the Russian Federation with the information support of the World Ocean Museum and the Russian Arctic scientific journal.