The POI FEB RAS was established in 1973. The great merit in creating and developing the Institute, forming its main research priorities belongs to Academician Victor V. Il'ichev.
 

Comprehensive hydrophysical, hydrochemical and hydrobiological studies of water masses in seas and oceans, their physical fields (acoustic, optical, electromagnetic, temperature), some parameters (sea wave, ocean currents, vortices, internal waves, ice cover, etc.) energy-mass exchange and the interaction of the ocean and atmosphere, marine ecosystems state;
Studies of geology, geophysics and geochemistry of the Pacific Ocean and its mineral resources;
Development of new methods and creation of technical means to study the ocean and atmosphere, development and application of the remote control methods, creation and analysis of the oceanography data bases.
 

V.I.Il`ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute,
43, Baltiyskaya Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
Phone: +7 (4232) 31-14-00, fax: +7 (4232) 312-573
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