Northern seas expedition will make Arctic exploration safer

2019-08-27
Alexey Orlov, a researcher at the TSU Biological Institute and chief research fellow at the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), is leading a transarctic expedition across four northern seas. The scientific group, which includes ichthyologists, oceanologists, geneticists, hydrobiologists, and hydrochemists of the central apparatus of VNIRO, its Pacific and polar branches, is conducting comprehensive studies of aquatic biological resources in the Chukchi, East Siberian, Kara, and Laptev Seas. The data obtained by the transarctic expedition will help in assessing the state of marine ecosystems and developing the right approach to reduce anthropogenic risks in the development of the richest resources of the Arctic basin.

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