Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Coordinates: 59°56′47.5″N 30°14′0″E / 59.946528°N 30.23333°E / 59.946528; 30.23333
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Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
Other nameRussian: Арктический и антарктический научно-исследовательский институт
Established3 March 1920 (1920-03-03)
FocusResearch into the Arctic and Antarctica
OwnerFederal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment
Formerly called
  • Northern Research and Trade Expedition
  • Institute of Northern Studies
  • All-Union Arctic Institute
Location
Saint Petersburg
,
Russia
Websitewww.aari.ru/main.php?lg=1&id=271 and www.aari.ru/main.php

The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, or AARI (Russian: Арктический и антарктический научно-исследовательский институт, romanized: Arkticheskiy i antarkticheskiy nauchno-issledovatelskiy institut, abbreviated as ААНИИ) is the oldest and largest Russian research institute in the field of comprehensive studies of Arctic and Antarctica. It is located in Saint Petersburg.

The AARI has numerous departments, such as those of oceanography, glaciology, meteorology, hydrology or Arctic river mouths and water resources, geophysics, polar geography, and others. It also has a computer center, ice research laboratory, experimental workshops, and a museum (the Arctic and Antarctic Museum).

Scientists, such as

Nikolai Urvantsev, and Yakov Gakkel
have all made contributions to the work of the AARI.

Throughout its history, the AARI has organized more than a thousand Arctic expeditions, including dozens of high-latitude aerial expeditions, which transported 34(?) manned

drifting ice stations Severniy Polyus ("Северный полюс", or North Pole) to Central Arctic.[1] In 2019-2020 Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute joined a biggest in history Arctic expedition MOSAiC,[2] where its scientists were primarily invlolved into measurements of sea ice mechanics and seismics.[3]

History

The AARI was founded on 3 March 1920 as the Northern Research and Trade Expedition (Северная научно-промысловая экспедиция) under the Scientific and Technical Department of the

Ministry of Geology of the USSR
.

In 1955, the AARI participated in the organization of Antarctic research. In 1958, it began to organize and lead all of the Soviet Antarctic expeditions, which would later make geographic discoveries, and in the same year the

Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia). In 1967, AARI was awarded the Order of Lenin
.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Drift ice stations are Russian tradition".
  2. ^ "Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)".
  3. ISSN 0555-2648
    .

External links

59°56′47.5″N 30°14′0″E / 59.946528°N 30.23333°E / 59.946528; 30.23333

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