Department of Oceanology and Geography

G.G. Matishov
 Dr (Geography) 
Academician RAS
Head of Department 
Scientific Leader of SSC RAS

OBJECTIVE

✓ Basic, survey, and applied studies within the Earth Sciences focusing on the issues of environmental safety and security and sustainable development of the Souther Macro-Region.

RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

✓ Currently, the activities of the Department focus on a series of large research problems of vital significance for the South of Russia, such as status and conditions of aquatic environment, climate, shipping and navigation safety and security, etc.;

✓ An important direction is studies on the conditions and dynamics of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems of arid and semiarid territories of the south of European Russia, which cover water areas and basins of the Sea of Azov, Black and Caspian seas. The paleo-reconstruction of events in the Late Pleistocene is made, which allows predicting short-term and long-term climatic and geoecological changes of the environment;

✓ Based on Large Marine Ecosystems concept methodological approaches, developed by G.G. Matishov, Academician RAS, jointly with foreign colleagues, an innovation system methodology to cope with the challenges of sustainable nature exploitation in the South of Russia within large integrated naturemanmade systems is developed under the conditions of climatic changes, anthropogenic pollution increase, and economic activities intensification. Scientific grounds are developed for the environmental safety and sustainability of the Southern Macro-Region under the conditions of maritime transport intensification, offshore oil and gas fields’ exploration, and extraction of bio-resources during the current geopolitical challenges.