Research

The government plans to allocate UAH 557.6 million for conducting scientific research at the Antarctic station “Akademik Vernadskyi”. This became known from the draft bill on the state budget-2025. In particular, the explanatory note to the draft law states that among the main priorities of supporting the implementation of scientific and scientific and technical activities…

Shipping, which began with primitive rafts, has today turned into a high-tech industry capable of overcoming the most extreme conditions. However, most of the ocean is still unexplored, and extreme temperatures near the poles force us to look for new solutions. What challenges are facing shipping in the new era, what ambitious projects can change the future of sea travel and how all this is connected with Saturn’s moon – read in the USM article.

It was possible to record the sounds of rare Antarctic whales from aboard the research vessel “Noosfera”.

The National Antarctic Science Center (NASC) has joined the POLARIN project, which involves the unification of 64 research infrastructures in the Arctic and Antarctic.

In Odesa, the icebreaker James Clark Ross, bought in the UK, and the research vessel Belgica, donated to Ukraine by Belgium, were renamed.

National Antarctic Scientific Center (NASC) of Ukraine and Malaysian Foundation for Antarctic Research named after Sultan Mizan intend to conduct joint scientific research. On October 26th, the parties signed a corresponding memorandum. This happened during the opening in Malaysia of the international conference “The Significance of the Earth’s Polar Regions in the Current Climate Crisis”….

The research vessel “Belgica” left the port of Zeebrugge and headed for Odesa.

Ukraine received from Belgium the research vessel Belgica, which will help strengthen environmental monitoring of the Black and Azov Seas.