Institute record of Institute of Oceanology

Information

Type

Organization

Type

https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types

Name

Institute of Oceanology

Name

Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk@pl

Acronym

PAN-IOPAN

Parent institute

Polish Academy of Sciences

Address

str. Pwstancow Warszawy 55, 81-712 Sopot, Poland

Contact numbers

Telephone

+48-(0)58-551 72 81

Fax

+48-(0)58-551 21 30

Email

office@iopan.gda.pl

Location

latitude

54.4506771

longitude

18.5636439

Description @en

(1) Role of oceans in climate change and its effects for the European Seas: climate forming 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. (2) 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. (3) 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.