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Ecosystems of Siberian Arctic Seas–2020: The Kara Sea (Cruise 81 of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh)

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Cruise 81 of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh was organized by Shirshov Institute of Oceanology and took place from August 27 to September 25, 2020 under the Program “Marine Ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic.” Participants included 76 scientists from the institutes of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, VNIRO, and the NRC Kurchatov Institute and specialists from the Emergency Situations Ministry. Coordinated hydrophysical, hydrochemical, biooceanological, geochemical, and radioecological research was carried out over the Kara Sea, on the shelf near the St. Anna Trough, the continental slope, the Novaya Zemlya depression, and bays of the eastern coast of Novaya Zemlya. The condition of disposed radioactive waste in bays of the archipelago was assessed.

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Expeditionary studies were carried out with financial support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (targeted funding for marine expeditionary research); state task topic nos. 0149-2019-0008, 0149-2019-0011, AAAA-A18-118021590116-9; the Russian Foundation for Basic Research “Arctic” project nos. 18-05-60053, 18-05-60069, 18-05-60070, 18-05-60228, 18-05-60246, 18-05-60302, for studying key processes in Russian Arctic ecosystems.

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Flint, M.V., Poyarkov, S.G., Rimsky-Korsakov, N.A. et al. Ecosystems of Siberian Arctic Seas–2020: The Kara Sea (Cruise 81 of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh). Oceanology 61, 292–294 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437021020041

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