| The Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
(IO-PAS) was founded in 1983 as the successor to the Marine Station
of the Academy in existence in Sopot since 1953. The Institute
mission is to generate the knowledge to support the sustainable use
and protection of the marine environment through innovative,
high-level scientific and technological research that significantly
adds to the knowledge and understanding of the environment, and
provides information and technology for its clients. The Institute's
clients are Polish and international users of marine science and
technology, the Polish community, governmental agencies, policy
makers, educators and students.
The Institute of Oceanology conducts scientific research in the
shelf seas and coastal regions including the Baltic and European
Arctic Seas.
Strategic Directions of IO PAS Research:
Role of the oceans in climate change and its effects for the
European Seas; climate forming oceanographic phenomena including
heat and salt fluxes and its variability in the Nordic Seas; mass
and heat exchange between sea and atmosphere,; observation and
modelling of radiation fluxes in the sea - atmosphere system;
mesoscale structures; water mass formation and internal waves;
energetics of primary production; climate induced changes in the
marine food web; biodiversity of glaciated fjords along
environmental gradients
Natural and antropogenic variability of the Baltic Sea
environment; exchange of water masses in the Baltic Sea; monitoring
of the Baltic Sea ecosystem using passive remote sensing methods;
geochemistry and geochronology of organic matter in the Baltic Sea;
speciation of heavy metals in sediment and water; accumulation and
distribution of natural and artificial radionuclides in marine
organisms, sediments and water; analytical and numerical
investigations of sound scattering by aggregations; sound detection
of gas bubble concentrations in sea water.
Contemporary changes of the coastal ecosystems in the shelf seas;
pelago-benthic coupling and sedimentation rates in coastal waters;
numerical modelling of water circulation in coastal zone; sandy
littoral ecology within the Integrated Coastal Management System.
Genetic and physiological mechanisms of functioning marine
organisms; principles of marine biotechnology; genetic and
endocrinological mechanisms in marine fish and invertebrates;
genetic polymorphism of some marine and fresh water species with the
application of molecular markers; biological role of bacterial
bioluminescence in the marine environment.
Powstancow Warszawy 55
81-712 Sopot
Poland, P.O. Box 68
Phone: (+48 58) 551 72 81
Fax: (+48 58) 551 21 30 |
