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Experimental Branch, Katsiveli, Crimea
Aleksandr Kuznetsov- Head of Experimental Branch
Staff consists of 67 specialists including one Ph.D. and three
Ph.Sciences.
The structure ED MHI is the following:
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scientific department of complex methods of research of
oceanographic fields,
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sea technical department,
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operating-technical and maintenance departments.
Since 2001 Experimental Branch is headed by A.S. Kuznetsov, Ph.Sciences
- a high qualified specialist in development and introduction of new
information technologies in the field of experimental physical
oceanography.
The leader of the experimental researches is S.G. Boguslavsky, Ph.D.
– a world-wide known high qualified scientist in the field of the
theory of global climate and diffusion theory, Laureate of the State
Premium of the USSR (1970) for the researches of the Tropical
Atlantic currents and discovery of the Lomonosov current.
S.I. Kazakov, Ph.Science, is a qualified specialist in the field of
the Black Sea water circulation and climatic changes of the Black
Sea level.
Experimental Branch is a base for summer practical works of the
students of marine specialties of the leading universities of
Ukraine and Russia.
History
On the initiative of the academician V.V.Shuleikin on April 10,
1929 the first in the world marine (on the Black Sea ) hydrophysical
station (BSHS) was founded. It began to work in June in the village
Katsiveli, Yalta region. The hopes of the founder of BSHS came true -
the station permitted to study the sea phenomena not episodically but
continuously, i.e. all the year round. Favorable conditions on the
coast of the open sea permitted to observe thermal phenomena in the
coastal region and to reveal their relations with the atmospheric
phenomena above the sea. The results of field researches formed a
basis of modern theory of heat balance of seas and oceans. Stationary
observations of hydrophysical processes, in situ and laboratory
experiments on the cape Kikineiz permitted to study heat, dynamic,
optical and other processes in the sea. Due to the activity of V.V.
Shuleikin physics of sea became a scientific branch of study of a
whole set of physical processes in seas and oceans. The results of
researches on sea dynamics, heat and optics performed in 1934 were
generalized by V.V. Shuleikin in the monograph «Physics of sea», v.1,
and the results of researches on sea acoustics, molecular physics,
biophysics and technical physics carried out in 1938 – in the
monograph «Physics of sea», v.2. Since 1938 BSHS extended its
possibilities in systematic researches of the Black Sea due to the
expeditionary vessel «Yuly Shokalsky», displacement is 65 tons.
During the Great Patriotic War BSHS and its staff were evacuated to
Kazan . In 1942 scientific activity of V.V. Shuleikin was highly
appreciated – he was awarded the State Premium of the USSR . In 1944
the staff of BSHS returned to Katsiveli with the laboratory equipment
and continued their studies. After the war the sea light field, heat
and dynamic interaction in the ocean-atmosphere-land system,
currents, electromagnetic phenomena, wind waving were investigated.
In 1953 a circular aero-hydrodynamic channel (storm basin) was built.
The experiments in the storm basin permitted V.V. Shuleikin to
develop the theory of sea wind waving and drift currents represented
in the monograph «Theory of sea waves» in 1965.
In 1948 the Marine Hydrophysical Institute was
formed and BSHS became the Black Sea department of Marine Hydrophysical
Institute. All
subsequent scientific activity of BSD MHI is inseparable from Marine Hydrophysical
Institute. In
1981 BSD MHI was renamed in the Experimental Department of Marine Hydrophysical
Institute (ED MHI).
Due to close scientific relations with the basic organizations –
Marine Hydrophysical Institute and Oceanological Center of NAS of
Ukraine, ED MHI steadily develops as a regional marine polygon for
physical-climatic and ecological observations.
In 1982 a stationary oceanographic platform was built. Since then
both domestic and joint international field experiments in various
spheres of sea physics and applied oceanography are regularly
conducted. In 2003 the station of measurement of the Black Sea level
in ED MHI was included in the uniform European observing system the
European Sea Level Service (ESEAS).
more information
Basic scientific and technical directions
 Providing
of the institutes of the Oceanological Center of NAS of Ukraine with
regular field observations and experimental base in the recreation
zone and main sea transport passage of Ukraine nearby the South coast
of the Crimea for developing the system of geo-ecological monitoring
of waters in the shelf, coastal and surf areas;
On
the basis of the sea experimental polygon, development and
introduction of new technologies of control of environment, biota,
water dynamics and bottom alluvium conditions;
Development
of scientific and technical base of the operative network of
geo-ecological monitoring including the stationary oceanographic
platform, means of small-size scientific vessels, hydrographical and
hydrometeorological posts;
Creation
and development of a sub-regional sea scientific-information center
of data collection and exchange in the network of the Black Sea
global observing system;
Scientific perspectives
1. Geological and hydrographical researches aimed at formation in
Katsiveli of the system of complex monitoring of sea level
fluctuations and the earth's crust vertical motions of the Crimean
South coast adapted to the uniform European network of sea level
monitoring ( ESEAS-RI ).
2. Development of a system of remote hydrological and acoustic
monitoring of the Black Sea northern part adjacent to the Kerch
strait.
3. Formation and treatment of information resources (databases and
knowledge) providing scientific researches and applied marine
activity with information products on marine environmental conditions
in taking solutions in the whole complex of economical and
nature-management problems of Large Yalta and the Crimean South
coast.
4. Development of the base structure of the sea polygon for
physical-climatic and ecological observations taking into account
regional peculiarities in the land-sea coupling zone;
5. Development of conception and strategy of constructing modern sea
observing system (control and calibration polygon) aimed at providing
uniformity of direct and remote measurements.
For further information please contact:
Experimental Branch, Katsiveli, Crimea
9, Academician V.V. Shuleikin St., village Katsiveli, Simeiz,
Crimea, 98688, Ukraine
Phone: 380-654-237071
fax: 380-654-237094
E-mail: edmhi@ukr.net
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