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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
VLADIVOSTOK, July 23 (Xinhua) — A ceremony to mark the launch of a Chinese-Russian scientific expedition to the Bering Sea and the northwestern Pacific Ocean was held here on Tuesday.
An expedition on the research vessel /NIS/ “Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev” departs from Vladivostok on Wednesday. Scientists from the V.I. Ilychev Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences /POI FEB RAS/ and the First Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China /PIO MNR/ will conduct research in the Bering Sea and the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean for 45 days.
Acting Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Vladivostok Wang Jun delivered a speech at the ceremony. According to him, the joint scientific expedition will focus on paleoceanography, paleoclimatology and ecosystem studies. The results will help humanity better understand the patterns of climate evolution in the Arctic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, and provide a key scientific basis for predicting future environmental changes. He noted that against the backdrop of deepening economic globalization and regional integration, the resumption of Sino-Russian scientific expeditions demonstrates the shared responsibility of the two countries in addressing global climate change and exploring cutting-edge marine science.
Director of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Denis Makarov emphasized that this voyage of the research vessel Akademik M. A. Lavrentyev will be the first after more than three years of modernization of the vessel. This is also the first expedition of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the PIO MNR after the forced break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is important for increasing cooperation between the two parties.
The general management of the expedition is carried out by Alexander Anatolyevich Bosin, leading researcher of the laboratory of paleoceanology and paleoclimatology of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The co-leader from the Chinese side is Zou Jianjun, leading researcher of the laboratory of marine geology and geophysics of the PIO MPR. The expedition includes 25 scientists, including five from China.
The expedition will collect samples of bottom sediments, volcanic ash, zoo- and phytoplankton in the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. In the ship's laboratories, scientists will conduct research to assess the degree of response of the marine environment to past and current climate changes, including those associated with growing economic activity in the region. –0–
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