Full Programme

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Online sessions and events

• Special session on the UN decade of Science for Sustainable Development;

• World Association of Marine Stations (WAMS): special session on marine stations as platforms for international research and collaboration and a role of WAMS in facilitating it;

• Biological fouling beneath the photic depths - cross-cutting research opportunities;

• Fieldwork training and qualification qualification courses for marine mammal specialists - from observing to tagging to rescue;

• TBC.

Science sessions (in-person)

1. Oceanology

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• The state of the marine environment: current knowledge and future challenges;

• Structure, transport and transformations of the water masses in the World Ocean;

• Remote technologies of marine research;

• Latest updates from expeditions and fieldwork;

• Modelling in the ocean sciences.

2. Hydrology

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• The state of the Water resources in the Russian Federation;

• Water quality assessments in the marine environment;

• Research methods in hydrology, hydrogeochemistry, water physics and biology;

• Evolution and development of aquatic ecosystems;

• The lakes in the northern regions and greenhouse gases.

 3. Marine Geology

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• Gases and gas hydrates in marine sediments;

• Underwater mass transport processes;

• Mud volcanoes;

• Glacial and periglacial continental margins;

• Sedimentary systems of the Modern Ocean;

• Marine mineral resources.

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4. Hydrographic and Geophysical Surveys in aquatic systems

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• Advances in methods in marine geophysics and hydrography;

• Data quality control and processing;

• Results and interpretation; 

• Project management in science and research;

• Results interpretation;

• Integrated fundamental and industrial projects;

• Educational programs.

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5. Marine Biology

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• Biodiversity of marine ecosystems;

• Functional structure of the marine habitats;

• Morphology, anatomy and physiology of marine organisms;

• Biodiversity and ecosystems of the relict coastal lakes;

• Modern methods in marine biology;

• Embryophytes, algae and mycophyta research;

• Developmental biology and life cycles.

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6. Sustainable management, Conservation and Environmental Protection

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• Impacts of human activities on marine ecosystems;

• Integrated coastal management;

• Marine Protected Areas (MPA) establishment and operation;

• Aquacultures – development and maintenance;

• Legal aspects of marine resource management.

7. Underwater cultural heritage

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• Approaches and research methods;

• Education and training;

• Challenges of scuba- diving as a sampling technique.

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8. Special session towards United Nations Decade of Ocean science for sustainable development (2021-2030) and the IOC of UNESCO 60th birthday.

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9. Session «Science outreach in cinematography»

Round table meetings (in-person)

• Antarctic bottom water circulation;

• Dangerous and catastrophic geological and hydrological processes of the past and present;

• Sub-aquatic natural gas hydrates;

• Geology of the marine and lake periglacial basins and their modern analogues;

• Development of hardware and software for hydro and seismic acoustic systems;

• Determination and mapping of benthic communities;

• Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): implications for the studies of the marine ecosystems dynamics; platforms for scientific collaboration; challenges and management

• Challenges in the regulation of the scientific diving activities;

• Overview of marine offshore stationary stations. The development of international cooperation;

• «In honour of 75th anniversary of Professor Mikhail Ivanov».