Established 1953 Location Odessa, Ukraine | Head Borys Aleksandrov Founded 1953 | |
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Address 37, Pushkinska St., 65011 Odessa, Ukraine | ||
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The Institute of Marine Biology is a research institute of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, which located in Odessa, Ukraine. The institute is organized on the base of the Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas.
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History
The institute was established in December 21, 1953 as the Odessa Biological Station of the Institute of hydrobiology of the National Academys of Sciences of Ukraine by the resolution of the Councel of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. When the Sevastopol Biological Station was reorganised in the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas in 1963, the Biological Station in Odessa was also reorganised in the Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas by the special resolution № 796 at June 11, 1963. During the long period (1953-1963), the head of the biological station, and then the head of the branch, was professor Konstantin Vinogradov. Later, from 1972 to 1989 Professor Yuvenali Zaitsev was the head of the branch. During 1989-1994 the branch was ruled by geographer, Professor Oleksandr Bronfman, but Yuvenali Zaitsev started to be the most famous researcher of the institute. Since 1994 professor Borys Aleksandrov is the head of the institute.
The Odessa branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas was reorganized into the Institute of Marine Biology by the resolution #161 of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, dated July 2, 2014. The resolution started to be valued from August 2, 2014.
The scientific direction
The main scientific direction of the institute is the complex study of the different approaches of biology and ecology of marine ecosystems. Among them:
The institute elaborates the modern methods of the sampling and processing of the hydrobiological samples, new methods of the analyzing of the scientific information. The institute provides the scientific expertise, improves the methods of protection and management of ecosystems and its sustainable development. The Institute provides training of scientific personnel by the post-graduate and post-doc studies on the hydrobiological and zoological specialisations.